Senate President Donald WilliamsSoon after Attorney General Richard Blumenthal criticized them for not doing enough, state legislative leaders touted their successes Thursday. “Consumers should be appalled and angry their legislators have failed to debate or vote, let alone approve, a single significant energy proposal,” Blumenthal said Thursday. Blumenthal said the legislature should return for a […]

Three minutes before the clock struck midnight Wednesday evening, the House followed the Senate’s lead and passed a campaign finance reform bill with most of the promises they agreed to early Wednesday afternoon. But the House which had been trying since about 6 p.m. to strike a deal with Republicans failed when Rep. David McCluskey, […]

These two powerful Democrats took credit at the state Capitol Wednesday for putting together a last-minute drive to fix Connecticut’s clean-elections law. In the process, they were revealed as the state’s chief impediments to clean government.The man in the top photo is Jim Amman, speaker of the state House of Representatives. Below him is Don […]

In the last few hours of the legislative session it remains to be seen if state lawmakers will fix campaign finance reform and limit the amount of money leadership political action committees can give to publicly financed campaigns. The Connecticut Citizens Action Group, Common Cause, and the League of Women Voters has advocated for changes […]