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By NIKKI WENTLING | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 1, 2021 WASHINGTON Several national veterans’ organizations are urging Congress to give the Department of Veterans Affairs nearly $4 billion in the next federal budget for overdue construction on medical facilities, doubling its current budget for those projects. The VA has about $65 billion in delayed construction projects, $7 billion of which aim to fix safety issues, said Patrick Murray, legislative director for the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The organizations have long fought for a bigger construction budget but see a greater need for urgency after an incident at the West Haven VA Medical Center in Connecticut last year, when a VA employee and a private contractor were killed while repairing the building’s decades-old steam system. A rapid release of hot water vapor led to an explosion.
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Published January 09. 2021 1:46AM
DANBURY (AP) Federal lawmakers from Connecticut demanded answers Friday from the warden of the federal prison in Danbury after they say they learned first responders were denied access during one of two natural gas leaks within the past two months.
Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy and Rep. Jahana Hayes said they sent a letter to Warden Diane Easter asking questions and calling for an “immediate assessment” of gas piping and other critical infrastructure at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, which houses more than 800 inmates, many of them women.
The Democratic lawmakers said in a statement there were gas leaks on Nov. 13 and Dec. 26. Eversource crews repaired the Nov. 13 leak, but the company s workers and Danbury firefighters were denied access on Dec. 26 and weren t let in until the next day, the legislators said.
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