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November 25, 2019
Today, Representatives John Larson (CT-01) and Joe Courtney (CT-02) , and Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT), released a letter they received from the IRS confirming that the Connecticut Foundation Solutions Indemnity Company, Inc. (CFSIC) is not required to issue federal tax form 1099s to homeowners who have received assistance from CFSIC to repair their crumbling foundations.
November 25, 2019
Today, Congressman John Larson (CT-01), Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Congressman Jim Himes (CT-04), and Congresswoman Jahana Hayes (CT-05) sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) urging them to rescind a $450,000 “non-reporting” penalty imposed on Gaylord Hospital in Wallingford. Gaylord Hospital has provided patients throughout the state of Connecticut with high-quality care for more than one hundred years.
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November 21, 2019
Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) voted for the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act (H.R. 1309).
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November 21, 2019
Today, House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John B. Larson (CT-01), Reps. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Danny K. Davis (IL-07), and John Lewis (GA-05) sent a letter to Andrew Saul, Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), to request transparency and more information after SSA abruptly ended a pilot telework program.
November 21, 2019

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.

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November 21, 2019
Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) released the following statement on the passing of State Representative Linda Orange.
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November 20, 2019
Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) applauded the announcement that the United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) was awarded two federal grants totaling $1,261,282 from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
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November 19, 2019
Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) introduced the Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now (GREEN) Act.
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November 9, 2019
Today, Rep. John B. Larson attended the unveiling of the Fallen Star Memorial in East Hartford.
November 7, 2019

For a generation of Irish American men, John F. Kennedy symbolized all they might do and become in the United States. Journalist Pete Hamill, who learned of Kennedy's death while visiting relatives in Belfast, wrote of feeling unsafe years later when his car broke down on a remote road in rural Mexico. Unsafe, that is, until he arrived at the nearest house and saw portraits of JFK and the Virgin of Guadalupe on the mud-brick wall.