Press Releases

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• 1/8/2018 Gov. Malloy Announces His Intention to Nominate Andrew J. McDonald to Serve as Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that in the coming weeks he intends to nominate Justice Andrew J. McDonald to serve as Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

• 1/3/2018 Gov Malloy and Lt Gov Wyman Statements on Decision by Treasurer Nappier to Not Seek Re-Election

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman today released the following statements regarding State Treasurer Denise L. Nappier’s decision to not seek re-election.

• 1/8/2018 What They’re Saying: Elected Officials and Community Leaders Show Support for Nomination of Andrew J. McDonald as Chief Justice

  Local and statewide elected officials and community leaders are voicing strong support for Governor Dannel P. Malloy’s plans to nominate Justice Andrew J. McDonald to serve as Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. Here's what they're saying.

• 1/18/2018 Gov. Malloy and Commissioner Smith Statements on Amazon

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Catherine Smith released the following statements regarding Amazon.

• 1/24/2018 Gov. Malloy Statement on Economic Growth

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy released the following statement regarding a report released today from the U.S. Department of Commerce, which found that Connecticut’s economy grew 3.9 percent during the third quarter of 2017, among the fastest of all U.S. states.

• 1/31/2018 Gov. Malloy Outlines Proposal to Stabilize Special Transportation Fund

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today released the outline of his administration’s revenue package to stabilize the Special Transportation Fund (STF) and allow for critical investments in the state’s transportation system to take place. Implementation of the administration’s plan for the STF would restore canceled state and municipal projects across Connecticut, and would prevent drastic increases in rail and bus fares and major service reductions on Metro-North, Shore Line East, and CTtransit bus services.

• 1/11/2018 Gov. Malloy: Trump’s Immigration Statement ‘Rooted in Racism and Intolerance’

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy released the following statement regarding comments on immigration reported to have been made by President Trump.

• 1/4/2018 Gov. Malloy: All State Employees Should Report to Work as Scheduled

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy this afternoon announced that state offices will open on time tomorrow – Friday, January 5, 2018 – following clean-up from the major winter storm that impacted the state today. All third-shift state employees should report to work as regularly scheduled tonight. All first and second-shift state employees should report to work as scheduled Friday morning.

• 1/9/2018 Gov. Malloy Announces ‘Rate of Fire Enhancements Ban’ Legislative Proposal

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that he is proposing legislation to ban the purchase and sale of “rate of fire enhancements,” including bump stocks, binary trigger systems and trigger cranks. This legislative proposal will build upon Connecticut’s smart, commonsense, and nationally recognized gun reform legislation.

• 1/12/2018 Gov. Malloy: Flag of Haiti Raised at the Governor’s Residence

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today directed the flag of Haiti to be flown at the Governor’s Residence in Hartford in solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of Haitian-Americans and all other immigrant groups who live in the United States and who have been so crudely and wrongly disparaged by President Trump.

• 1/24/2018 Gov. Malloy Announces $1.6 Million Federal Bonus for SNAP Food Aid Program

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a $1.6 million performance bonus to the State of Connecticut for being among the top states for enrolling eligible households in the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP).

• 1/14/2018 Gov. Malloy & Lt. Gov. Wyman Statements on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman released the following statements commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

• 1/16/2018 Gov. Malloy Selects Thomas J. Saadi as Veterans Affairs Commissioner

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that he is nominating Thomas J. Saadi of Danbury to serve as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA).

• 1/17/2018 Gov. Malloy Statement on National Report Showing Connecticut is a Leader in Reducing Gun Violence

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy released the following statement regarding the release of a national report today from the Violence Policy Center, which found that Connecticut ranks as one of the states with the lowest rates of gun deaths in 2016 and is among a handful of states that are seeing a decline in the rate of gun deaths.

• 1/17/2018 Gov. Malloy Statement on State Supreme Court Ruling in CCJEF V. Rell

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today released the following statement in response to the Connecticut Supreme Court’s ruling in the education funding case Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding, Inc. v. Rell.