January 24, 2009

EAST HARTFORD — Daniel Russo is an accomplished professional with several graduate degrees, but at age 57, after losing his job, he fears he will soon have to decide between paying the mortgage or his costly health insurance.

 

The Middletown resident was one of a dozen people who testified Wednesday at a listening tour sponsored by U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who took testimony to bring back to Washington as the Obama administration works toward health care reform.

Just wanted to take a minute and share with you a great post on Connecticut Local Politics:

• For the full post, click here.

EAST HARTFORD — Sen. Chris Dodd, accompanied by Rep. John Larson and a panel of health care experts, held a town-hall style forum today at Goodwin College’s beautiful new riverside campus in East Hartford. The forum was the first of several planned events on Dodd’s health care "listening tour," which is an attempt to gauge public opinion and need before Congress and the administration undertake a major health care initiative.

January 23, 2009

Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), a senior member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) who has been asked by Chairman Kennedy to serve as his chief deputy for health reform, today hosted the first town hall meeting of his Connecticut Prescriptions for Change listening tour.  Approximately 700 Connecticut residents came to Goodwin College in East Hartford this morning to hear from Dodd and a panel of experts and to share their views and ideas for reforming our nation’s health care system.

January 23, 3009

EAST HARTFORD — Blaming the failure to win universal health care in 1993 on a failure to listen to taxpayers, state officials led by U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., are touring the state to hear what people have to say.

 

Around 700 people came Friday to Goodwin College’s Riverside Campus hoping to get the inside story on a universal health care proposal from Dodd, one of the most senior members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), a senior member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) who has been asked by Chairman Kennedy to serve as his chief deputy for health reform, is hosting a series of town hall meetings across Connecticut on the issue. Senator Dodd kicked off his Connecticut Prescriptions for Change listening tour in East Hartford where approximately 700 Connecticut residents came to Goodwin College to hear from Dodd and a panel of experts and to share their views and ideas for reforming our nation’s health care system.

• For the press release on the first event, click here.
• For video from the event, click here.
• For photos from the event, click here.

Senator Dodd is looking for your opinions on how best to reform our health care system and will present your views to HHS Secretary Daschle and President Obama. To share your thoughts, please email ctrx4change@dodd.senate.gov, and stay tuned to Dodd.Senate.Gov to learn how you can participate in future events.

January 16, 2009

U.S. Senators Kit Bond (R-MO) and Christopher Dodd (D-CT) today introduced the Vision Care for Kids Act of 2009 to combat undiagnosed and untreated vision problems in school-aged children.

 

“Good vision is critical to our children’s ability to learn. All children must have the tools they need to succeed and that begins with good vision, which ensures they can see a bright future,” said Bond who understands first-hand the importance of this initiative after suffering from permanent vision loss in one eye as a result of undiagnosed amblyopia during his childhood.

I was honored today to be one of the first to receive the Global Action for Children’s Champion Award.  We all get into public service or become deeply enmeshed in policy issues such as global health for the same reason: To make a difference. And is it ever needed.  Every single day, 27,000 children die from preventable diseases like pneumonia, diarrhea and complications during childbirth, many of which result from malnutrition.  Each year, some 4 million newborns die in the first 4 weeks of life. That’s not just a tragedy – it’s a catastrophe.  I hope you will take a minute and listen to my remarks on this issue and I urge you to do all you can to help children across the world.

January 14, 2009

Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following remarks at the Global Action for Children’s first annual Children’s Champion Award Ceremony.  Dodd was honored for his leadership in passing “The Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008,” and for authoring “The Global Child Survival Act,” which would drastically reduce child and maternal mortality rates abroad. 

January 14, 2009

WASHINGTON -- Three Wilton women urged President-elect Barack Obama and Congress Tuesday to enact legislation to protect disabled children from abusive seclusion and restraint practices in public schools.

 

Connecticut approved such protections in 2007, but a report released Tuesday by the National Disability Rights Network shows that about 40 percent of the states in the nation have no laws, policies or guidelines concerning restraint or seclusion use in schools.

This morning I gave my opening statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the nomination hearing of Secretary-Designate of State, Hillary Clinton. I have had the pleasure of working closely with her on a wide range of issues for many years, and I look forward to our continued partnership and to her leadership as Secretary of State. I have no doubt she will do a remarkable job.