This Week in Congress: May 20, 2013
This week, the House of Representatives is expected to consider 12 bills, ranging from veterans benefits to student loan rates. Legislation under consideration this week includes: Stolen Valor Act (H.R. 258): narrows the scope of the Stolen Valor...
This Week in Congress: May 13, 2013
This week, the House is expected to consider 10 bills, ranging from veterans housing to domestic energy production. Legislation under consideration this week includes: National Blue Alert Act of 2013 (H.R. 180): establishes a national communications...
This Week in Congress: May 6, 2013
This week, the House is expected to consider five bills, ranging from land management to the federal debt. Congress will also meet in a Joint Session to hear an address by South Korean President Park Geun-hye. Legislation under consideration this...
Preventing Workplace Discrimination
Today, I was proud to join over 150 of my colleagues in the House of Representatives on both sides of the aisle in reintroducing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). This important bill would make it illegal for companies to discriminate...
This Week in Congress: April 23, 2013
This week, the House is expected to consider six bills, ranging from Congressional Gold Medals to health care. Legislation under consideration this week includes: H.R. 1067: Modifies Title 36, United States Code, which pertains to patriotic and...
Himes Announces $2.5 Million in Grants to Bridgeport for Lead Removal
Funding will be used to address environmental hazards in 110 housing units with children
Himes Statement on Train Collision and NTSB Briefing
BRIDGEPORT, CT – Congressman Jim Himes (CT-4) released the statement below following a briefing this morning with the National Transportation Safety Board, Governor Dannel Malloy, and Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy. "I send my...
VIDEO: Himes Criticizes DOJ for Overbroad Seizure of AP Phone Records
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Jim Himes (CT-4) spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives today to criticize the Department of Justice for seizing two months’ worth of phone records from the Associated Press without notice. A transcript of...
Himes Seeks Answers in DOJ AP Records Seizure, Pledges to Protect 1st Amendment
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Jim Himes (CT-4) released the following statement regarding reports that the Department of Justice secretly obtained two months of media records from the Associated Press: “I am deeply troubled by reports that the...
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Seventeen streams or rivers flow into Long Island Sound along the coast of Connecticut's fourth district. They run through a portion of the massive Long Island Sound watershed, which covers all of Connecticut and parts of five other states.






