November turnover boosts Connecticut’s seniority in U.S. Senate

HARTFORD, Conn. – Six retirements and a Republican wave that ousted five incumbents in November cost Connecticut its place with the majority party in Washington. But the turnover has lifted up Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy from their previous standings near the bottom of the seniority list in the U.S. Senate.

Blumenthal and Murphy have jumped from their respective rankings of 83rd and 92nd in Senate seniority in the 113th Congress to 68th and 77th in the 114th.

In 2010, the last year that former senators Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman served together, Connecticut had more combined seniority than all but three other states — Massachusetts, Hawaii, and Iowa.

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