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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.”
Larson,.D-1st District, spoke outside the House Triangle in Washington D.C., as Mothers United Against Violence of Hartford joined the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, elected officials and advocates in calling for action on gun violence prevention legislation.
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.
The plan to use $2.4 million in federal aid for BristolWORKS!, Bristol’s new campaign against unemployment, brought a rare showing of bipartisan applause, with Democratic and Republican leaders praising the decision.
It has been 20 years since “Shock and Awe,” the code name given to the aerial bombardment that commenced America’s war in Iraq.
U.S. spy agencies wrongly suggested Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and some U.S. officials suggested Iraqi officials had ties to al-Qaida leaders following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, despite evidence of deep antipathy between the two sides.
In 2002, those arguments were so convincing that the U.S. House of Representatives voted 296-to-133 to approve the resolution to go to war with 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.
The decision by the Air Force to not continue the competition to find an alternative would save $6 billion and preserve 27,000 jobs at Raytheon Technologies’ Pratt & Whitney, according to U.S. Rep. John Larson, D-1st District. He has helped lead the push for making upgrades to the company’s existing engines that power the F-35 joint strike fighter.
Pratt & Whitney’s F135 fighter jet engine will continue to power the Air Force’s jet fighters as part of President Joe Biden’s 2024 budget.
Three of Connecticut’s congressional representatives praised Biden’s decision not to begin a competition that would have replaced the F135. GE Aerospace had been pushing for a new engine, according to flightglobal.com.
WINDSOR — The town has received $3 million in federal funds to complete a "road diet" project on Broad Street.
Towns and cities across Connecticut are set to see a major windfall from the $1.7 trillion bill to fund the federal government, thanks to the practice formerly known as earmarking where lawmakers secure large pots of money to benefit their state and districts.
More than 170 projects were approved for Connecticut and tucked into the federal funding bill that passed Congress on Friday. The total amount for the state is upwards of $236 million — a number that greatly exceeds the previous year.
HARTFORD — When military veteran Giselle Jacobs received her Veterans Assistance Supportive Housing Voucher in 2009, it could not have come at a better time for her and her children, she said.
Jacobs became homeless and was traveling to different homeless shelters throughout the city. When this was disclosed to the Veterans Affairs office, she was connected to a program that helped her to start the process of gaining the voucher.
EAST HARTFORD — Connecticut's contribution to victory in World War II included brass munitions from Waterbury, fighter planes from Stratford, artillery fuses from Bristol, guns made in Hartford and New Haven, parachutes from Manchester and ball bearings, mess kits and all kinds of hardware from New Britain.
HARTFORD, CT – Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the Connecticut Department of Public Health has been awarded a $32,253,484 grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that will be used to support the state agency’s newly launched Office of Public Heath Workforce Development.