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Olympic Reform

Nov 14, 2019 Stephen Krauchick

#WASHINGTON, D.C.– Today, the Senate Commerce Committee approved legislation authored by U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) – Chairman and Ranking Member of the Commerce Subcommittee with jurisdiction over the health and safety of U.S. Olympic and amateur athletes – that would dramatically reform the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee. The legislation will now be considered by the full Senate. Moran and Blumenthal introduced their sweeping reform bill in July following an eighteen-month investigation into systemic abuse within the U.S. Olympic movement. The joint inquiry included four subcommittee hearings, interviews with Olympic athletes and survivors, and the retrieval of over 70,000 pages of documents. Click here to read the senators’ full investigative report, findings, and recommendations, and here for a one-page summary of…

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$26 MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDING TO ASSIST LOW-INCOME STUDENTS SUCCEED IN COLLEGE

Nov 13, 2019 Stephen Krauchick

HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont today announced that Connecticut is receiving a seven-year, $25.8 million Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) grant from the U.S. Department of Education that will assist the state in its efforts to increase the number of low-income students prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education. The funding will allow three Connecticut community colleges to collaborate with local school districts to implement and carry out the project. The local alliances include Manchester Community College with East Hartford Public Schools, Naugatuck Valley Community College with Waterbury Public Schools, and Middlesex Community College with Meriden Public Schools. “Our community colleges play a critical role in equipping our young people with…

Fairfield State News

Vaping Seminar Held In Fairfield By Attorney General

Nov 12, 2019 Stephen Krauchick

Attorney General William Tong said history is repeating itself as “20 years ago Attorney General Blumethal took on big tobacco companies because they were marking to kids”. Attorney General Tong feels that companies like Juul is marketing to kids “with different flavors and social media marketing” and he is launching his own investigation. Senator Tong hosted a forum held at Fairfield Woods Middle School last week, state officials will heard from representatives from the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association, Sacred Heart University, Yale Health, and the Fairfield public school district about measures being taken to combat vaping among Connecticut's youth. Doctor JD Sidana of Docs of CT said one of the many additives in vaping materials is diastone,…

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Veterans Honored

Nov 8, 2019 Stephen Krauchick

HARTFORD, CT] – On Friday, November 8, 2019 at 12:30 PM at Wall of Honor in Hartford, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) will present service medals to Specialist Third Class (SP-3) Calvin J. Manship of East Hartford in recognition of his service in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. SP-3 Manship served for over a year overseas, where his most significant duty assignment was serving with Headquarters Company, 11th Airborne Division. The medals being awarded to SP-3 Manship are the Good Conduct (Army) Medal; National Defense Service Medal; Korean Service Medal; United Nations Service Medal; Combat Infantry Badge; and Parachutist Badge. This press release was made possible by:

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Governor Receives Plan On Harmful Gas

Nov 5, 2019 Stephen Krauchick

HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the Connecticut Interagency PFAS Task Force, the group he created this summer and tasked with making recommendations for him to consider that address the potential harmful effects of a widely-used class of chemicals known as PFAS, has transmitted to his office its final action plan. The plan recommends testing water supplies across the state, reducing the sources of PFAS in the environment, and cleaning up known contamination due to this class of emerging pollutants. “I applaud the work of this task force, which is the result of a collaborative effort among public, private, and nonprofit stakeholders coming together to address an emerging contaminant with real impacts globally, nationally, and right here in Connecticut,” Governor…

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Murphy Wants Bill To Accommodate Students From Puerto Rico

Nov 5, 2019 Stephen Krauchick

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) this week introduced the ELEVATE Act (S.2761), bicameral legislation that will ensure states receive the federal funding necessary to provide high-quality instruction to students learning English. Specifically this legislation will correct a flawed funding formula the U.S. Department of Education uses to allocate funds to states by fully capturing the number of K-12 students who relocate to the mainland from Puerto Rico. This bill would allow Puerto Rican students to be fully counted in the annual grant allocation that states receive under the English Language Acquisition grant program. Correcting this flaw will be especially helpful to states like Connecticut and Florida, which…

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Health Literacy Month

Nov 4, 2019 Stephen Krauchick

#WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), on Thursday introduced a bipartisan resolution designating October as “Health Literacy Month.” “Managing your health care benefit shouldn’t be so complicated to understand. Improving health literacy will go a long way toward reducing barriers to care and bringing down the health costs for the people of Connecticut. I’m proud to join my colleagues in introducing this important resolution just days before open enrollment season begins,” said Murphy. “Improving health literacy could help lower rates of diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure as more people understand symptoms, nutrition, and fitness. I joined this resolution to encourage people in places like Mississippi to become proactive in understanding their health…

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Murphy Resolution To Protect Children In Conflict Zones

Oct 20, 2019 Stephen Krauchick

MURPHY INTRODUCES RESOLUTION TO PROTECT EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN IN CONFLICT ZONES WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Thursday introduced a resolution that affirms the importance of access to safe, quality education—including protection from attacks on schools—for children in conflict zones. U.S. Representatives Nita Lowey (D-NY-17) and Steve Chabot (R-OH-1) introduced the House version of this resolution in April. “As civil wars in places like Syria to the Democratic Republic of Congo rage on for years on end, children who are out of school risk becoming a lost generation, more vulnerable to human trafficking, child marriage, and recruitment by armed groups. That’s exactly why we must preserve access to safe, quality education for children all around the world,…

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Attorney General Wants Loan Forgiveness For Art Students

Oct 17, 2019 Stephen Krauchick

Hartford, CT) – Attorney General William Tong has joined a bipartisan coalition of 30 state attorneys general urging U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to expand loan forgiveness eligibility for students who were enrolled in schools operated by the Dream Center Education Holdings, LLC (DCEH). The letter details extraordinary misconduct and mismanagement by DCEH, which prevented students from obtaining degrees, and unfairly left them to repay federal student-loan debt from their time attending the failed schools. Click here to download the letter. At the time the schools closed on March 8, 2019, there were 49 Connecticut students enrolled in online programs through Argosy University and the Art Institutes. Those students are eligible to have their federal student loans discharged. Attorney General Tong…

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Blumenthal Statement On Vintage Aircraft

Oct 7, 2019 Stephen Krauchick

HARTFORD, CT) – Today, in a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Stephen Dickson, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, highlighted concerns and questioned the agency’s safety inspection requirements for vintage planes. On October 2, 2019, a vintage Boeing B-17G, owned by the Collings Foundation (Collings), crashed at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut resulting in the loss of at least seven lives and multiple injuries. A previously unreleased FAA document from March 2018 revealed the FAA granted Collings’ petition to extend and amend Exemption No. 6540 – allowing the organization to carry passengers on its vintage aircraft for compensation to defray the cost of operating and maintaining its planes. However, it…

Olympic Reform

$26 MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDING TO ASSIST LOW-INCOME STUDENTS SUCCEED IN COLLEGE

Vaping Seminar Held In Fairfield By Attorney General

Veterans Honored

Governor Receives Plan On Harmful Gas

Murphy Wants Bill To Accommodate Students From Puerto Rico

Health Literacy Month

Murphy Resolution To Protect Children In Conflict Zones

Attorney General Wants Loan Forgiveness For Art Students

Blumenthal Statement On Vintage Aircraft

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