[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qND_aJYO8Xs&hl=en] Today House and Senate Republicans offered a balanced alternative budget proposal that cuts state gas taxes, eliminates a business tax, and offers thousands of stae employees an early retirement plan that will reduce spending by $163 million next year according to the non-partisan Office of Fiscal Analysis. The plan balances taxes and spending, does [...]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04YK12IF3qc&hl=en] The House has been debating HB 5536, An Act Establishing the Connecticut Healthcare Partnership this evening. The bill is a step and a half toward universal healthcare and socialized medicine, and has been advanced by House Majority Leader Chris Donovan. Section six of the bill requires the Comptroller to study how to include anyone [...]
Among the bills the State House of Representatives is scheduled to address tonight are: HB 5750. An Act Concerning Outdoor Advertising – This bill lifts Governor Rell’s executive order barring billboards and outdoor advertising on state property. The order also prohibits the state from entering into any new contracts for billboards on state property and [...]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYEmlxWkxvk&hl=en] At the opening of today’s session House Speaker James Amann announced this afternoon to a mostly surprised House of Representatives that he would not seek re-election to the House and is retiring as Speaker after having served two terms in that post. Amann has represented the 118th District in Milford since 1991, and was [...]
Republicans once again introduced an amendment to the Teen Voting Resolution today on the floor of the House which would allow unrestricted absentee ballot access, eliminating the set requirements currently in place to cast absentee ballots. The measure would have expanded ballot access to all voters and provide greater convenience increase participation in the electoral [...]
The legislature’s Judiciary Committee today amended a bill with the intention of killing it. The bill would have prevented voters from receiving annoying “robo calls,” or automated political phone calls endorsing or opposing political candidates or parties. The Legislative Commissioner’s Office would presumably have no time to incorporate the changes before the end of the session. In [...]
House Republican Leader Larry Cafero offered an amendment this afternoon on the floor of the House of Representatives that would create a tough Three Strikes law in Connecticut, requiring life in prison upon conviction for a third violent offense. After Judiciary Committee co-chairman Michael Lawlor spoke in opposition to the amendment, House Majority Leader Christopher [...]
Substitutue for House Joint Resolution 21 appears again on the “Go List” for the Connecticut House of Representatives once again today. Last week the Democratic majority abruptly ended discussion on this bill which proposes an amendment to the state Constitution allowing seventeen-year-olds to vote in primaries for general elections that they will be eighteen-years-old and [...]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46jqJ9rPlAM&hl=en] Today House Gop Leader Larry Cafero (R-Norwalk) was joined by Senate GOP Leader John McKinney (R-Fairfield) to unveil a proposed ethics package following the breakdown in negotiations on ethics reform last week. The discussions broke down on the ethics bill because it did not include a “true” pension revocation provision, and did not require the [...]
We continue to have a poll at the House Republican Website on Three Strikes. Do you believe we should have a measure that requires criminals to be given a mandatory sentence of life in prison for a third violent offense such as rape, arson or murder. Take the poll here.
