Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy and Rep. Elizabeth Esty introduced a bill in both the House and the Senate Wednesday that would provide federal funding for Sandy Hook and other elementary schools that have suffered trauma or violence.
The legislation would offer federal funds to a “school in which the learning [...]
He keeps on tweeting.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy has been sticking to his promise of spending only $4.80 a day on food this week to demonstrate what it’s like to live on a food stamp budget. The federal food stamp program, which provides supplemental assistance to low income people, as known as the Supplemental Nutrition [...]
Sen. Chris Murphy is taking the SNAP Challenge, promising to spend no more than $4.80 per day on food this week, to illustrate what it’s like to live on a food stamp diet. Because Murphy is sharing what he eats via social media, we will too.
Here’s the latest. No word on what he had [...]
The Senate Judiciary Committee Monday adopted by voice vote five amendments sponsored by Sen. Blumenthal during committee markup of the landmark immigration bill.
The first amendment would limit the use of solitary confinement in immigration detention. In committee meeting Monday Blumenthal said his amendment protects the “rights of these individuals who can be subject to [...]
Hold that latte! U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy is taking the “SNAP challenge” this week and promising to forgo Starbucks, Subway and Cheetos and spend only $4.80 a day on food. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers SNAP, the average monthly benefit in Connecticut is $143.89 per family member, which is $4.80 per [...]
Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass) has demonstrated in his campaign that he is at least capable of jumping into the Senate’s divisive gun control debate after releasing an attack ad that targets his opponent, Republican candidate Gabriel Gomez, on guns.
“Gomez is against banning high-capacity magazines like the ones used in the Newtown school [...]
The Senate Environment & Public Works Committee on Thursday approved the nomination of Gina McCarthy, former commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
This was the second vote the committee scheduled on McCarthy’s nomination after Republicans last week boycotted [...]
Sen. Blumenthal on Thursday signed onto legislation to address a growing crisis over sexual assault in the military. A Department of Defense Report released last week found that in fiscal year 2012 there were 26,000 cases of sexual assault, a 37 percent increase from the previous year.
The Military Justice Improvement Act of 2013 has [...]
It’s a grim world, where money talks.
Raymond Soucy, the former union leader and political wheeler dealer, will continue his explosive testimony today in the campaign corruption trial of Robert Braddock, who served as finance director for former House Speaker Christopher Donovan when he ran for Congress last year.
Today, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, U.S. Sen Richard Blumenthal and U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty will propose a bill that would provide funding to help pay for construction of a new Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Last week a Newtown task force endorsed construction of a new school on the site of the existing [...]
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