Lawmakers Defeat DCF Oversight Plan

By SUSAN HAIGH   Associated Press
 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ Democratic and Republican state lawmakers joined forces Wednesday to overwhelmingly reject an agreement Gov. Dannel P. Malloy argued would have helped Connecticut forge a new path toward finally ending decades of federal oversight of the state’s child welfare agency.
Legislators from both parties were skeptical of the deal, worried particularly about how it set a minimum budget of $801.2 million for the Department of