HARTFORD — Thirty minutes to read a hundred-page bill? Is that anyway to run government? Well, that’s what’s going on at the Capitol these days, where majority-party Democrats run the show. They continue to unveil complex, budget-related legislation late at night — hours and hours after the time they asked Republicans to show up in [...]
Grab your wallets, taxpayers of Connecticut. Super-majority Democrats are in the driver’s seat during today’s legislative session to consider bills that will implement the budget. Check out this report from the Connecticut Post, which tells readers that Town Aid Road funding, a vital piece to municipal budgets throughout the state, could be in line for [...]
The U.S. Congress is notoriously dysfunctional when it comes to writing legislation. All too frequently, bills are written by a small number of members in the dead of night, the text running hundreds if not thousands of pages long. The bill is then summarily called for a vote without giving adequate time to the rank [...]
The state budget that was recently passed into law was a 702-page monstrosity of a bill, dropped in the laps of legislators just hours before the Democratic Majority in Hartford voted overwhelmingly to pass it. Those 702 pages contained a litany of provisions hazardous to Connecticut’s economy and our communities: job-killing tax increases, $1.55 billion [...]
HARTFORD — Now isn’t the time. That was the message today from Republicans concerned about the abilities of towns and cities to pay for unfunded mandates handed down by the state. Rep. Larry Cafero, leader of the House Republicans, was backed by Reps. Rosa Rebimbas, Arthur O’Neill and Bill Hamzy during an afternoon news conference, and [...]
There are transcendent moments in history that define a generation – for many, it was the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 or the day World War II ended where people rejoiced at the end of long, and devastating war and cities celebrated. For others, it was that November day in Dallas when President John [...]
From the Hartford Courant.
From: The News-Times, September 6, 2009
As Connecticut’s budget impasse dragged throughout the summer, compromise became the word of the day. The governor, staring down the barrel of a tax-hungry Democratic supermajority, backed off previous no-tax-increase pledges and made a modest offer to raise taxes. In return, she asked for spending reductions that would force government [...]
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