Eleni Kavros DeGraw

To give you a sense of where we are in the session, many committees are completing their final work due to their final deadlines. Our money committees are the last to finish, so there is still time to testify over the next couple of weeks.

You may have heard that our Capitol was busy yesterday. As we hurdle toward the end of committee deadlines, we are completing our final public hearings and our final committee meetings for this very short session.

Happy Read Across America Week! Lucky me, I was able to stop by Pine Grove School Thursday afternoon with Senator Honig in between meetings to read to some really adorable Kindergarten students. Parents, you're doing an awesome job with these lively and curious kiddos.

I'm currently writing this from under a snowdrift, and my guess is you might be reading it from one! Kidding aside, this winter is a gift for our farmers and their upcoming planting season, but a bit of a drag for a lot of us as we plow through another week of the short session.

Our Public Safety Informational Forum scheduled for tonight at Avon High School has been postponed due to inclement weather. I will share the rescheduled date for this important event as soon as we have one. Please stay safe!

Every short session feels like running on a treadmill as someone else increases the speed and incline, and this short session is no different so far. Days are filled with multiple meetings running at the same time as the press conference you hoped to attend and the advocacy briefing you need to pop into before it ends. Already, public hearings and committee meetings are lasting into the night.

As a short session is underway, I want to remind you that there are multiple ways you can "follow along." First, you can always tune in to public hearings, committee meetings, working groups, and task forces, to name a few, at our version of public broadcasting, CT-N.com. Some people find it most effective if they are suffering from insomnia. Kidding!

Today was our Opening Day of Session 2026, and while it is a short session, it feels like a very short session with only 63 days to conduct our legislative business.