CHRIS MURPHY

When President Joe Biden speaks about the “scourge” of gun violence, his go-to answer is to zero in on so-called assault weapons.

When President Joe Biden speaks about the “scourge” of gun violence, his go-to answer is to zero in on so-called assault weapons. America has heard it hundreds of times, including this week after shootings in Colorado and Virginia: The president wants to sign into law a ban on high-powered guns that have the capacity to kill many people very quickly. “I’m going to try to get rid of assault weapons.”

America is enduring a stretch of gun violence that spiked at the start of the pandemic and has yet to subside.

The midterm elections were a vindication for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who has racked up a series of unexpected legislative victories this year as he has navigated Democrats’ slim 50-50 majority.

Billionaire Twitter CEO Elon Musk endorsed Republicans in the midterm cycle on Monday, encouraging independent voters to cast their ballots to make a Republican Congress.

Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter has drawn the attention of the U.S. government because of potential national security risks.

Five days ahead of the midterm elections, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Val Demings made a stop in South Florida Thursday, holding an event to discuss gun violence.

The fallout of the OPEC Plus decision to cut oil production still smolders in Washington, where many interpreted it as an act to humiliate President Biden.

The White House is trying to tamp down the wave of criticism since President Biden made comments on a potential nuclear attack by Russia.

OPEC+'s plans to cut oil production is a "mistake" and there needs to be a re-evaluation of the alliance between the Saudis and the U.S. said a U.S. Senator.

The S&P 500 is on track to hit a winning streak not seen in at least two decades.

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy on Tuesday criticized Europe's overreliance on Russian energy and urged the region to start investing in alternate energy sources.

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz was heckled on a flight over gun control and school safety policies, prompting the senator to call the heckler "a partisan."

Senators Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., clashed on the Senate floor after the Connecticut Democrat blocked bringing Cruz's school safety bill up for a vote.

Senators Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., clashed on the Senate floor after the Connecticut Democrat blocked bringing Cruz's school safety bill up for a vote.

President Joe Biden’s request for $47 billion in emergency funding is getting a thumbs down from Republicans in Congress.

Victims of abuse and their families saw a quiet breakthrough this summer when a new bipartisan gun safety law made it more difficult for intimate partners convicted of domestic abuse to obtain firearms.

Monday, Aug. 8, 2022 I Season 4 of "sMothered" airs on TLC.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) received a warning early Sunday morning to follow the Senate’s decorum rules after he accused Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) of being “deceitful” and “dishonest” and vowed “we’re going to call you out.” “This gives phony and cynical a bad name,” Graham exclaimed when Hassan introduced her amendment. Graham’s outburst at Hassan…

Over five decades in Washington, Joe Biden knew that the way to influence was to be in the room where it happens.

The Party has an opportunity to seize the mantle as the defender of long-established individual rights.

One month into his presidency, Joe Biden made clear his distaste for even naming the man he'd ousted from the Oval Office.

The president's signing comes just over a month after the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 children and two adults.

On Thursday, a conservative majority struck down a hundred-and-eleven-year-old gun law restricting the ability to carry handguns outside of the home.

The bill passed the House on a mostly party-line 234-193 vote.

The measure is the biggest breakthrough in gun violence legislation in 30 years, despite is modest nature

The House has sent President Joe Biden the most wide-ranging gun violence bill Congress has passed in decades.

The first major gun legislation in nearly three decades would incentivize states to pass red flag laws and expand background checks for 18- to 21-year-olds, among other measures.

The Senate has approved a bipartisan gun violence bill.

Last month's mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, have produced a groundswell for change in Congress.

The bill would toughen background checks for the youngest firearms buyers, require more background checks and beef up penalties on gun traffickers.

The bill would toughen background checks for the youngest firearms buyers, require more background checks and beef up penalties on gun traffickers.

The bill would toughen background checks for the youngest firearms buyers, require more background checks and beef up penalties on gun traffickers.

The bill would incentivize states to pass red flag laws and expand background checks for 18- to 21-year-olds, among other measures. It's expected to have enough support to pass the Senate.

Senate bargainers have reached agreement on a bipartisan gun violence bill.

Democratic and Republican senators are at odds over how to keep firearms from dangerous people.

Negotiators left Washington on Thursday without coming to an agreement on key details underpinning a bipartisan deal on potential new federal gun laws. The impasse threatens to upend a handshake deal reached earlier this week.

His backing provided further evidence that the current round of gun-law negotiation might have sufficient GOP support to overcome a filibuster.

The Senate Republican leader said he will support the legislation if it reflects the framework crafted by a bipartisan group of senators.

Even skeptics were surprised by the scope of the compromise.

After years of stasis, even modest progress in Congress is welcome.

20 senators, including 10 Republicans, are calling for passage.

20 senators, including 10 Republicans, are calling for passage.

Conservatives on Capitol Hill are voicing some sharper objections to the measures.

Instead of raising the age, Murphy said there'll be "some provision that recognizes these 18 to 21-year-olds tend to be the mass shooters."

Ice cream maker calls on corporate America to stop bankrolling "elected officials who do the gun lobby's bidding."

Eleven years after her own life was massively altered by gun violence, former congresswoman Gabby Giffords stood in front of the Washington monument and once again lobbied for stricter gun laws after yet another string of mass shootings in America.

He and his wife visited Uvalde families after the shooting and showed mementos of the victims, as he told their stories to the White House press corps.

Negotiations have narrowed proposals to address school safety, standards for safe gun storage, federal support for mental health programs and incentives for states to create red flag laws.

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said he's hoping for a framework by the end of the week.

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said he's hoping for a framework by the end of the week.

