Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, and Congressman Adam Smith (WA-09), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, introduced the Safeguarding Taxpayer Investment for Executive Airlift Act. The bill would prohibit the use of congressionally authorized or appropriated FY27 funding to transfer the Qatari-gifted 747, now being used as Air Force One (the VC-25B Bridge Aircraft), out of possession of the U.S. Air Force.
NORWICH, CT – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) joined a bipartisan group of 261 current and former Members of Congress in officially filing an ami
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, voted to pass a bipartisan continuing resolution (H.R. 6500) to keep the federal government funded through December 11, 2026.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, in a speech on the House floor, Rep. Joe Courtney (CT-02), honored the life and legacy of Nancy Wyman, the former Connecticut Lieutenant Governor, Democratic State Party Chair, and the first woman to be elected state Comptroller.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to share with the House the sad news of the loss of one of the state of Connecticut's finest public servants, former Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wineman of Tolland, Connecticut.
NORWICH, CT – Today, Reps. Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, Wesley Bell (MO-01), and Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) led 15 of their colleagues on the House Armed Services Committee and 34 more Members of Congress in sending a letter to Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao expressing concern for the personnel and material readiness of the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and requesting information on the ship’s deployment and future.
NORWICH, CT – Yesterday, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, Mark Rayha, President of General Dynamics-Electric Boat, Peter Baker, President of the Metal Trades Council of New London County, AFL-CIO, and Chris Jewell, President of Collins & Jewell and Chairman of the Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board’s Board of Directors, joined Jill Rusk, Mayor of the City of Groton, and a large crowd of state and local officials, educators, and leaders in Connecticut’s s
NORWICH, CT – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee and a senior Member of the House Education and Workforce Committee, released the following statement after the Navy officially executed contract awards to Electric Boat for construction of nine Virginia-class Block VI fast-attack submarines and five Columbia-class Build II ballistic missile submarines.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congress Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, issued the following statement after the House passed the FY27 National Defense Authorization Act. After Republican leaders allowed partisan poison pill amendments to be added to the NDAA, Courtney voted “no” on initial House-passage of the FY27 NDAA.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) released the following statement on President Trump’s address to the nation.