The coronavirus funding, three times more than the amount proposed by President Donald Trump, will give states $950 million.
Ana Radelat
Ana has written about politics and policy in Washington, D.C.. for Gannett, Thompson Reuters and UPI. She was a special correspondent for the Miami Herald, and a regular contributor to The New York TImes, Advertising Age and several other publications. She has also worked in broadcast journalism, for CNN and several local NPR stations. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Journalism.
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Concerns rise in Congress about coronavirus’ impact on U.S. drug supply
Sen. Chris Murphy and Rep. Rosa DeLauro are among lawmakers leading efforts to see whether the virus will harm supply.
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CT joins suit to stop Trump from diverting military money to wall
The lawsuit says transferring funds to build a border wall is contrary to Congress’s intent and violates the Constitution.
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CT, state’s insurers, hail Supreme Court decision to hear Obamacare appeal
Affordable Care Act supporters said they are confident the U.S. Supreme Court will determine the health care law is constitutional.
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Republicans walk out of House coronavirus briefing, protesting DeLauro remarks
Rep. Rosa DeLauro criticized the Trump administration’s coronavirus funding proposal and what she said was ‘the lack of transparency and unwillingness to allow public health experts to speak freely about what is happening.’
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Dems seek to question Durham about his investigation of Russia probe
The request that Durham and other officials come in for interviews opens a new line of investigation by House Democrats into the conduct of the Trump administration.
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Blumenthal, Murphy pin hopes on gun control ‘movement’ as gun bills stall in Congress
‘If Republicans aren’t interested in saving public lives they should be interested in saving their own political lives,” Murphy said.
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Shredding Trump’s plan, DeLauro says she’ll write her own coronavirus bill
Later in the day, President Trump said in a press conference that ‘they can do whatever they want,’ with regards to Congress figuring out where the money would originate.
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CT delegation has wait-and-see attitude toward presidential endorsement
The plurality of Democratic presidential candidates poses a problem for the members of Connecticut’s delegation, who are holding back on endorsing anyone.
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Blumenthal, Murphy say Trump response to coronavirus ‘too little, too late’
U.S. health officials warned that the spread of coronavirus in the United States appears inevitable.
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Connecticut resists, but also cooperates with ICE
Connecticut’s COLLECT database provides federal agencies, including ICE, with information used to track immigrants.
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Report: Hyde not cooperating with Yovanovitch surveillance investigation
Emails between Robert Hyde and the House Foreign Affairs Committee indicate he failed to give lawmakers all information that he promised them.
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Himes: Trump’s treatment of intelligence chief puts nation in a ‘very, very bad place’
Rep. Jim Himes attended a controversial briefing last week in which a senior U.S. intelligence official reportedly said Russia wants President Donald Trump re-elected.
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Murphy meets with Iranian official in rebuff of Trump policy
Chris Murphy met wit h Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this weekend, burnishing his foreign policy credentials and promoting an alternative to Trump diplomacy,
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Blumenthal demands Barr resign in wake of Stone sentencing controversy
Blumenthal and fellow Democrats say Barr ‘intervened in a clearly political fashion to undermine the administration of justice at the president’s behest.’