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CT-based FuelCell Energy to Create Over 100 New Highly Skilled Manufacturing Jobs
“FuelCell Energy’s recent project awards from DEEP in collaboration with bipartisan legislative approval is synergistic in CT’s commitment to alternative and renewable energy sources that the state was seeking to cultivate when they invested in the company years ago,” said Senator Tony Hwang, Vice Chairman of Energy and Technology Committee. “FuelCell Energy and their supply chain vendors are CT-based businesses that benefit the state by providing clean energy, high-tech manufacturing jobs that are crucial to CT’s economy. FuelCell technology will be an integral part of meeting our alternative and renewable energy goals while lowering consumer energy costs. Connecticut is the world leading innovators of fuel cell technology because of FuelCell Energy.”
In Newtown: Promoting Summer Reading!
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Fairfield Senior Center, 2014 – Tony Hwang had the opportunity and privilege of recognizing the young men, and their families, who will be joining the
(Please read and share this editorial from the Waterbury Republican-American then send me your comments at Tony.Hwang@cga.ct.gov. For the record,I voted to override Gov. Malloy’s vetoes.)
No overrides; no confidence
(Waterbury Republican-American Editorial)
Many in Connecticut entertain the notion that representatives and senators ponder the messages they receive from their constituents, balance those messages against their own lights and political reality, and draft legislation accordingly.
That notion got blasted to smithereens Monday, when lawmakers were unable to muster veto overrides for any of the measures they had passed overwhelmingly just a few months ago.
In all, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy vetoed seven bills during and after the legislative session that ended May 9.
Among them were a bill intended to help teachers maintain order in their classrooms; protect taxpayers statewide from subsidizing Hartford’s irresponsible spending practices; establish a council to oversee the state’s long-troubled Department of Children and Families; ensure that the flow of education cost-sharing grants from the state is reliable and predictable; and expand the availability of apprenticeship tax credits for businesses.
Not to worry, insisted Senate President Pro Tempore Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven.
The legislature upheld the vetoes in response to the “compelling arguments” contained in Gov. Malloy’s veto messages, and the issues addressed by the vetoed bills will be taken up in future legislative sessions.
Let’s back up.
Our wise, all-knowing governor pointed out legal or practical defects in every one of these bills that did not occur to a single one of the 36 senators and 151 House members who were involved with the drafting, debating and voting that took place during the legislative session?
Does anyone in Connecticut, inside or outside of government, believe that?
“This legislation was crafted by legislators on both sides of the aisle coming together to do what was in the best interest of Connecticut residents and taxpayers,” Senate Republican President Pro Tempore Leonard A. Fasano, of North Haven, said days before the failed veto-override attempts.
House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, R-Derby, accused legislative Democrats of playing politics with important legislation.
“The Democrats had a chance to make our classrooms and schools safer, limit the Hartford bailout, and help manufacturers,” she said Tuesday.
“Each time, they opted for politics over public policy, and it is unfortunate.”
Gov. Malloy neither gains nor loses from the veto-override debacle; he’s a deeply unpopular lame duck office-holder.
But legislative Democrats may pay a high price because there is no way to clear the air of the political stench their actions produced.
If one buys Sen. Looney’s point about the power of Gov. Malloy’s veto messages, the inevitable conclusion is that the Democratic Party – with a majority in the House and the tie-breaking vote of Democratic Lt. Gov. Nancy S. Wyman in the evenly divided Senate – is insufficiently competent to discern the deficiencies Gov. Malloy cited.
And did it not occur to Sen. Looney, House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz, D-Berlin, or anyone else to ask the governor his opinion of controversial bills the legislature was considering?
http://www.rep-am.com/opinion/editorials/2018/06/26/no-overrides-no-confidence/
Thank you to Ian Bartlett of Fairfield Ludlowe High School’s Class of 2018 – you are one of our future leaders! Please read and share Ian’s commentary.
https://www.ctpost.com/opinion/article/Ian-Bartlett-Communicating-and-connecting-13024946.php
Sourced from the original article by Sandra Diamond Fox. When state Sen. Tony Hwang was two years old, his father left his home in Taiwan to
Sen. Hwang Condemns New Trump Border Policy;
Urges Congress to “Solve the Problem” and “Lead”
Sen. Tony Hwang on Wednesday issued the following statement regarding the Trump administration’s policy that has resulted in migrant children being separated from their parents at the border.
“Yes, illegal immigration is against the law, but the new enforcement policy is inhumane, it is cruel, and it must end. We can all agree that innocent children must be protected. We can all agree that Congress needs to step up immediately and do its job. Congress: Please do what you were elected to do. Work in a collaborative basis. Solve the problem in a thoughtful, comprehensive, compassionate way. You are our leaders. No more delays. No more posturing. Get to work. As former First Lady Laura Bush recently wrote, ‘Can we not as a nation find a kinder, more compassionate and more moral answer to this current crisis?’ I firmly believe the answer to Laura Bush’s question is ‘yes’. Now is the time for our leaders in Washington, DC to lead.”
Sen. Hwang, an immigrant whose parents escaped Communist China as teens and lived under martial law in Taiwan, has been a consistent and outspoken critic of President Trump’s past documented insults of women, racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants and the disabled. Sen. Hwang has repeatedly stated that the President’s comments and policies can be used to start a public conversation on diversity, tolerance and kindness.
*Sen. Hwang represents Connecticut’s 28th Senatorial District which includes Fairfield, Easton, Weston, Westport, Newtown and Sandy Hook. He can be reached at 800-842-1421 and at Tony.Hwang@cga.ct.gov. On the web: www.SenatorHwang.com.
Original article written by Waterbury Rep-Am. SEBAC deal: UConn students paying the price On Dec. 9, 2015, this column commented on impending tuition increases at
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