Connecticut's new Senate president pro tem knows the Heisman Trophy winners back to 1935.

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Connecticut's new Senate president pro tem knows the Heisman Trophy winners back to 1935--and the state's most important bills in the past 30 years. Senator Martin Looney (D) has spent 34 years in the House and Senate and 12 years as Senate majority leader, and has demonstrated a remarkable memory for details, including the death threats he received after voting for an assault weapons ban in 1993. He has a reputation for being a consensus builder and unflappable. The son of Irish immigrants and an only child whose father helped organize the union at the...