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Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), Congressman John Larson (D-1), Congressman Joe Courtney (D-2), Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-3), Congressman Jim Himes (D-4), and Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty (D-5) announced more than $3 million in federal grants under the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program to prevent veteran homelessness in Connecticut. The grants will provide access to critical services to help very low-income veterans’ families avoid homelessnes

Today, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) issued the following statement on the Obama Administration’s final version of America’s Clean Power Plan

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty (D-5) today applauded the selection of Meriden by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as one of 27 ConnectHome communities nationwide establishing new partnerships to expand broadband access to low-income families

Senator Danté Bartolomeo (D-Meriden) joined Governor Dannel P. Malloy in announcing that the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) will award a grant for the remediation and redevelopment of a blighted site in downtown Meriden. The $1,725,000 grant will be used to rehabilitate the former Record-Journal building at 11 Crown Street.

U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Congressman Jim Himes (D-4) today announced $2.4 million in grant funds awarded to The WorkPlace of Bridgeport, which will be used towards improving opportunities for adults and youths who have been involved in the criminal justice system. The WorkPlace is an organization that is geared towards strengthening and developing the Connecticut workforce.

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) urged his colleagues on the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee (EPW) to ensure there is a long-term, robust commitment to infrastructure investment in the surface transportation bill, which the committee is planning to mark up on Wednesday. In a letter to Chairman James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Ranking Member Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Blumenthal cited the dire state of America’s crumbling roads and bridges and the urgent need to prioritize long-term infrastructure funding

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined a bipartisan coalition of eleven Senators in introducing legislation to establish a new infrastructure financing authority to help states and localities better leverage private funds to build and maintain the nation’s outdated infrastructure. The Building and Renewing Infrastructure for Development and Growth in Employment (BRIDGE) Act helps to address the nation’s alarming investment shortfall in maintaining and improving our transportation network, water and wastewater systems and energy infrastructure

State Senator Beth Bye (D-West Hartford) and state Representative Toni Walker (D-New Haven), the co-chairs of the Appropriations Committee, today unveiled the Democratic Appropriations Committee budget proposal for the State of Connecticut for Fiscal Years 2016-2017, which begins July 1.

WASHINGTON, DC - March 30, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senators Joseph Lieberman and Richard Blumenthal and Congressman Jim Himes announced a $108,384 grant today that will assist homeless veterans in Bridgeport with permanent housing and support. The grant will provide 10 of Bridgeport’s homeless veterans with housing vouchers, as well as clinical and supportive services through the West Haven VA Medical Center.

December 19, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- State Senator Joan V. Hartley (D-Waterbury) today announced final approval for—and allocation of—state funding to assist with two...

March 11, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- State Senator Joseph J. Crisco, Jr. (D-Woodbridge), Senate chair of the legislature’s Insurance and Real Estate Committee, today praised committee approval of a bill meant to prohibit ‘private transfer fees’ in Connecticut. The relatively new financing plan, already restricted or subject to outright bans in 19 states, amounts to a private sector conveyance fee, adding undue cost to the sale of property, Senator Crisco said.

March 8, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Amidst national reports of shoddy paperwork processing that led to suspended foreclosure proceedings at many major lenders, state Senator Anthony Musto (D-Trumbull) is pushing legislation that would require banks to perfect their legal right to property before they can file a foreclosure action.

December 9, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- State Senator Joseph J. Crisco, Jr. (D-Woodbridge) and Rep. Themis Klarides (R-Derby) today announced the imminent release of state funding to assist affected Woodbridge homeowners near the West River, where shifting ground, settling, and subsidence has caused property damage.

New Haven, CT - July 22, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney (D-New Haven) and Senator Toni Harp (D-New Haven) joined New Haven Mayor John DeStefano; State Rep. Juan Candelaria; representatives from the ROOF (Real Options Overcoming Foreclosure) Project, and the Connecticut Fair Housing Center, and residents who have faced foreclosure for a news conference in New Haven today to announce that the state’s landmark foreclosure mediation program is being extended for another two years.

July 14, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- State Senator Joseph J. Crisco, Jr. (D-Woodbridge), and state Representative Linda Gentile (D-Ansonia) today announced final approval for significant state funding to help secure property that will become the future home of the (Naugatuck) Valley Regional Fire Training School. The lawmakers said a total of $950,000 is now available to purchase property in Beacon Falls for the project