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Day after pandemic relief: Explaining and complaining Trump challenges Congress to boost direct aid. Pelosi replies, 'Let's do it!' U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy, left, and Richard Blumenthal talking to the press Tuesday outside the State Capitol. Connecticut’s congressional delegation turned Tuesday to the business of dissecting, explaining and, yes, taking a little credit for the second-largest relief measure ever passed by Congress, a bipartisan $908 billion pandemic relief measure unexpectedly attacked by President Donald J. Trump. The state’s two U.S. senators, Democrats Richard Blumenthal...

By Mark Pazniokas, CT Mirror Connecticut’s congressional delegation turned Tuesday to the business of dissecting, explaining and, yes, taking a little credit for the second-largest relief measure ever passed by Congress, a bipartisan $908 billion pandemic relief measure unexpectedly attacked by President Donald J. Trump. The state’s two U.S. senators, Democrats Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, drove back to Connecticut after a late-night session Monday to deliver a carefully calibrated celebration of the compromise bill — and a withering critique of Senate Majority Lea...