Former Member, Appropriations Committee, Connecticut State House of Representatives

Former Ranking Member, Education Committee, Connecticut State House of Representatives

Former Member, Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee, Connecticut State House of Representatives

Former Member, Subcommittee on Elementary and Secondary Education, Connecticut State House of Representatives

Former Member, Subcommittee on Regulation and Protection, Connecticut State House of Representatives

Former Member, Subcommittee on Transportation Bonding, Connecticut State House of Representatives

Former Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Transportation, Connecticut State House of Representatives

Former Member, Transportation Committee, Connecticut State House of Representatives

Ranking Member, Appropriations

Member, Education

Member, Judicial and Corrections Subcommittee

Member, Legislative Subcommittee

Member, Subcommittee on Accountability

Member, Subcommittee on Collective Bargaining

Member, Subcommittee on Conservation and Development

Member, Subcommittee on Elementary and Secondary Education

Member, Subcommittee on General Government A

Member, Subcommittee on General Government B

Member, Subcommittee on Health

Member, Subcommittee on Higher Education

Member, Subcommittee on Human Services

Member, Subcommittee on Regulation and Protection

Member, Subcommittee on Transportation

Member, Transportation

— Awards:

• Stratégies Grand Prix, 1991
• Tip of the Cap Award, 2011, Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now
• Environmental Champion, 2012, League of Conservation Voters
• Woman of the Year, 2012, Homebuilders and Remodelers Association of Fairfield County
• Children's Champion, 2013, Connecticut Early Childhood Alliance
• Stepping Up for Children Award, 2013, Stepping Stones Museum for Children
• Environmental Champion and Transportation Leader, 2013, Connecticut League of Conservation Voters
• Environmental Champion and Transportation Leader, 2014, Connecticut League of Conservation Voters
• Environmental Champion and Transportation Leader, 2015, Connecticut League of Conservation Voters

Favorite Book:

"Portrait of a Lady," Henry James

"Bel-Ami," Guy de Maupassant

"Harriet the Spy," Louise Fitzhugh

Favorite Quote:

"Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and as capable

of bitter and bloody persecutions." - Thomas Jefferson

"Whatever is excessive is insignificant." - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." - Alexander Hamilton

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." - Mark Twain

"Tout cela est bien dit, mais il faut cultiver notre jardin." (That's all very well, but we must cultivate our garden.) - Voltaire (Candide)