Richard Blumenthal: “I'm going to ask that a letter from my Connecticut colleague Congressman Jim Himes be entered into the record in support…”

This disaster declaration is a strong step toward bringing federal aid to Connecticut following severe floods last month.

After all the years I’ve spent working on this issue, I could never for one minute trust the NCAA to police itself.

It’s illogical, illegal, intolerable — and that’s in effect what the court found.

The circumstances in which AWDC gifted this ring, and the lack of clarity about its disposition, raise significant questions about whether the President has in fact accepted the ring as part of a quid pro quo agreement to reduce diamond…