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12, 2017
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BREAKING NEWS
NEW YORK TIMES REPORTS
Senate Takes Major
Step Toward Repealing Health Care Law - The New York
Times
By THOMAS KAPLAN and ROBERT PEAR JAN. 12, 2017
WASHINGTON Senate Republicans took their first major step
toward repealing the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, approving a budget
blueprint that would allow them to gut the health care
law without the threat of a
Democratic filibuster.
The vote was 51 to 48. During the roll call, Democrats
staged a highly unusual protest on the Senate floor to express their dismay and
anger at the prospect that millions of Americans could lose health
insurance coverage.
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NEWSMAX REPORTS
Trump Asks Vaccine
Skeptic Robert Kennedy Jr. to Probe Vaccine Safety
January 11, 2017
Vaccination skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he would
chair a presidential panel to review vaccine safety and science at U.S.
President-elect Donald Trump's request, drawing fierce criticism from vaccine experts
who fear such a panel would give credence to debunked theories tying childhood
immunizations to autism. Continue reading at http://www.newsmax.com/Health/Health-News/Trump-Robert-Kennedy-skeptic-vaccine/2017/01/11/id/767926/
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CTMirror.org Reports
Malloy wont reassure CT towns they are safe from the budget axe
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy offered
worried municipal leaders Wednesday no assurances they would be spared from
cuts to local aid as he and the General Assembly grapple with another major
deficit in the next state budget.
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CTNEWSJUNKIE.COM Reports
General Assembly Will
Vote On Pension Deal
by Christine
Stuart | Jan 11, 2017 1:25pm
Posted to: State Budget | Pensions | State Capitol
HARTFORD, CT The Senate, according
to a spokesman, is scheduled to vote Feb. 1 on a deal to level the pension
payments to the State Employees Retirement System.
Continue reading "General Assembly Will Vote On Pension Deal"
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HARTFORD COURANT REPORTS
Editorial Contact
Reporter
Legislators cheat taxpayers by padding their pensions with
mileage reimbursements. They should stop feathering their retirement nests this
way. It's unfair to ask constituents to pay for perks most don't get
themselves. And it's wrong for legislators to get such perks while the state is
in financial crisis.
Courant columnist Kevin Rennie has
railed against this freebie for
years as a former Republican state senator who never claimed mileage
reimbursements.
Trumbull First Selectman Timothy Herbst
took up the torch recently, looking at the mileage reports of a handful of
Democratic senators. (It should be noted that legislators on both sides of the
aisle have taken advantage of this fringe benefit.) Mr. Herbst
found that Sen. Joseph Crisco Jr. had been reimbursed more
than $105,681 over a decade before losing his re-election bid last
November. Continue reading at http://www.courant.com/opinion/editorials/hc-ed-legislators-feathering-retirement-nests-with-mileage-20170109-story.html
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