Health Care
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. couldn’t avoid heated exchanges with Democrats over vaccines and the administration’s health fraud investigations Thursday, despite an apparent effort to stay on message.
The Ways and Means Committee hearing Thursday kicked off a marathon of Kennedy appearances in Congress over the next week – the first since the administration significantly pared backfederal childhood vaccine recommendations.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Reps. John B. Larson (CT-01) and Beth Van Duyne (TX-24) introduced the bipartisan Outpatient Surgery Access Act of 2026, to lower surgery costs at outpatient ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) for seniors on Medicare.
Nearly every member of the House Republican caucus voted Wednesday in favor of a proposed constitutional amendment that experts say would result in massive cuts to Social Security, Medicare, nutrition assistance, and other key federal programs.
March 6, 2026 — U.S. Senator Chris Murphy joined U.S. Representative Jahana Hayes and U.S. Representative John Larson for a visit to EdAdvance’s Early Childhood Learning Center in Torrington to meet with agency leaders and staff to discuss the impact of federal funding cuts and uncertainties on programs serving children, families, and schools across northwest Connecticut.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) announced that his office is accepting applications for Fiscal Year 2027 Community Project Funding requests.
Members of Congress have sent a letter to the Department of Education demanding that the Trump administration's policy, which determines nursing is not a "professional" degree, be reversed, amid what they said was a "nursing crisis."
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Easterseals Capital Region & Eastern Connecticut, a local non-profit organization, has expanded its veterans suicide prevention program in Hartford County.
The Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention grant is the federal program that allowed them to expand and meet the needs of veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice for the country.
With an additional grant of $212,000, the organization secured a total of $750,000.
Hartford, CT – Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) announced $1 million in new federal funding to expand the Harriott Community Healthcare Academy, supporting efforts to train new care workers as Connecticut faces a severe healthcare worker shortage.