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Keeping Student Loan Rates Low Benefits All
If it is spring, it is the time of flowers, showers and congressional bloodletting over federal student loan interest rates, set to rise in July. Again. Last year, the federal act expired that had kept federally subsidized Stafford student loan rates...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Money and Monetary Policy, Parties and Movements, U.S. House of Representatives, Students
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CT House Delegation: No Apologies For Spending, Regulation
The Hartford CourantThe message was clear Thursday as Connecticut's five representatives in the U.S. House gathered in Hartford to talk about economic matters. We need to invest. We need to spend. Whether it's high-speed rail, advanced airline navigation systems, basic...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Litigation and Regulation, John B. Larson, Fairfield County, Health Insurance Cost
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Congress Flies Through A Fix – To Help Congress
It's nice that Congress managed to unclog the air routes by un-sequestering air traffic controllers at small airports such as Tweed in New Haven, but really, the gesture is less than public-spirited. Former state Rep. Patrick J. Flaherty, now an...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, Air Transportation Industry, Head Start
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CT Delegation Springs To Defend Bases
There won't be a new round of military base closures in 2015 if members of Connecticut's congressional delegation have anything to say about it. And, true to form, they have plenty to say about it. In his new defense budget, released April 10, President...Tags: Barack Obama, Military Equipment, Chris Murphy, New London (New London, Connecticut), U.S. Navy
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Courtney eyes surplus equipment during Afghanistan trip
The Day, New London, Conn.In Afghanistan this weekend, Congressman Joe Courtney said he saw billions of dollars of equipment already packed and ready to be shipped home. Inside a Kabul storage depot, Courtney said, there was a massive parking area lined with Stryker vehicles,...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Barack Obama, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Armed Forces, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Obama's Defense Budget Good For State Contractors, A Challenge For Sub Base
The Hartford CourantThere's good news for Connecticut in most, but not all, of the defense budget that President Barack Obama released Wednesday. The spending plan still supports the same two Virginia Class submarines ordered from Electric Boat as well as spending on the...Tags: Shipbuilding, Barack Obama, Military Equipment, U.S. House of Representatives, Defense
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Blumenthal, Courtney: Say 'No' To Majority Of CL&P Storm Costs
The Hartford CourantU.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Rep. Joe Courtney urged the state's utility regulator Monday to dock Connecticut Light & Power most of the $414 million in storm costs it wants to recover from ratepayers. "In what other line of business would a company...Tags: Tropical Storms, Weather, Hurricane Irene (2011), Weather Reports, Snow Storms
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Newtown Bicyclists Arrive In D.C. To Press For Gun Control
The Hartford CourantWASHINGTON — Twenty-six cyclists arrived Tuesday at the Capitol after a four-day ride from Newtown, bringing a plea for tighter gun limits to a reluctant Congress. "Here's our message: Please put politics aside and get it done," said Monte Frank...Tags: Mike Thompson, John B. Larson, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Elizabeth Esty, Gun Control
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Fallece soldado de Connecticut en Afganistán
El Hartford CourantEl Capitán del Ejército, Andrew Pedersen-Keel, quien había vivido en Madison y graduado de la escuela Avon Old Farms, fue asesinado mientras cumplía con su deber en Afganistán el lunes, dijo la primera concejal de Madison, Fillmore McPherson. Su familia...Tags: Avon (Hartford, Connecticut), Madison (New Haven, Connecticut), Dannel P. Malloy , Human Interest, West Point
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State Manufacturers Welcome Revamp To Federal Export Rules
The Hartford CourantThe federal government's complex, overgrown system of export regulations is at long last getting a haircut, a step received warmly by Connecticut manufacturers. President Barack Obama last week took the first hack at simplifying the country's export...Tags: Environmental Issues, Barack Obama, Conservation, Colchester, Robert Gates
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Electric Boat Production Levels Untouched In House Budget Extension
The Hartford CourantThe budget measure passed Wednesday by the U.S. House of Representatives keeps in place funding for the construction of two submarines at Electric Boat's facility in Groton. The extension of the current budget, called a continuing resolution, passed by a...Tags: Elections, Shipbuilding, U.S. House of Representatives, Manufacturing and Engineering, U.S. Senate
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Will "Lincoln" error spoil its Oscar shot?
Connecticut congressman Joe Courtney pointed out a historic blooper in the film “Lincoln” -- and some Hollywood experts wonder if the resultant fuss will mar the film’s shot at a best-picture Oscar. (Some even wonder if Joe Courtney is...
Tags: Lincoln (movie, 2012), Ben Affleck, The Washington Post, Movies, Tony Kushner
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