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• Gov. Malloy and Charter Communications Announce Charter’s Plan to Build New Headquarters, Add Jobs

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Charter Communications, Inc., a Fortune 100 company and the second-largest cable operator in the United States, today announced the company’s plans to build a 500,000 square foot, 15-story headquarters at 406 Washington Boulevard in Stamford. Following its commitment to create and retain 400 jobs under the state’s First Five Program in 2012, Charter has committed to create an additional 1,100 new corporate headquarters jobs and has agreed to a total of $100 million in planned capital expenditures in Connecticut over the next several years.

• Gov. Malloy: Five Years After Superstorm Sandy, Connecticut Has Made Significant Storm Resiliency Improvements

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and officials from across state government – on the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy – today highlighted the progress made over the last several years to strengthen resiliency and harden infrastructure from future potential storms, as severe weather has continued to severely impact our nation. Superstorm Sandy was one of the biggest natural disasters to hit Connecticut in more than 60 years, the Governor said.

• Gov. Malloy Releases New, ‘Bare-Bones’ Budget Proposal

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today released his fourth balanced budget proposal for the FY18-FY19 biennium. Built off the administration’s last compromise budget (House Bill 7501, as amended by Senate Amendment A), this new budget eliminates numerous tax increases, cuts additional spending, and pares down implementer language to focus only on structural changes and language that is actually necessary to implement the biennial budget.

• Gov. Malloy and Lt. Gov. Wyman Statements on President Trump’s Efforts to Create Trumpcare by Executive Order

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman released the following statements regarding President Trump’s efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act by creating Trumpcare through executive order.

• Connecticut Joins Multistate Lawsuit Defending Affordable Care Act

  Connecticut today joined with 17 other states and the District of Columbia in filing a lawsuit against the Trump Administration's decision to abruptly stop making healthcare cost-sharing reduction (CSR) subsidy payments required by the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) – a move that will put health coverage for more than six million Americans at risk while increasing costs, Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Attorney General George Jepsen said today.

• Gov. Malloy Statement on the Passing of Board of Pardons and Paroles Member Jeff Hoffman

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today released the following statement regarding the passing of Board of Pardons and Paroles member Jeff L. Hoffman.

• Gov. Malloy: Flags Lowered to Half-Staff in Honor of the Victims of the Tragedy in Las Vegas

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that – in accordance with a proclamation from President Donald Trump directing flags to be lowered to honor the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada – U.S. and state flags in Connecticut will fly at half-staff beginning immediately until sunset on Friday, October 6, 2017.

• Gov. Malloy & Lt. Gov. Wyman Statements on Federal Court Rejection of President Trump’s Transgender Troop Ban

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman today released the following statements regarding the ruling released today by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia blocking President Trump’s order to ban transgender people from serving in the military.

• Gov. Malloy Announces Site Selection for Connecticut’s Amazon HQ2 Bid

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) Commissioner Catherine Smith today announced that the State of Connecticut has chosen two sites for its proposal to Amazon for the company’s second headquarters – the Hartford and Stamford regions. Last month, Amazon announced that it was seeking a site for a second headquarters – known as “Amazon HQ2” – in North America, which will create tens of thousands of additional jobs and bring billions in investment.

• Gov. Malloy and Lt. Gov. Wyman Condemn President Trump’s Decision to Limit Women’s Access to Birth Control

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman today released the following statements regarding a decision by the Trump administration to roll back the federal requirement that health insurance plans cover birth control.

• Gov. Malloy Statement on Today’s Decision by ICE to Grant a Stay in Case Involving Stamford Mother

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today released the following statement in response to the decision issued this afternoon by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency granting Miriam Martinez-Lemus, a Stamford mother who came to the United States in 1992 fleeing political violence in her home country of Guatemala, a stay in her immigration case and allowing her to remain with her family.

• Gov. Malloy and Lt. Gov. Wyman Statements on Inclusion of Healthcare Mandate Repeal in Senate Republican Tax Plan

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman today released the following statements regarding the plan by Senate Republicans to include in their tax package a repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) requirement that most people have health insurance.

• Gov. Malloy Announces ‘Q Bridge’ to be Lit Red, White, and Blue for Veterans Day

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge in New Haven – informally known as the Q Bridge – will be lit red, white, and blue on the nights of Friday, November 10 and Saturday, November 11, in observation of Veterans Day. Beacons capable of projecting light nearly six miles into the clear night sky will be lit until 1:00 a.m. during those nights.

• Gov. Malloy Announces Enfield Correctional Institution to Close as Result of Declining Crime Rate and Prison Population

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that as a result of the continuing decline in the state’s crime rate and the resulting drop in the prison population, the Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) will be closing the Enfield Correctional Institution in early 2018. The closure of the building, which currently holds around 700 offenders who will be transferred to other facilities, will save the state approximately $6.5 million in annual operating costs.

• Gov. Malloy Appoints JoAnn Ryan to Serve as Chair of the Connecticut Employment and Training Commission

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that he has appointed JoAnn Ryan of Torrington to serve as chairperson of the Connecticut Employment and Training Commission (CETC).