Richard Blumenthal: “I introduced the GUARD VA Benefits Act in this Congress with Senator Boozman, Chairman Tester, Senator Graham.”

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

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…

“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.”

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