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It was a jarring transition. At the Democratic National Convention last Wednesday, a video by James Cameron depicted the impacts of climate change against a dramatic score - global warming as disaster movie, essentially.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy sits down for an interview with Hala Gorani of CNN at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, PA on Tuesday, July 26, 2016. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy sits down for an interview with Hala Gorani of CNN at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, PA on Tuesday, July 26, 2016.
Much like their House counterparts, Connecticut's Democratic senators pushed for immediate funding aimed at opioid addiction. But in the end, they settled for the Republican majority's measure that puts the money on hold until later this year.
A border war between titans in the casino world has escalated, with MGM Resorts International stepping up its opposition to a proposed tribal casino project in Connecticut that's supposed to help the tribes fend off competition from MGM's planned $950 million project in neighboring Massachusetts Besides challenging the law which laid the groundwork for the possible satellite casino, MGM was credited last month with proposing the surprise amendment to a federal defense bill. It would have prevented tribes with casinos on tribal land, like Connecticut's Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribal nations, from opening a venture off-reservation in the same state.
A casino border war between Connecticut and Massachusetts has escalated, with MGM Resorts International stepping up its opposition to a proposed tribal casino project in Connecticut. MGM was recently credited with proposing a surprise amendment to a federal defense bill that would have prevented the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes from opening a casino on non-tribal Connecticut land.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand greets people before addressing the Long Island Association at their office in Melville, Friday, June 24, 2016. Photo Credit: Steve Pfost Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand greets people before addressing the Long Island Association at their office in Melville, Friday, June 24, 2016.
I have never fired a gun, nor do I own one, and I don't intend to ever do either. Guns never fascinated me as a super hero-loving kid, and they certainly don't interest me now.
Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even... Sign if you agree: Presidents do not stop working in the final year of their term. Neither should the Senate.
Despite a poll showing more support among Americans, lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on new gun control measures. This is the second time since December that similar amendments did not get the required 60 votes to pass.
Four gun policy measures failed to pass the 60-vote threshold to move forward in the Senate on Monday, following impassioned debate from both sides of the aisle. The votes came just over a week after a deadly shooting spree in a gay nightclub in Orlando - the nation's worst mass shooting in modern history - and a subsequent 15-hour filibuster by Senate Democrats who demanded action on gun control.
A top Republican is rejecting a potential compromise on gun control negotiated by moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine FILE - In this June 16, 2016 file photo, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., left, accompanied by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democrats get their long-sought votes on gun control a week after the massacre in Orlando, Florida, but the prospects for any election-year changes in the nationA a a s laws are dim.
The Senate's plans to debate a spending bill for the Justice Department went out the window June 15, as Sen. Chris Murphy took the floor, beginning what turned into a 15-hour filibuster. Murphy launched the talk-a-thon to protest the Senate's lack of movement on legislation to curb gun violence.
The entire purpose of my satirical piece demanding the immediate defunding of Planned Parenthood and reconsideration of the Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling "as a result of" the Orlando terrorist attack was to promote fact-based rationality in policymaking, even in the wake -- or especially in the wake -- of a terrible event. "Public policy should be crafted based on evidence and empiricism, ever mindful of the constitution, even when it's politically inconvenient.
Sen. Chris Murphy addresses a room full of residents, elected officials and leaders from the LGBT and Muslim communities during a roundtable meeting at the Rainbow CafA Meeting Room in the First Congregational Church of Stamford on Saturday, June 18, 2016. In the wake of the devastating event that occurred last weekend in Orlando, Senator Murphy , along with Senator Richard Blumenthal and Stamford Mayor David Martin joined in discussion with LGBT and Muslim communities to look for ways on how we can move forward together to combat hate in our society.
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Congressman Jim Himes, and Stamford Mayor David Martin are hosting a public meeting with Connecticut's Muslim and LGBT leaders on the Orlando shooting. The meeting is being held Saturday, June 18, at 9 a.m. in the Rainbow Cafe Meeting Room at the First Congregational Church, 1 Walton Place, Stamford.
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., left, accompanied by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., right, and other Democratic senators, calls for gun control legislation in the wake of the mass shooting in an Orlando LGBT nightclub this week, Thursday, June 16, 2016, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Murphy waged a roughly 15-hour filibuster into early Thursday, asserting as he yielded the floor that Republican leaders had committed to hold votes on expanded gun background checks and a ban on gun sales to suspected terrorists.
The debate over gun control is back on Capitol Hill, as well as on the 2016 presidential campaign trail, following a 15-hour filibuster by Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy to call for action in the wake of the massacre at an Orlando gay club. For some of Hillary Clinton's potential running mate picks, joining their colleague on the Senate floor overnight Wednesday into early Thursday morning, advocating for an issue key to the Democratic base, might have served as a de facto VP try out.
President Barack Obama, followed by, from second from left, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., and Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., walks down the steps of Air Force One at Bradley Air Force Base, Conn., Monday, April 8, 2013. Obama traveled to the Hartford, Conn., to speak at the University of Hartford, near the state capitol where last week the governor signed into law some of the nation's strictest gun control laws with the Sandy Hook families standing behind him.
The marathon filibuster spearheaded by Senator Chris Murphy on the Senate floor in Washington has officially come to an end early Thursday morning. The filibuster ended at 2:11 a.m.Thursday morning.