Press Releases
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January 11, 2015
Blumenthal Statement On Selection Of Sarah Feinberg As Interim Administrator Of Federal Railroad Administration
(Hartford, CT) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today released the following statement after U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx announced to... Continue Reading -
January 05, 2015
Blumenthal Urges Kerry To Make Every Effort To Secure Release Of Amir Hekmati, Other American Citizens Detained By Iran
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today wrote to Secretary of State John Kerry to urge the State Department to make every possible effort to... Continue Reading -
December 19, 2014
Blumenthal, DeLauro, Courtney, Himes, Esty, 15 Senators and Representatives Call for Increased Consumer Protections in Medicare Advantage Plans
(Hartford, CT) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and U.S. Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), Joe Courtney (D-Conn.), Jim Himes (D-Conn.) and Elizabeth... Continue Reading -
December 18, 2014
Blumenthal Applauds CFPB Action Against Predatory Lenders Targeting Military Servicemembers
(Hartford, CT) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today released the following statement after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took action... Continue Reading -
December 18, 2014
Blumenthal Statement On Senate Passage Of Tax Extenders Bill
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today released the following statement on the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014, which the Senate passed... Continue Reading -
December 17, 2014
Blumenthal Statement On Release Of Alan Gross, Normalization Of Relations With Cuba
(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today released the following statement on the release of Alan Gross, an American aid worker imprisoned by... Continue Reading -
(Hartford, CT) - U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) issued the following statement today in response to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority’s final decision... Continue Reading
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December 15, 2014
Blumenthal Statement On Confirmation Of Dr. Vivek Murthy
Murthy Will Be Country’s First Senate-Confirmed Surgeon General Since July 2013 (Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today... Continue Reading -
December 15, 2014
Blumenthal Statement On Metro-North Announcement Of Sleep Apnea Tests For Engineers
(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today released the following statement after Metro-North Railroad announced the beginning of a new pilot... Continue Reading -
December 13, 2014
Blumenthal Statement On Omnibus Vote
(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today released the following statement after voting against the omnibus appropriations bill. “The... Continue Reading -
December 12, 2014
Blumenthal Statement On Final Passage Of Defense Authorization
(Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee Airland Subcommittee, today released the following statement... Continue Reading -
Senator To Continue Serving On Armed Services, Judiciary, Commerce, and Aging Committees (Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today announced... Continue Reading
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December 11, 2014
Blumenthal Statement On Bureau Of Justice Statistics Report On Campus Sexual Assault
(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today released the following statement on a new Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report on campus sexual... Continue Reading -
December 11, 2014
Blumenthal Statement On Senate Cloture Vote On Defense Authorization
(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee Airland Subcommittee, today released the following... Continue Reading -
December 11, 2014
Blumenthal Issues Statement on Yale Study Reporting a Quarter of Connecticut High Schoolers Have Tried E-Cigarettes
(Hartford, CT) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) issued the following statement in response to a Yale School of Medicine study that found a quarter of... Continue Reading -
December 11, 2014
Senate Passes Blumenthal Bill To Require States To Report Number Of People Who Die In Police Custody Each Year
(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today applauded last night’s Senate passage of the Death in Custody Reporting Act, bipartisan... Continue Reading -
December 11, 2014
Senate Passes Death In Custody Reporting Act
(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and U.S. Representative Bobby Scott (D-Va.) today applauded last night’s Senate passage of the Death... Continue Reading -
December 10, 2014
As Mazda Expands Recall, Blumenthal, Markey Call On Takata To Release Details Of Safety Testing Used On Defective Airbags
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today wrote to Takata Corporation Chairman and CEO Shigehisa Takada, calling on the... Continue Reading -
December 08, 2014
Blumenthal, Booker Urge Majority Leader Reid to Remove From Omnibus Provisions That Roll Back Regulations Governing Truck Safety
(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) today sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, urging the Senate... Continue Reading -
December 05, 2014
Blumenthal Statement On Nomination Of Ashton Carter To Serve As Secretary Of Defense
(Hartford, CT) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Airland, today released the following... Continue Reading
