SACRAMENTO, California, June 6 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release: On the anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut, which protected the right to use contraception, Republicans in the U.S. Senate killed the Right to Contraception Act. In the wake of the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, the so-called "Freedom Party" broke with the majority of Americans and blocked a bill that would have protected access to birth control across the country. "Republicans  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 5 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont, who serves as chairman of the State Bond Commission, today announced that he has scheduled the commission to vote at an upcoming meeting on the approval of an allocation of $187,500 in state funding that will be used to install pumps at Jobs Pond in Portland to address an ongoing situation in which rising groundwater has been causing flooding in nearby neighborhoods. The pum  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, June 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on June 4, 2024: United States Attorney Vanessa Roberts Avery today announced new supervisory appointments within the U.S. Attorney's Office and the office's Criminal Division, which were necessitated by the departure of First Assistant U.S. Attorney Alfred U. Pavlis last month. Marc H. Silverman has been named First Assistant U.S. Attorney, the second-ranking pos  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, June 6 -- The Pennsylvania Senate Democrats issued the following news release: Senator Amanda M. Cappelletti (D-Montgomery/Delaware) introduced Senate Bill 1224, legislation that would require that a state prison, or a state or county detention center provide voice communication services free of charge to incarcerated persons initiating or receiving communications. Currently, phone services in prisons and jails are currently operated by for-profit companies that pay a  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, June 6 -- The Pennsylvania Senate Democrats issued the following news release on June 5, 2024: This week, Senator Hughes shared a co-sponsorship memo to introduce new legislation designed to support public sector unions in the Commonwealth. The legislation would establish the Public Employer Disclosure Act (PEDA) which would statutorily require the periodic transmission of public employee information to public sector unions. The information shared with public sector u  more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- President Biden issued the following statement on June 5, 2024, on Senate Republicans blocking nationwide efforts to safeguard access to contraception: * * * Senate Republicans just refused to protect a woman's right to birth control. This is the second time since the Supreme Court's extreme decision to overturn Roe v. Wade that Congressional Republicans have refused to safeguard this fundamental right for women in every state. It's unacceptable. Today's vote comes two d  more