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Fate of legislature’s investigative arm hangs on in budget battle

JULY 11, 2016 | by Keith Phaneuf | THE CONNECTICUT MIRROR

By Keith Phaneuf, includes "...the House’s longest-serving current member, Rep. Mary Mushinsky, D-Wallingford, insists House Speaker J. Brendan Sharkey’s office assured her the planned reduction to the Program Review and Investigation Committee staff would be significantly muted — in exchange for her support for the new state budget. But the speaker, who is retiring after this year, said last week his office never made that pledge..."

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