STAFFORD — Rep. Penny Bacchiochi met with members of the local Rotary Club inside Sun Valley’s clubhouse tonight to talk about the state’s budget deficit, which totals roughly $535 million. The state’s legislature must close the shortfall by the end of the fiscal year — June 30. Bacchiochi explained to the group that solving the [...]
HARTFORD — Inaction on Connecticut’s budget crisis must give way to decisive decision making and common sense financial principles that will jumpstart the state’s stagnant economy and job market, Rep. Penny Bacchiochi said today. Aimed at focusing her efforts on that, Bacchiochi arrived at the House chamber mid-morning for the start of a legislative session [...]
STAFFORD — A group of current and retired business owners meets here regularly for informal round table discussions, and given what’s been in the news media lately regarding the state budget they decided to invite someone who knows a thing or two about what’s happening at the Capitol: State Rep. Penny Bacchiochi. She met with [...]
HARTFORD — State Rep. Penny Bacchiochi today renewed her call for much-needed action a day after super-majority lawmakers raised eyebrows by ignoring the state’s financial troubles. Bacchiochi was among minority lawmakers who drove to the Capitol on Tuesday morning to tackle a projected $466 million state deficit, which could grow to a billion by the [...]
HARTFORD — Rep. Penny Bacchiochi today joined Republican lawmakers in rejecting plans to cut town and city aid and instead proposed closing the projected budget deficit by cutting state spending by $466 million. Bacchiochi and her House and Senate Republican colleagues called for immediate action from super-majority legislators whose budget was unbalanced as soon they [...]
HARTFORD — Rep. Penny Bacchiochi tonight voted against a huge tax-hike budget that held virtually no spending cuts while demonstrating the legislature’s majority party is unwilling to compromise to settle the state’s multi-billion dollar budget crisis. Bacchiochi, who represents Somers, Stafford, and Union said the plan from Democrat leadership put a sales tax cut — [...]
HARTFORD — In an effort to fuel stalled budget talks, Rep. Penny Bacchiochi joined House and Senate Republicans today in delivering a third, “real world” No Tax Increase budget that solves the state’s fiscal crisis through consolidations and spending cuts rather than reductions to aid for municipalities. Preserving state financial aid to municipalities — something [...]
HARTFORD — Connecticut residents need jobs, not more taxes. Rep. Penny Bacchiochi is no fan of the latest budget plan offered today by the legislature’s majority party, a proposal that that would impose more than $1.8 billion in new taxes at a time when people can least afford it. The balanced budget plan from Bacchiochi [...]
HARTFORD—Rep. Penny Bacchiochi today voted against a controversial budget plan that would close prisons while imposing business-crippling taxes, forcing companies to layoff employees at a time when Connecticut is struggling to keep jobs within its borders.
Connecticut faces a two-year budget shortfall upward of $9 million, but instead of answering the call from residents to change [...]
