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Navy Awards $17.6 Billion Contract For Sub Work at Electric Boat, Newport News
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy on Monday awarded a $17.6 billion contract for 10 more Virginia-class, nuclear-powered attack submarines to General Dynamics Corp. and its major subcontractor, Huntington...
View ArticleObama claims Connecticut superdelegate
by Jesse A. Hamilton Though he had said he was going to wait until the last of the primaries was over, Connecticut's Rep. Joe Courtney decided to instead make his pick for a Democratic candidate clear...
View ArticleFoster, Hultgren, Holt Lead Bipartisan Effort To Protect Funding For National...
Washington, D.C. - Representatives Bill Foster (IL-11), Randy Hultgren (IL-14) and Rush Holt (NJ-12) led a bipartisan group of 81 Members of Congress in calling for robust and sustained funding for the...
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Ten Subs For The Price Of Nine And A Push For Separate Budget For Ohio-Class...
Now that the Navy has signed the largest shipbuilding contract in its history with Electric Boat, the service will save $2 billion and get 10 attack submarines for roughly the price of nine. At the...
View ArticleObama Urges Increase In Minimum Wage At Rally
NEW BRITAIN — In a campaign-style event, President Barack Obama made a rousing appeal for a higher minimum wage Wednesday at a packed pep rally at Central Connecticut State University, saying that it...
View ArticleThumbs Up For Senators, Down For Senate
Thumbs up to U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney of Connecticut, both of whom have fought hard for student-loan relief for students and their families. Thanks in part to their...
View ArticleEB Contractor Summit Lures 300 Companies
A contractor summit connecting Connecticut businesses to opportunities coming out of Electric Boat's new multi-year $17.6 billion submarine contract with the Navy, originally expected to attract a few...
View ArticleLegislators Call On Congress To Reverse Plum Island Mandate
A group of Connecticut and New York lawmakers is calling on Congress to reverse a mandate requiring the sale of the federally controlled Plum Island in Long Island Sound. The island, which rests to the...
View ArticleCheese Wars: Connecticut's Cheese Makers Are On The Front Lines
— Elizabeth Gillman stood in Cato Corner Farm's calf barn one recent weekend morning, white-haired and clad in old blue jeans and a baggy shirt, and she had more on her mind than routine worries about...
View ArticleObama llega a Connecticut para rally sobre salarios
El Presidente Barack Obama llegó al Aeropuerto Internacional Bradley, poco después del mediodÃa del miércoles para una concentración vendida en Central Connecticut State University diseñada para...
View ArticleHighway Bill Dashes Hopes for Long-term Unemployed
WASHINGTON--The overwhelming approval this week of a House bill that would temporarily replenish a federal road-building fund has faded hopes Congress will come to the aid of the long-term unemployed...
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