Biden s visit seals CT as a top destination for his administration
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President Joe Biden arrives at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Detroit, Mich., on Tuesday.NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP via Getty Images
WASHINGTON When President Joe Biden lands in Connecticut on Wednesday, he will secure Connecticut’s spot as one of the most visited states by top federal officials in the first four months of his administration.
Biden is returning to the Nutmeg State to deliver a commencement speech at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London on Wednesday. His visit will notch at least five separate visits to Connecticut from Biden senior administration officials and members of the first family in the first four months of the new president’s term.
By KEVIN G. HALL | McClatchy Washington Bureau | Published: May 18, 2021 WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) A growing debate over the ability of the armed services to investigate sexual assault and harassment provides a backdrop of controversy to President Joe Biden’s commencement address this week at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. It comes amid a high-profile case at the academy. Legislation is being drafted in both chambers of Congress that would put an independent body in charge of investigations into military sex crimes. This would bring changes to all branches of the armed services. Coast Guard leadership had been under scrutiny for more than 18 months after the December 2019 release of a congressional report about mishandling of assault and harassment complaints. The service and its elite rescue swimmer program were also the focus of a yearlong series of stories, “Silenced No More” in 2020 by the Miami Herald and McClatchy.
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President Joe Biden will touch down briefly in Rhode Island on Wednesday morning en route to giving the keynote speech at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy s 140th Commencement ceremony in New London, Connecticut.
Biden is slated to fly to Quonset Point Air National Guard Station on Wednesday morning before getting in a helicopter for a flight to New London, a White House spokesman confirmed.
The president is scheduled to touch down in North Kingstown at 9:40 a.m. and depart for New London by 10:30 a.m., according to his official schedule.
Other than Quonset, no stops in Rhode Island were on the president s schedule.
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