Richard Blumenthal: “I should state for the record my own view that there really should be no requirement as to a pay for when we are taking…”

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

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

“After all those horrific deaths and public outcry, we were told DHS was going to change,” he said. “Again and again, those promises were proven false.”

Despite my bipartisan amendment to increase conference access, the legislation still does not adequately promote vigorous competition among teams and conferences and instead preserves the exclusive club of the current Power Four membership…