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COVENTRY/COLUMBIA — On March 11, President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion federal American Rescue Plan Act into law, which included relief funds for municipalities.
On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Joe Court-ney, D-2nd District, met in Coventry with town administrators from Coventry and Columbia to discuss how the respective towns plan to allocate it.
The act is designed to provide broad relief to many facets of society, including emergency relief for towns and businesses impacted by COVID-19, with part of its focus on restoring jobs and enhancing safety.
New London's Cross Sound Ferry is in line for millions in federal dollars.
U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney's office put out a news release Tuesday saying that the U.S. Department of the Treasury is set to give $3.8 million to Cross Sound in pandemic relief funds.
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee voted Friday to support several of Rep. Joseph D. Courtney's funding requests for eastern Connecticut projects, including $2.5 million for upgrades to the Enfield train station, $2 million for fixing crumbling foundations, and $792,000 for repairs to the New England Motorcycle Museum building in Vernon.
To become law, the funding bill would require approval by the full House and Senate and would have to be signed by President Joe Biden.
In the rush of events that have cascaded through Washington, D.C., over the last three months, one remarkable milestone deserves a second look. On Jan. 1, 2021 — just a few days before the insurrection at the Capitol, in the final hours of the 116th Congress of the United States — the U.S. Congress added one more plot twist to the record books of the Trump presidency when huge, bipartisan majorities in the U.S.
The $1.9 trillion federal coronavirus relief package being debated in Congress could result in millions of dollars in direct aid for area towns to help cover costs associated with the pandemic, U.S. Rep. Joseph D. Courtney announced Monday.
The House plans to vote Wednesday on legislation that would roll back the so-called "Cadillac tax" under the 2010 health care law known as Obamacare.
The 40 percent surcharge tax applies to certain high-cost employer health care plans (hence the "Cadillac tax" nickname). It isn't set to take effect until 2022, and Congress has twice delayed its implementation.