State Senator Eileen M. Daily

Senator Eileen M. Daily (D-Westbrook) is serving her ninth term in the state Senate representing the 33rd Senatorial District and its residents. Her district is comprised of twelve towns in the lower Connecticut River Valley and along the Long Island Sound.

She is in her fourth term as the Senate chair of the tax-writing Finance, Revenue, and Bonding Committee; she is vice-chair of the Public Safety and Security Committee and serves on the Internship and Legislative Management Committees.

Senator Daily remains a Deputy President Pro Tempore of the Senate. In previous terms, she has Chaired the Planning and Development and Environment Committees.

Senator Daily is the governor's appointee to and a member of the state's Juvenile Justice Advisory Commission; she is also a long-standing member of the Board of Directors of the Valley Shore YMCA and the Middlesex County Substance Abuse Action Council.

Among the Senator's recent accomplishments, she helped secure funding for erosion control and other improvements to the Lyman Viaduct in Colchester, and promoted the protection of the striking Eight Mile River Watershed within the national Wild and Scenic River system.

Senator Daily was also instrumental in negotiating the components of and funding for an innovative and comprehensive industrial wastewater treatment facility in Clinton, and likewise helped bring parties together on a plan to provide Westbrook with a new train station and public works garage.

Among highlights of 2004, Senator Daily traveled as part of a 15-member trade delegation from the National Foundation for Women Legislators (NFWL) to tour the Kingdom of Bahrain. Bahrain is best known as the Gateway to the (Persian) Gulf and has had friendly relations with the United States for over 100 years.

Long active in her community, Senator Daily was First Selectwoman in Westbrook from 1983 to 1989, a member of the Westbrook Board of Selectmen from 1989 to 1991, and served on the Westbrook Board of Education from 1976 to 1983.

Senator Daily and her husband Jim have lived in Westbrook for over 30 years. They have two grown children--Jeff and Amy.