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Funds Will Advance Transit-Oriented Development in Enfield, Newington, North Haven, West Hartford, Windsor and Windsor Locks

HARTFORD, CT – The members of Connecticut’s Congressional delegation and Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that the State of Connecticut has been awarded $700,000 grant from the Federal Transit Administration to conduct a study of transit-oriented development (TOD) opportunities in the New Haven-Hartford-Springfield rail corridor, also known as the Hartford Line. The federal funding will be matched by $200,000 in state funds.

Hartford, CT – The Connecticut Congressional delegation today applauded five federal grants from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Supportive Services for Veteran Families program to support outreach, case management and other work in Connecticut to prevent veteran homelessness and to rapidly re-house those who become homeless.

Will Tour New Haven’s Hispanic-owned businesses next week

NEW HAVEN, CT—Today Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) joined millions of Americans in celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from September 15 through October 15. Next week she will meet with the Spanish American Merchants Association and tour Hispanic-owned businesses on Grand Avenue. More details on that event will be forthcoming.

HARTFORD, CT – Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that over 20 Connecticut communities have been awarded grants by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) to prevent youth substance use and be used to support Connecticut’s Second Chance-related initiatives.

For Families Living At Church Street South

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) today wrote to the United States Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) in support of the City of New Haven’s request for at least 100 more housing vouchers. The vouchers would be used to re-house displaced families from the Church Street South housing complex. The letter can be read in its entirety here.

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today applauded the U.S. Department of Education’s announcement that they have approved Connecticut’s plan to ensure all students have access to excellent teachers. DeLauro is the senior Democrat on the subcommittee responsible for funding the Department of Education.

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) wrote to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew today, in the wake of three corporate inversions in just the last month, urging him to publish an annual list of inverted companies and use executive authority to crack down on these tax avoidance schemes. Inversions occur when U.S.

Hartford, CT) - U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and U.S. Reps. John Larson (D-1), Joe Courtney (D-2), Rosa DeLauro (D-3), Jim Himes (D-4), and Elizabeth Esty (D-5) today applauded $1.4 million in new federal funds for the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection to help reduce the backlog of unsubmitted or untested sexual assault kits.