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Information about Chris Murphy

• Congress homepage
  Find here Murphy's bio, his voting records, committees he is assigned to, bills he is supporting or sponsoring
• Wikipedia article
  Community authored article on Murphy's career.

Information and commentary on the war in Iraq

The Library subscribes to a resource called CQ Researcher which provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Published by the Congressional Quarterly corp. These are a sampling of reports:

• War in Iraq
• New Strategy in Iraq
• Congressional Research Service Report
• Iraq Study Group Report

Also, skip down to 5 (below) and use one of the suggested databases to search for more.

Related Issues

Examples include veterans health care, energy & oil, war/defense appropriations, troop deployment. The following are more reports from the CQ Researcher.

• Exporting Democracy
• Treatment of Veterans
• US Policy on Iran
• Wounded Veterans
• Middle East Tensions

Also, read a daily newspaper!

Legislation

• THOMAS
  Search bills by keyword or bill number.
• Senate.gov
  All legislation introduced to and acted upon in the US Senate
• On the Issues
  "Every political leader on every issue." Information culled from daily newspapers, speeches, press releases, and the Internet. Link takes you directly to Chris Murphy.
• Project Vote-Smart
  Lists all bills introduced in Congress and how Murphy voted.

Researching the positions...

This part requires you to find commentary and analysis that brings all of the above together. You will need to search the following databases using keywords that describe what you are seeking.

Examples:

• chris murphy and veterans
• murphy and alternative energy
• congress and murphy and iran

Suggested databases... or choose others from the library's Articles/Databases page

• Lexis-Nexis
  Database of world-wide news stories.
• Newspapers Full-Text
  Major US newspaper coverage.
• Academic Search Premier
  Includes journals, magazines, newspapers.

NOTE: You MUST use that word "AND" when combining search terms in these library databases!