McGorty Sworn in, Receives Committee Assignments

HARTFORD – State Representative Ben McGorty (R-122) was sworn in to a new term today in the State House of Representatives as the legislature began its 2017 session, and has received his committee assignments.

McGorty will serve on the Environment Committee, which oversees all matters relating to the Department of Environmental Protection, including conservation, recreation, pollution control, fisheries and game, state parks and forests, water resources and flood and erosion control; and all matters relating to the Department of Agriculture, including farming, dairy products and domestic animals. In addition, he will serve on the legislature’s Judiciary Committee which oversees matters relating to courts, judicial procedures, and criminal law, as well as all reviews all judicial nominees, and the Transportation Committee, which handles all matters relating to the Department of Transportation, including highways and bridges, navigation, aeronautics, mass transit and railroads; and to the State Traffic Commission and the Department of Motor Vehicles.

“I am pleased to return to the capitol and begin the tough work ahead of us as we begin the committee process,” said McGorty. “Our state is continuing down the wrong economic path under this administration, and I intend to do all I can to change that direction, and help return Connecticut to the prosperous state it should be.”

McGorty returns this year to a House of Representatives with greater partisan parity with 72 Republicans and 79 Democrats following the 2016 election.