The son of an 86-year-old woman killed in the racist Buffalo mass shooting is calling on Congress to act against domestic terrorism.

That would be enough to overcome any filibuster and send a bill to the floor. The Texas Republican is in a bipartisan group of senators negotiating a gun reform package.

A small bipartisan group of senators continues to work toward a deal that could include some new gun restrictions, but not the assault weapons ban or other measures President Biden called for in a national address.

Toomey, along with Sen. Joe Manchin, put forth legislation nearly a decade ago that would expand background checks.

Democrats facing difficult elections believe giving proposals one by one will raise the heat.

Ten years after Sandy Hook, the senator is once again trying for new gun laws after a school massacre. Will this time be different?

Less than 48 hours after a gunman stormed an elementary school and killed 19 children and two teachers in his home state of Texas, Sen. John Cornyn was tapped to lead gun policy negotiations in the Senate.

The bipartisan senators are making progress on new gun control legislation, four sources said.

The House measure would raise the age for purchasing semiautomatic centerfire rifles from 18 to 21 and ban large-capacity magazines.

The White House is looking to Congress for action.

Missed the second half of the show? The latest on background check measures with Senator Chris Murphy, gun control with U.S. Rep. Val Demings, reflecting on the desensitization of school shootings, and Parkland survivor and mother of Sandy Hook victim talk gun control.

A bipartisan group of senators has been discussing red flag laws, expanding the background check system, safe storage and security packages since the Uvalde shooting, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said.

The following is a transcript of an interview with Sen. Chris Murphy that aired on Sunday, May 29, 2022, on "Face the Nation."

He says he's seen more Republicans "coming to the table and talking this time" than at any other moment since the Sandy Hook shooting 10 years ago.

The U.S. energy secretary and Danish wind developer Orsted say they want American union workers to build offshore wind farms to dot the U.S. coastlines — the building trades workers who could otherwise be left out of a transition to renewable resources.

Marco Rubio and Rick Scott are not part of the bipartisan team trying to work on gun-reform legislation.

A bipartisan group of senators is considering how Congress should respond to the horrific shooting of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas.

A bipartisan group of senators is trying to find a compromise on gun legislation.

Senate GOP blocks domestic terrorism bill, gun policy debate.

Democrats in Congress are trying, again, to pass legislation to expand background checks for gun buyers in the wake of the shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

The United States’ top negotiator for Iran nuclear talks has made the case to lawmakers for sticking with Iran nuclear talks.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has quickly set in motion a pair of firearms background check bills in response to the school massacre in Texas.

Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy came to Congress representing Sandy Hook.

Abortion legislation that was rejected in a Senate test vote Wednesday would enshrine into federal law the landmark 1973 Roe v.

Democrats have spent years pledging to address the gun violence that plagues communities across the U.S. But a surge of mass shootings over the weekend served as a reminder of how little has been accomplished.

As members of the Ukrainian parliament visited Capitol Hill, pleading for wartime aid, an air raid siren suddenly blared.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip to Warsaw to thank Poland for taking in Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion is taking an unexpected turn.

A leading Democratic senator is calling out President Joe Biden to show “more urgency” to address gun violence by executive action, as the prospects of legislation on Capitol Hill to pass gun control reforms remain slim.

Congressional Democrats and Republicans are showing signs of support for providing $6.4 billion or more in aid to Ukraine and its European neighbors.

The U.S. Senate is considering a resolution in support of Ukraine’s independence while stopping short of legislation to impose sanctions on Russia.

U.S. Senate leaders from both parties have issued a joint statement signaling solidarity with an independent Ukraine.

The Biden administration says it has cancelled $130 million in military aid to Egypt over human rights concerns just three days after greenlighting a massive $2.5 billion arms sale to the country.

Two U.S. senators say they were denied access to parts of a federal prison in Connecticut while trying to examine conditions there.

The Biden administration has approved a massive $2.5 billion arms sale to Egypt despite ongoing concerns over human rights.

President Joe Biden has rallied European allies to pledge as one that they will take tough measures against Russia if it rolls troops into Ukraine.

Senate Democrats have defeated a bill by Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz that would have slammed sanctions on a Russian natural-gas pipeline to Germany.

Democrats are hoping that Congress is nearing the finish line in its seven-month trek on President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion social and environment package.

Republican and Democratic senators have edged back from a perilous standoff over lifting the nation’s borrowing cap.

The Senate has dodged a U.S. debt disaster by approving legislation to lift the federal limit on new borrowing by nearly a half-trillion dollars.

The Biden administration is releasing nearly $200 million in military aid to Egypt but will hold back millions more over human rights concerns.

U.S. officials say the evacuation of the American Embassy in Kabul has been completed and the U.S. flag lowered at the facility in Afghanistan's capital.

President Joe Biden says he stands “squarely behind” his decision for the U.S. to leave Afghanistan.

America’s top general says the United States could now face a rise in terrorist threats from a Taliban-run Afghanistan.

The Biden administration is encouraging Senate lawmakers to finally repeal an Iraq war authorization crafted when Saddam Hussein was still alive.

A Missouri hospital that had no people hospitalized with COVID-19 just two months ago is now dealing with an onslaught of patients.

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s scathing rebuke of the NCAA and its rules this week included suggestions on how college sports can be reformed to avoid being sued into oblivion.

The Senate will take a key vote next week on a sweeping rewrite of voting and election law, setting up a dramatic test of Democratic unity on a top priority that Republicans are vowing to block.

The Biden administration is laying the groundwork for a renewed push to encourage more Arab countries to sign accords with Israel, and working to strengthen existing deals.

The Biden administration is laying the groundwork for a renewed push to encourage more Arab countries to sign accords with Israel, and working to strengthen existing deals.