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[VIDEO] Update With Less Than Three Weeks in 2018 Legislative Session
Here’s an update of our progress this legislative session following the passage of a pay equity bill.
Read MoreToday’s Bipartisan Vote on the Budget
Rep. Terrie Wood’s update from the State Capitol on the vote for a bipartisan budget in the House of Representatives today.
Read MoreArrogance has no place in public policy
This video clip was taped during a Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee meeting on June 1st 2015 last year. The legislative session would end less than 48 hours later. We were voting on the revenue side of the budget at this meeting. I’m inquiring, of the House Chair of the Committee, if provisions of SB…
Read MoreChallenges of balancing the Connecticut budget (Meet the Leaders video)
As the deadline was looming to balance the budget of an extended, short, (though felt very long) budget session, we discussed the challenges of Connecticut’s unfriendly tax policies and over bloated state employee union expenses.
Read MoreBipartisan support gets the job done
I very much enjoyed the opportunity to welcome back New Haven Mayor Toni Harp to the Capitol when she came to testify before the Finance Committee in March. Toni (while she was serving as state senator) and I co-chaired the Mental Health part of the Gun Safety Bill written and passed in response to Sandy Hook School…
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