Hartford, Conn./WTIC Radio - Governor Lamont kicked of the 2023 session of the General Assembly with his state of the state address today.
Prior to delivering his speech before a joint session of the legislature, Lamont took the oath of office to begin his second term.
The state's constitutional officers were sworn in, as well.
Lamont declared three years after the start of the pandemic, "the next four years should focus more on recovery, less on rescue, less need for lifelines, and more focus on ladders. Keep our economy growing, making sure that growth means a ladder to opportunity for everyone regardless of background or zip code."
To that end, Lamont says it's time for a middle class income tax cut, something that leaders from both parties expressed interest in.
The governor also touched on education, health care, and transportation in his speech.
With regard to the latter, Lamont said "we can keep spending hundreds of millions of dollars to patch up old bridges where trains and trucks have to slow down to cross safely, or we can rebuild the choke points in our transportation system to help you get to work or back home faster and safer."
He's being joined this afternoon at a press conference announcing over $158 million in repairs to New London's Gold Star Bridge by U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.