The full video of Hartford Business Journal’s second annual Politics & Policy Forum is now available, featuring Gov. Ned Lamont’s preview of a third-term agenda and a pointed panel discussion with the General Assembly’s top legislative leaders.
Speaking to more than 100 attendees at The Society Room in downtown Hartford, the two-term Democrat said he is weighing whether to open state and municipal employee health plans to small businesses and nonprofits under a “Connecticut Option,” one of three big ideas he floated if voters give him another four years.
Lamont also pitched a state takeover of municipal special education costs and a final push for universal early childhood education. The panel that followed, featuring Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff, House Majority Leader Jason Rojas, Senate Minority Leader Stephen Harding and House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora, dug into labor policy, the warehouse worker quota bill that drew criticism from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, energy costs and artificial intelligence regulation.
