Lisa Hagen

Veterans were planning to celebrate the passage this week of a bipartisan bill to expand benefits for those exposed to burn pits and toxins when they served. But a delay prompted by Senate Republicans is indefinitely stalling that access for veterans in Connecticut and across the country.

Connecticut Democrats are vying to hold their presidential primary earlier in 2024, an effort to play a more influential role in the process of selecting the nominee.

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy believes attempts to overturn the 2024 presidential election will be more “organized” and “sophisticated” than they were in 2020, which is why he joined the bipartisan effort to ensure a more peaceful transfer of power between presidents.

Themis Klarides is competing in a three-way Republican Senate primary in a few weeks, but the convention-endorsed candidate is already starting to pivot to the general election fight against potential rival U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal in a newly released ad.

Themis Klarides raised the most of any Connecticut Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in the second fundraising quarter of 2022, once again maintaining her edge in campaign contributions, while her two competitors continued to inject more of their own money into the race.

Connecticut Democrats in Washington are all aligned on the same priority: protecting access to abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. But some in the delegation see different paths to securing those protections.