State Legislature in Spending Race; Lawmakers' Staff and Budget Match Executive Branch's Growth.

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Connecticut's government keeps growing and spending in big ways and small. In the past 10 years, overall state spending has increased from $9.5 billion to $16.1 billion. This month, the legislature met in a special session for one hour to pass a nonbinding resolution to meet at an unspecified date in January on prison reforms. The cost of the session was more than $65,000.

The lawmakers couldn't wait for workers to finish installing a sprinkler system at the Capitol; instead they paid workers overtime and double overtime to remove scaffolding that then had to be reinstalled after the session, which also formally closed an earlier session on state bonding.

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State Legislature in Spending Race; Lawmakers' Staff and Budget Match Executive Branch's Growth.

The legislative branch in recent decades ...

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