Lisa Hagen
Federal policy reporterLisa Hagen is CT Public and CT Mirror’s shared Federal Policy Reporter. Based in Washington, D.C., she focuses on the impact of federal policy in Connecticut and covers the state’s congressional delegation. Lisa previously covered national politics and campaigns for U.S. News & World Report, The Hill and National Journal’s Hotline.
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The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Sarah Russell to sit on the U.S. District Court in Connecticut as Democrats scramble to install as many of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees as they can before losing their majority and the White House next year. -
Linda McMahon is expected to succeed Miguel Cardona as the head of the U.S. Department of Education. If confirmed, McMahon would take the helm of a department that President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on eliminating and could oversee a major overhaul. -
Democrats, including Connecticut’s delegation, have a long to-do list of priorities they want to get over the finish line before the end of the year. And they have a heightened sense of urgency to try to get as much as they can done before Republicans have uniform control of Congress and Donald Trump returns to the White House. -
The news comes less than two weeks after Murphy easily won a third term to the U.S. Senate. The couple said the decision was made jointly on amicable terms and that they will co-parent their two teenage sons together going forward. -
The bill got a resounding vote, 327-75, that included support from four of the five members in Connecticut’s delegation.
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While Democrats celebrated victories throughout Connecticut, the national landscape looks vastly different after Donald J. Trump and Republicans stormed back into power. That has left the state’s all-Democratic federal delegation to figure out its place in governing with the GOP taking back the White House and U.S. Senate. -
U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes and her Republican challenger George Logan are locked in a tight race as the closely watched rematch in Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District remains too close to call late Tuesday. -
Democrats and Republicans fanned out across western Connecticut to campaign for U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes and Republican challenger George Logan. -
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-4th District, Republican Michael Goldstein and Independent Benjamin Wesley discussed a range of issues -
Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District is once again at the center of the state’s political universe, with the potential for statewide and national implications this election year.
