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John Larson: “More grants would need to be written. More money needs to…”

Featuring: John Larson, Democratic | U.S. House Connecticut, 1st Congressional District

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Larson Announces Federal Funding with Mayor Arulampalam for Renovations at Hartford Public Library

Published | Video Starts at 07:48

… whether it's the library to present these checks for their efforts in what they did in writing a grant that gained national recognition and therefore funding. It doesn't stop here. More grants would need to be written. More money needs to come through to make sure that the complete restoration is finished, but also projecting out to the future and what we need to do to preserve and protect our public library system across the country. These are the centers of all knowledge and especially for the working poor and poor, this still is visionary and open to them learning about something they previously might never have known without coming to their public library. (07:48–08:07)

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Asserts that more grants and funding are needed for the restoration and future protection of the public library system.

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