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Courtney Rallies Support To Prevent Student Loan Rate Hike
U.S. Rep. Joseph Courtney was in Connecticut on Monday to try to muster the momentum that last summer forced a one-year extension of the 3.4 percent rate on federally subsidized Stafford student loans. Like last year, the rate will jump to 6.8 percent on...Tags: Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Loans, Education, U.S. Congress
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Lawmakers Tout Transportation Spending As Boon For Economy
The Hartford CourantIn a time of economic sluggishness and calls for belt-tightening in both state and federal budgets, some in Connecticut's Congressional delegation insist that the right answer is to spend more, particularly on roads, bridges, railways and other projects...Tags: National Transportation Safety Board, Railway Transportation, Richard Blumenthal, Transportation Industry, U.S. Congress
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Covert Government Surveillance Draws Criticism Of State's Congressional Delegation
The Hartford CourantThe seven Democrats who make up the state's congressional delegation are among President Obama's most steadfast defenders and friends. But they have been swift to offer sharp criticism after newspapers revealed the administration's sweeping government...Tags: Barack Obama, Chris Murphy, American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Congress
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Connecticut Soldiers Return Wednesday, First Of Several Homecomings This Summer
Soldiers from the 143rd Military Police Company of West Hartford returned from a year-long deployment in Afghanistan Wednesday, the first of several homecomings that will occur this summer as the military continues its exit strategy from America's longest...
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Obama Proposes Student Loan Reform
Federally-subsidized student loan interest rates are set to double in one month, and President Barack Obama on Friday pressured Congress to keep those rates low for millions of college students. The federal Stafford student loan interest rate is 3.4...Tags: Barack Obama, Wethersfield, Loans, Bonds, Education
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Why Add Higher Rates To Student Loan Burden?
Congress has until July 1 to pass a bill that keeps interest rates on subsidized federal student Stafford loans from doubling from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. But instead of fixing the problem, the Republican-controlled House passed a bill mostly along...Tags: Finance, Federal Reserve, Loans, Politics, U.S. Congress
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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: Parties and Movements, U.S. Congress, Paul Ryan, Money and Monetary Policy, Teaching and Learning
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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: Jim Himes, Aetna Inc., Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Financial and Business Services, U.S. Congress
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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: Unemployment Benefits, U.S. Senate, Politics, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Air Transportation Industry
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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, New London (New London, Connecticut), Chris Murphy, Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Department of Defense
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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: Barack Obama, Budgets and Budgeting, Richard Blumenthal, Groton, 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: Weather Reports, Northeast Utilities, Ottawa Senators, Tropical Storms, Electricity Production and Distribution
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