Rep. John Hampton, a Simsbury Democrat who voted against the tax-and-spending increases signed into law last year by Malloy, said the legislature's budget-writing committee missed a chance to set the right tone by failing to block a contract this week for non-teaching professional employees at UConn. House members on the committee voted in favor of the contract, which would give 3 percent raises in the first year and 4.5 percent raises in each of the next four years, as well as increasing the workweek from 35 to 40 hours.