State senator, dad, friend to dogs. Serving Middletown, Newington, Cromwell, Rocky Hill and Wethersfield Connecticut. Admiral in the Nebraska Navy.
Middletown, CT
Joined October 2008
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I'm grateful to @GovNedLamont's steady focus on drug affordability - and for his strong partnership in our bipartisan Rx affordability legislation.
Connecticut is now leading the country - this is the first law of its kind, now saving real money.
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Drug price increases are out of control. Last year, I took on Big Pharma and wrote a law that limits generic price increases to inflation.
Drug distributors sued.
TODAY, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld our law, a HUGE win for @AGWilliamTong and consumers everywhere.
At least they're being honest. This was always about legal immigration.
PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT.
@NYTimes: 'The Trump administration cut legal immigration in half early this year with policies blocking visas for immigrants from nearly half the globe.'
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As of October 1st, states must pay 75% of SNAP’s administrative costs vs 50% when the law was first enacted a year ago.
We asked several scholars who study the SNAP program closely to shed light on the implications these cuts will have on workers, families, and economic growth.
This isn't complicated. If you make it more expensive to administer SNAP (which Trump just did) states will do less administering of SNAP.
That wouldn't help here. In fact, Connecticut is now incentivized to reduce administrative oversight of the program, which increases the chances of someone fraudulently receiving benefits
Government programs can help survivors escape traffickers by reducing their coercive control. Cutting those programs effectively helps human traffickers.
Should we be surprised that Donald Trump - who protected Jeffrey Epstein and his associates - is once again revictimizing survivors of human trafficking?
Today the President kicked over a dozen lawful Connecticut residents who survived human trafficking off of their Medicaid.
A massive unfunded mandate on everyone in Connecticut.
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Four young people taken by ICE at Tweed and Bradley in three weeks. No criminal records. All here legally. Held two to three weeks, then released, because there was never a case to begin with. Per CT Mirror, 800 have been taken at US airports.
Matt Lesser retweeted
Unfortunately for Republicans, the situation is very easy to describe:
1. Trump won a cost-of-living election
2. Then he publicly announced a plan to raise the price of imports
3. Then he even-more-publicly started a war that raised the price of gas
4. Meanwhile, he got rich on crypto scams, while engaging in downright Pynchonian misadventures with the reflecting pool and ballroom, which sent the unmistakeable signal that "I care more about random bullshit than America's money problems ... and also I'm not even good at executing on the random bullshit"
How could anyone pass this test?
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