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Nineteen Democratic lawmakers proposed a ban on buy-now, pay-later loans to finance semiautomatic weapons that would include levying hefty fines on companies that enable the transactions and dealers that accept them. 

West Hartford, CT — When he introduced President Joe Biden at a national gun reform summit at the University of Hartford on Friday, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy said they legislation they had come to celebrate “would not have happened without Joe Biden.”

Farmington, CT (WTIC Radio)-Congress members John Larson (D-1st) and Jahana Hayes (D-5th)touted the virtues of Social Security 2100, calling for the expansion of the program, worried that their Republican counterparts want to reduce or privatize the program that turns 88
in August.

James T. Brett, President and CEO of the New England Council, wrote the following op-ed that appeared in the Hartford Business Journal:

Here in New England, we are proud of our region’s reputation as a global innovation hub.

U.S. Rep. John. B. Larson said he simply wants all lawmakers to see the heartache and what parents who lose children to gun violence “are living through on a daily basis.”

Faced with a doggedly high unemployment rate, Bristol has directed a hefty share of its American Rescue Plan Act aid to a new campaign to connect out-of-work residents with good jobs.

It has been 20 years since “Shock and Awe,” the code name given to the aerial bombardment that commenced America’s war in Iraq.

President Joe Biden’s budget proposal would help protect tens of thousands of Connecticut jobs at Pratt & Whitney as well as its suppliers by supporting the modernization of the F135 engines for fighter jets.