Christopher Murphy
Democrat · CT · U.S. Senate
Bio
Christopher Scott Murphy is an American lawyer, author, and politician serving since 2013 as the junior United States senator from Connecticut. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 2007 to 2013 in the United States House of Representatives, representing Connecticut's 5th congressional district.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 19.6 years
- Chambers
- House 6y, Senate 13.6y
- First took office
- 2007 (6 terms)
- Seniority
- 28 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 53
- Senate class
- 1 · junior senator
- Senate Democratic Conference Deputy Secretary · 2025–present
- Hartford, CT · 860-549-8463
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $563k – $1.2M
- Liabilities
- $1.3M – $5.5M
- Net worth
- −$4.9M – −$5k
- Since 2018
- −$1.8M
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Christopher Murphy's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Christopher Murphy (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Murphysits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 29 members
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relationscenter · 22 members
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensionscenter · 23 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Murphy's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Senator Chris Murphy calls idea mass immigration is putting US at risk a 'fake problem'Democratic Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy called mass immigration putting the U.S. at risk, a "fake problem," but experts pushed back with crime data and deportation facts.
Fox News · Yesterday
ICE Accused of Arresting Parents at School Bus StopsFederal immigration agents have been arresting parents at school bus stops in a Connecticut town with a sizable immigrant community, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy has said. “This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops,” Murphy wro…
Biztoc.com · August 27, 2026
Trump’s ICE accused of ‘sinister’ plot to snatch parents at school bus stopsAn outraged Democratic senator announced Wednesday that he was heading directly to Danbury, Connecticut, after accusing federal immigration agents of targeting parents at school bus stops and deliberately waiting until their children were gone to make arrests…
Raw Story · August 26, 2026
'Sadistic and Cruel': Democratic Lawmakers Rail Against $20 Million for ICE's Electric Shock GlovesDemocrats in both chambers of Congress this week have joined rights advocates in forcefully denouncing plans for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to spend up to $20 million on "gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks."The Department of Homeland …
Common Dreams · August 13, 2026
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