January 9, 2006
Washington, DC - Senators Dodd and Lieberman today announced that the Navy has awarded an $85 million contract to Electric Boat for work on the attack submarine USS TEXAS.

At this time of year, as we gather with the ones we love and give thanks for all that we have, our thoughts also turn to those most in need. They may be people we know or people we've never met: families who can't afford to heat their homes during the cold winter months or pay their health care bills; children struggling to learn in broken and overcrowded schools; or working men and women who will receive pink slips instead of pay checks in their holiday mail this year. They may also be among the hundreds of thousands of Americans who suffered extraordinary losses in the destruction wreaked by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.

December 19, 2005

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Energy prices seem to be coming down a little bit, but I find that somewhat ironic that when you begin talking about having an excess profits rebate to people, and you get people like the majority leader of the United States Senate, and Senator Judd Gregg, a conservative senator from New Hampshire, start talking about profits along with the rest of us who’ve raised these issues for weeks, then all of a sudden, the industry finds a way to bring their prices down.