During the afternoon today, House Republican Leader Larry Cafero (R-Norwalk) was host to a forum for Republican and Democrat municipal government leaders held in the legislative Office Building. Thirty mayors and first selectmen from across the state and from both parties joined in the informational presentation and were able to ask questions of staff from [...]
Following the success of last month’s informational forum hosted by House Republicans for municipal government leaders, House GOP Leader Lawrence F. Cafero, Jr. (R-Norwalk) will host another municipal forum tomorrow, at 11:00 a.m. in Room 2D of the Legislative Office Building. The forum will focus on the budget deficit and its impact on municipalities.
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In continued demonstration of bipartisan collaboration this session by the House Republicans, legislative Republicans and Democrats came together to support a deficit mitigation package that closes $1.2 billion of the budget deficit for the current fiscal year ending this June. The compromise package between both parties included no cuts in state aid to cities and [...]
The House of Representatives has convened today to address the current fiscal year’s budget deficit which is currently estimated at $1.3 billion. Democrats plan to offer a plan that has similarities to that which Governor M. Jodi Rell has offered. They claim their plan contain no tax hikes, or increases of fees. They plan a [...]
The Connecticut Post is reporting that the legislature’s Transportation Committee co-chairmen, Sen. Don DeFronzo (D-New Britain) and Rep. Antonio Guerrara (D-Rocky Hill), consider it only “a matter of time” before highway tolls are back in place here in Connecticut. With the state so deeply in the red, it is easy to see why the notion [...]
Governor M. Jodi Rell today released the details of her new budget mitigation plan. The legislature is scheduled to take up the proposal in session on Wednesday, February 25th.
The $1.1 billion plan dips into the state’s Rainy Day Fund for $282 million, a move the governor and Republican legislators had been trying to avoid for [...]
This afternoon at a hastily assembled press conference in the House Democrats’ conference room, House Speaker Chris Donovan and Senate President Don Williams told assembled press and staff that the gap between Governor M. Jodi Rell’s proposed budget and the projections put out by the legislature’s Office of Fiscal Analysis was a “reality gap.” Today the [...]
With the budget deficit for the current fiscal year ending this June continuing to grow, the legislature must once again go into a session to mitigate the shortfall. Efforts of legislative Democrats during the prior budget mitigation sessions have been inadequate, and they have failed to offer significant or meaningful cuts. They were certain to [...]
When it comes to budget projections, it isn’t uncommon for the legislature’s non-partisan Office of Fiscal Analysis (OFA) to come up with different figures than the Governor’s Office of Policy and Management (OPM). While those differences can oftentimes be significant, when dealing with the kinds of significant shortfalls being looked at over the next two years [...]
File this in the “Still Not Getting It” department. We knew that since Senate President Don Williams and House Speaker Chris Donovan have taken an “everything is on the table” approach, a tax increase from legislative Democrats was likely in the future. Now the first 22 Democratic members of the legislature have called for tax [...]
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