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U.S. Rep Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, on Thursday joined in a bipartisan vote of the House Armed Services Committee to approve a boost in federal defense spending that he says contains historic support for shipbuilding and submarine construction and procurement.
COVENTRY/COLUMBIA — On March 11, President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion federal American Rescue Plan Act into law, which included relief funds for municipalities.
On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Joe Court-ney, D-2nd District, met in Coventry with town administrators from Coventry and Columbia to discuss how the respective towns plan to allocate it.
New London's Cross Sound Ferry is in line for millions in federal dollars.
U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney's office put out a news release Tuesday saying that the U.S. Department of the Treasury is set to give $3.8 million to Cross Sound in pandemic relief funds.
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee voted Friday to support several of Rep. Joseph D. Courtney’s funding requests for eastern Connecticut projects, including $2.5 million for upgrades to the Enfield train station, $2 million for fixing crumbling foundations, and $792,000 for repairs to the New England Motorcycle Museum building in Vernon.
In the rush of events that have cascaded through Washington, D.C., over the last three months, one remarkable milestone deserves a second look. On Jan. 1, 2021 — just a few days before the insurrection at the Capitol, in the final hours of the 116th Congress of the United States — the U.S.
The $1.9 trillion federal coronavirus relief package being debated in Congress could result in millions of dollars in direct aid for area towns to help cover costs associated with the pandemic, U.S. Rep. Joseph D. Courtney announced Monday.