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Biden says White House won’t quit on gun control

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Connecticut Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy said there are efforts underway to modify the failed background check bill in order to sway some votes, although they admitted they have yet to win a convert.

Money from D.C. to build new Sandy Hook school a long shot

By Ana Radelat

Monday, June 17, 2013

Exterior of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown (Photo courtesy of The Newtown Bee)

Lieberman defends NSA phone, Internet data collection

By Ana Radelat

Monday, June 17, 2013

To Joseph Lieberman, the former independent Connecticut senator and former chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, outrage over the recent disclosures of secret government data gathering is overblown. The National Security Agency is simply collecting “metadata,” phone numbers and “connections between phone numbers.”

“I think people will feel better about these programs if they know more about them,” Lieberman said.

Former Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman

Sandy Hook families fail to win votes, but say they won’t quit

By Ana Radelat Friday, June 14, 2013

Washington -- Democratic leaders, and the White House, rallied around dozens of family members and friends of the victims of the Newtown tragedy Thursday.

Some Newtown families met privately with President Obama and Vice President Biden.

“As we approach the six-month anniversary of that terrible day, we will never forget and we will continue to fight alongside them,” said White House spokesman Jay Carney.

Sandy Hook families get sympathy, but few promises of support

By Ana Radelat Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Washington -- In Washington to prod Congress to act on gun control as the six-month anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy nears, family members and friends of the victims found sympathetic ears.

“My heart goes out to them,” said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.

Cantor, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and other House Republicans held a half-hour meeting with several family members of the 20 children and six women killed in the Newton massacre.

Senate begins debate on immigration bill

By Ana Radelat Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Washington –- A wide-ranging and ambitious immigration bill that would provide 11 million undocumented people with legal status easily overcame its first hurdle Tuesday.

The Senate voted 82-15 to begin debate on the bill. Connecticut's two senators, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, both Democrats, were in the majority that voted to move the bill forward.

Tuesday’s overwhelming, bipartisan vote belies the problems the bill faces, both in escaping major revisions on the Senate floor and rejection by the GOP-led House.

Newtown families return to Capitol Hill six months after tragedy

By Ana Radelat Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Washington -- Having brushed aside efforts to strengthen the nation’s gun laws, Congress has turned its attention toward other issues, including immigration reform and alleged abuses by the IRS and National Security Administration.

But for the families affected by the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School and their neighbors, there is no moving on.

Metro-North says it has changed procedures after accidents

By Ana Radelat Monday, June 10, 2013

Washington -- Howard Permut, president of Metro-North, said the railroad has taken several steps in reaction to last month’s derailment near Bridgeport.

Those included retaining the Transportation Technology Center, a railroad testing and training facility located near Pueblo, Colo.

A faulty joint bar -- which holds two sections of track together -- was discovered near the site of the collision, and a section of the track was brought to Washington, D.C., for testing by the National Transportation Safety Board.

Malloy gives feds Sandy plan for approval

By Ana Radelat Friday, June 7, 2013

Washington -- Gov. Dannel Malloy Friday sent the Department of Housing and Urban Development a plan that could bring $72 million to the state to help it continue to recover from Hurricane Sandy.

HUD had allocated $72 million in Community Development Block grants to help Connecticut rebuild after the October super storm. But before receiving the money, Connecticut is required to submit a plan on how the state would use it.

The Malloy administration submitted its plan just under the wire -- the deadline is June 9.

From Alaska to Hartford, a pol's bitter fight over...$20,000?

By Ana Radelat Friday, June 7, 2013

Washington –- Hartford has become the unlikely setting for a story about Alaska politics, a bitter legal fight, honor and fancy stationery.

Our saga begins in 2008 when a failed Republican candidate for an Alaska U.S. Senate seat decided not to pay a bill for the services of a Hartford–based political consulting firm owned by Tom D'Amore and John Doyle, two former aides to Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., because he didn’t like their work or the way he was treated.

Obama picks law professor for Connecticut federal court seat

By Ana Radelat Friday, June 7, 2013

Washington -- President Obama on Friday nominated Quinnipiac University law professor Jeffrey A. Meyer, who is also a visiting professor at Yale Law School, as a judge of the U.S. District Court in Connecticut.

Meyer was senior counsel to the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations' Oil-for-Food Program in Iraq from 2004 to 2005, and he was assistant U.S. Attorney in Connecticut from 1995 to 2004.

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