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June 7, 2012 Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today invited eastern Connecticut job seekers to participate in the career fair he is hosting on Wednesday, June 13, at the Norwich Holiday Inn between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.

June 7, 2012 Press Release

Washington, DC –Today, Congressmen Joe Courtney (D-CT), John Tierney (D-MA) and George Miller (D-CA) spearheaded the following letter to Majority Leader Eric Cantor asking why the Republican “Summer Legislative Agenda”

June 2, 2012 Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney, a member of the House Armed Services Committee and co-chairman of the Congressional Shipbuilding Conference, today represented Connecticut at the commissioning of the USS Mississippi - the Navy's newest Virginia-class submarine - in Pascagoula, Miss.

May 31, 2012 Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC — The Connecticut Congressional Delegation responded today  to the joint Federal Energy Regulatory Commission/North America Electric Reliability Corporation  report into the causes and unacceptable response of Connecticut Light & Power and its parent company, Northeast Utilities, to last October’s snowstorm that left more than two million households with

May 25, 2012 Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC – Senators Joe Lieberman and Richard Blumenthal and Congressman Joe Courtney today applauded the announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the Town of Preston secured $800,000 in competitive grants to assess and clean up brownfield sites at the former Norwich Hospital property on Route 12.

May 19, 2012 Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that New London-based LifePharms secured a $299,998 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). LifePharms will use the competitive grant funding to research and develop compounds to fight drug-resistant fungi.

May 18, 2012 Press Release

Bill includes measures secured by Courtney to extend doubled submarine production through 2018, protect EB engineering, design, building jobs

 

May 11, 2012 Op-Ed
In the midst of the most desperate threat to our nation, President Abraham Lincoln looked beyond the dire present of the Civil War and signed a groundbreaking national commitment to higher education. On July 2, 1862, the Morrill Act created the land-grant system for state educational institutions to foster engineering and agricultural science.

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