John McKinney

John McKinney and Larry Cafero, Republican leaders in the General Assembly, are senselessly taking fire from their right flank for being good legislators. Their offense? They worked across party lines after the Sandy Hook massacre to write, with the...

The historic votes on gun control during the last few weeks — in the General Assembly and in the U.S. Senate — have exposed deep fissures among Connecticut Republicans strugging to define their moderate brand of politics. Some Republicans...

Former Republican gubernatorial nominee Tom Foley returned to the state Capitol Tuesday to resume his push for a highly controversial bill that would ban certain conflicts of interest by state legislators. At a news conference, Foley announced that 11...

If anyone’s wondering why GOP lawmakers in this day and age are so reluctant to vote for what most Americans consider sensible gun control, consider what’s happening in this moderate state of ours, home of the Newtown gun massacre. Down in...

Tom Foley is not giving up. Despite facing a huge buzzsaw of opposition over his bill on conflicts of interest, the former Republican gubernatorial nominee is pushing ahead to resurrect the measure before the session ends on June 5. At a news...

The legislature's Appropriations Committee is proposing a biennial budget that would spend $10 million more than the governor proposed for fiscal year 2014 and $38 million more in fiscal year 2015. The budget -- which proposes spending $21.5 billion...

The state Senate voted Thursday to give the Board of Regents for Higher Education the power to choose its own president. Under current state law, the board recommends candidates for president, but the appointment is up to the governor. The measure...

HARTFORD — Flanked by family members of Newtown massacre victims and the legislative leaders who spent months trying to respond to their tragedy, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed a sweeping gun-control bill Thursday whose big provisions — such...

Lawmakers in Connecticut, the site of the Dec. 14 massacre that renewed a national debate over gun control, passed a bipartisan measure that increases background checks for buyers and bans the sale of semiautomatic rifles like the one used in Newtown&...

Connecticut lawmakers gave final approval early Thursday to a wide-ranging bill that includes sweeping new restrictions on weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines, a response to last year's deadly school shooting in Newtown that one lawmaker...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — With an announcement of sweeping proposals to curb gun violence, Connecticut lawmakers said they are hoping to send a message to Congress and other state legislators across the country: A bipartisan agreement on gun control is...

Last week I testified before the General Assembly on a bill that would make it a crime for a public official or state employee to receive more than $1,000 from a state contractor, public employee union, lobbyist or a business that is paid to lobby for...