With a narrow GOP House majority, CT Democrats will lose committee chairmanships but say they’ll still have leverage in crafting policy.
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UConn could face largest budget shortfall in school’s history
School administrators said Friday they need the state’s help to close a $74 million budget deficit.
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CT maxes out budget reserve as coffers approach $3.1 billion
The projections, much rosier than initially predicted, sparked renewed calls from lawmakers for more state spending to combat the pandemic.
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DeLauro in hot race, but it’s not for re-election
The race that is consuming Rep. Rosa DeLauro right now is for the gavel of the House Appropriations Committee.
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DeLauro says she will make a bid for top job on appropriations panel
But DeLauro may have to go up against Democratic colleagues for the powerful job.
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For the first time, DeLauro shepherds massive spending bill through Congress
As chairman of a House Appropriations subcommittee, Rep. Rosa DeLauro is pressing to boost funding for health, labor and education programs by billions of dollars.
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DeLauro takes on DeVos failed charter schools, education budget cuts
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was put on the spot over a new report that said charter schools wasted $1 billion in federal money.
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Higher education proponents hope study makes the case to invest in CSCU
The day before Gov. Lamont releases his first budget, CSCU officials told lawmakers an economic analysis shows the system pumped $11.1 billion in income into the state’s economy in 2017.
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DeLauro uses new clout to probe Trump’s impact on Obamacare
WASHINGTON — As chairman of a key subcommittee, Rep. Rosa DeLauro seeks ways to bolster the Affordable Care Act.
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CT federal workers to be paid, but government could shut down again
Washington — There’s a truce, not an end to the fighting that caused the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
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DeVos tells Murphy she doesn’t think schools can call ICE on students
WASHINGTON – Under questioning by Sen. Chris Murphy on Tuesday, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos reversed herself on whether a school can call Immigration and Customs Enforcement on students believed to be undocumented. “I don’t think they can,” she said.
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Budget panel won’t pass spending plan — again
For the second consecutive year, the legislature’s Appropriations Committee will not recommend a new budget before its deadline. But Democratic and Republican leaders from the House and Senate said lawmakers will continue working between now and the session’s end on May 9 to close a projected shortfall in the fiscal year that begins July 1.
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CT budget panel going down to the wire again
With last year’s failure to recommend a new budget still fresh in their minds, the leaders of the legislature’s Appropriations Committee were uncertain this week whether they could avoid a repeat.
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Connecticut Dems have big stake in November elections
WASHINGTON – Connecticut’s all-Democratic delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives has been hampered by being in the minority since 2010, but that may change this year, analysts say.
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Casino, Millstone bills clear a committee hurdle
Not without drama, the legislature’s Appropriations Committee voted Monday to approve and send to the Senate two of the session’s most controversial bills: one affecting the profitability of the Millstone Nuclear Power Station and another permitting the first casino off tribal lands.