Press Releases
September 14, 2018
Today, U.S. Representatives John Larson (CT-1), Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), and Jim Himes (CT-4) and U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced $470,893 through the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Program (HUD-VASH) for housing authorities in Hartford, West Haven, and Norwalk.
September 13, 2018
Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) released the following statement from today’s Ways and Means Mark Up on the Republican Tax Plan 2.0.
Issues:LocalTax Policy
September 13, 2018
Today, Rep. John B. Larson (D-Conn), Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Reps. Terri A. Sewell (D-Ala.), Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) Conor Lamb (D-PA), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) on Thursday announced the bicameral Expand Social Security Caucus, along with 16 senators and more than 130 House members.
Issues:LocalSocial Security
September 12, 2018
Today, Congressman John B. Larson (CT-01) and Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) announced that the Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants (CTCPA) Executive Director Bonnie Stewart sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in support or their effort to clarify how homeowners with crumbling foundations can receive federal tax relief through the casualty loss deduction.
September 11, 2018
Washington DC – Today, Congressman John B. Larson(CT-01) released the following statement on the 17th anniversary of the attacks on our country on September 11, 2001 that killed nearly 3,000 people on that morning.
September 10, 2018
Today, Congressman John B. Larson (CT-01) Ranking Member on the Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee released the following statement on the Republican agenda to make the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction cap of $10,000 permanent Thursday in the Ways and Means Committee.
Issues:LocalTax Policy
September 6, 2018
Today, Congressman John B. Larson announced that the East Hartford Fire Department will receive a $60,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) program.
September 6, 2018
Today, the Connecticut Congressional Delegation announced $885,895 in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighter Grants (AFG) to support fire departments in Goshen, East Haven, South Windham, Ansonia, Guilford, Westport and East Hartford.
September 5, 2018
In a letter Tuesday to FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery, the Connecticut Congressional Delegation supported the appeal by Governor Dannel P. Malloy of the agency’s refusal to provide disaster aid to individual property owners, as well as to the towns of Bridgewater, New Milford and Roxbury who sustained significant damage from the May 15 supercell thunderstorms.
September 4, 2018
Hartford, CT - Today, Congressman John B. Larson announced that the Portland Fire Department will receive a $14,586 grant from the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) program.
Issues:Grants