Legislative Year Draws to Close; State Lawmakers Avoid Hot-Button Issues
New Haven Register › March 12, 2007
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The General Assembly wrapped up its election-year legislative session Wednesday night in the same cautious, incumbent-friendly fashion that characterized most of their work in 2006. The legislature's last major piece of fiscal business for the session - authorization of new state borrowing to fund hundreds of millions of dollars in state and local projects - appeared unlikely to win approval by midnight.
Lawmakers did pass a flurry of minor bills in the closing hours leading up to their midnight adjournment deadline. But controversial bills that threatened to trigger lengthy debates or become divisive campaign issues never made it to a vote.See the full content of this document
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Legislative Year Draws to Close; State Lawmakers Avoid Hot-Button Issues
When your re-election rate is more than 90 percent, as is the case with Connecticut's legislature, or you have a 77 percent approval rating, like Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell, it doesn't pay to take too many chances on...
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