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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, at a House Armed Services Committee hearing with the Secretary of the Army and Acting Chief of Staff of the Army, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, called out the Trump Administration’s cancelation of the deployment of 4,000 soldiers to Poland.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, asked Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Daryl Caudle (USN) about his support for the AUKUS security agreement.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), a senior Member of the House Education and Workforce Committee, slammed Secretary of Education Linda McMahon’s new rule which excludes nursing from the Department of Education’s definition of “professional” graduate-level degrees, capping available federal student loans for nursing students at half of what is available for “professional” degrees. This is a result of the Big Ugly Bill (H.R. 1) and will raise education costs for critically needed nurses.
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About Joe
Congressman Joe Courtney was elected in 2006 to represent the Second Congressional District of Connecticut in the House of Representatives. He serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Congressman Courtney is the Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces. From 2018-2022, Courtney served as Chairman of the Subcommittee. According to a review by House Historians Office, Courtney was the first known member from Connecticut to lead a naval oversight panel in the House of Representatives since 1873, when Stephen W. Kellogg of Waterbury served as Chair of the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department in the 42nd Congress (1871-1873).