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U.S. Senator · Connecticut
Christopher Murphy
DemocratState D+8119th Congress
Typical swing score44#49 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Christopher Murphy’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office136 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s state, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Republicans · 2 signals
- StrongBacks 21 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 21 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: S. 410, S. 1038, S. 1547, S. 1552, S. 1748 and 16 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 410 Love Lives On Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 1038 TRACE Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 1547 America the Beautiful Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 1552 Living Donor Protection Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 1748 Kids Online Safety Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: AUKUS Improvement Act of 2025
Term and election
From the congress-legislators dataset- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2031
- Senate class
- Class 1
- Seniority
- Junior senator
- Next election
- November 5, 2030
- Years in office
- 19.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Senate Committee on AppropriationsMinority · 9th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Department of Defense
- Subcommittee on Department of Homeland SecurityRanking Member
- Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
- Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
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Murphy← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.290 is 0.07 to the right of the Senate Democratic median (-0.356).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the Senate Democratic average- 119th Congress0Senate Democratic average: 0 (n=47)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 201–250 of 2038 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.Res. 227A resolution condemning Hamas for its premeditated, coordinated, and brutal terrorist attacks on October 7, 2023, against Israel and demanding that Hamas immediately release all remaining hostages and return them to safety, and for other purposes.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | No recorded vote | 49
| Middle |