Former Connecticut Senator Eileen Daily (D) died in late July.

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FORMER CONNECTICUT SENATOR EILEEN DAILY (D) DIED IN LATE JULY. She was 72. Active in NCSL, Daily represented her Senate district for 20 years before deciding not to seek re-election in 2012. "For decades, she was a tenacious fighter for her constituents and a committee chair who wielded enormous respect among colleagues--and she did it with a smile on her face," Governor Dannel P. Malloy (D) said in a statement...