Connecticut’s Republican legislative minority wants stricter scrutiny for recipients of state grants earmarked by majority Democrats.

They are proposing that lawmakers consider changes to budget oversight and appropriations procedures when they meet in a special session later this month.

"More transparency is needed for lawmaker earmarks in the wake of the ongoing federal corruption trial of the state’s former head of school construction, scandals involving the State Pier and the chancellor of the Connecticut State Colleges and University system, and an FBI investigation of a Hartford social service agency," said Senator Stephen Harding (R-Wolcott), the Senate Republican minority leader.

“At some point, the Republicans have to be the adults in the room to say this is enough. This is tax

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