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Washington – The U.S. House on Thursday approved a bill that would scrap for two years a $10,000 cap on the federal deductibility of state and local taxes, a limitation decried by taxpayers in wealthy states like Connecticut who have been hurt by the shrinking of the valuable tax break.
Members of Connecticut's Congressional delegation have moved closer to securing $1.5 million in federal funding to study how pyrrhotite effects concrete foundations in the state.
Washington – The U.S. House on Friday approved an ambitious bill that would dramatically lower the cost of popular drugs, like insulin and other commonly prescribed medications, for Medicare patients and other Americans.
A new proposal in Congress aims to resurrect an old tradition: mailing Social Security statements to your home.
Since 2011, the Social Security Administration has cut back on the number of paper statements it puts in the mail in order to save money.
A new proposal in Congress aims to resurrect an old tradition: mailing Social Security statements to your home.
Since 2011, the Social Security Administration has cut back on the number of paper statements it puts in the mail in order to save money.
Washington – Every member of Connecticut's congressional delegation has asked the Trump administration to abandon a new rule they say would cut or eliminate benefits for as many as 45% of the state's food stamp recipients.
The price of a new invention usually falls as more people adopt it, but prescription drug prices somehow defy gravity.
Connecticut residents, like all Americans, pay among the highest drug prices in the world, and prices keep climbing. We can't change the laws of physics, but we can and must change federal law to bring needed relief.
For a generation of Irish American men, John F. Kennedy symbolized all they might do and become in the United States.
U.S. Rep. John Larson's longstanding quest to save the Social Security system has an important new ally: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The millennial congresswoman from Queens made a video with Larson calling for the House of Representatives to vote on the Social Security 2100 Act.
A shining memorial to Connecticut men and women who died in wars spanning 2½ centuries arrived at Goodwin College Thursday.