STAMFORD, Connecticut, Dec. 21 -- Rep. Jim Himes, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Congressman Jim Himes (CT-04) and Mayor Caroline Simmons announced that Stamford would receive a $2.73 million Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to upgrade the city's hurricane protection barrier and pump stations. "With climate change driving increasingly frequent and intense storms towards Connecticut, it is more   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Rep. John B. Larson, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member John B. Larson (D-CT) released this statement after the Senate voted to confirm Martin O'Malley, former Governor of Maryland and Mayor of Baltimore, as Commissioner of the Social Security Administration. "I congratulate Commissioner O'Malley and look forward to working with him as he leads the Social Security A  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Rep. John B. Larson, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Hartford, CT - Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01), Senators Richard Blumenthal, and Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin, alongside former Senator Joe Lieberman, and National Park Service leaders, announced a new general agreement and a clear path forward to donate property for Coltsville National Historical Park. "The effort to establish Coltsville as a National Historical Park has brought together countless   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON--U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined 38 of their Democratic Senate colleagues in introducing a resolution in support of equitable, science-based policies governing access to medication abortion. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, reproductive rights have been increasingly under attack, with more than a dozen states banning or restric  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined 48 of their Senate colleagues in a letter to U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Vice Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) urging them to reject any new poison pill policy riders in the fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills, including the anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion policy provisions that House  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.), both members of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on Wednesday introduced bipartisan legislation directing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to establish a plan to review all currently approved opioid medications. The Opioid Review Act would require the FDA to consider information that was   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- Rep. John B. Larson, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: East Hartford, CT - Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) released the following statement: "Israel has the unequivocal right to defend itself after the October 7th Hamas attack, but it is clear that Prime Minister Netanyahu's leadership is failing his country and the region," said Larson. "Continued failure to heed President Biden's warnings about prioritizing the protection of civilians, developing a p  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 22 -- Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-Connecticut, issued the following statement on Dec. 21, 2023: * * * "On October 7, Israel faced the most devastating terrorist attack in its history. I continue to stand with Israel in the wake of this horror and unequivocally support its right to defend itself and defeat Hamas. I have also long said, even before this current conflict, that it is imperative that we create the conditions for peace and a two-state solution between Israel  more