Congressman Joe Courtney |Representing the 2nd District of Connecticut
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September 17, 2025
“PSLF has been bipartisan from the start, when Congress created the program and President Bush signed it into law in 2007. Now, President Trump and Secretary of Education McMahon are attempting to redefine which public service jobs are eligible for PSLF based on the Administration’s own politics. No thanks,” Courtney said.

September 11, 2025
“While thousands of Rhode Island and Connecticut union jobs hang in the balance and households continue to face high electricity costs, this Republican amendment would have forced the 80% complete Revolution Wind project to be unnecessarily re-reviewed by the Department of Defense, prolonging the Administration’s unjustified August 22nd halt work order," the lawmakers said.


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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). 

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