Attaching similar amendments to a different bill might both give the government more time to find a compromise and get the Defamation Bill off that particular hook.

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Bill also lives in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

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Alongside family members of some of the victims of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Malloy signed the bill hours after the General Assembly approved the measure to give the state some of the toughest gun laws in the country.

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Although those figures have likely changed as the bill has been modified, the message is the same: The government-sponsored mortgage buyers would be on the hook for a hefty sum of money.

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