Press Releases
WASHINGTON—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) released the following statement congratulating Anne Evans, District Director for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration, after she was awarded the Department of Defense Reservist and Guard Patriot Award:
WASHINGTON—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) announced that Medicare beneficiaries will not see any increase in premium costs for Medicare Part B in 2014.
WASHINGTON—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) released the following statement on the passing of former colleague and Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Representative Ike Skelton of Missouri:
WASHINGTON—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) announced more than $5 million in federal grants through the U.S. Department of the Interior for eastern Connecticut.
WASHINGTON—As the federal government resumes its regular operations after the House Republican-led government shutdown, Congressman Joe Courtney released the following statement on the Department of Veterans Affairs’ return to normal service:
Washington– Congressman Courtney tonight voted in favor of a long-delayed, bipartisan measure to end the 16 day Federal Government shutdown and raise the nation’s debt ceiling through early February.
Congressman Courtney today applauded Navy Secretary Ray Mabus’s announcement that the Navy will place women on two Groton-based Virginia Class Attacks Submarines, the USS Virginia and the USS Minnesota.
WASHINGTON DC– With House Speaker John Boehner paralyzed with inaction, Congressman Courtney today announced that he has joined with fellow Members of Congress to sign a petition to reopen the government.
WASHINGTON—Today, on the eleventh day of the House Republican-led government shutdown, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) released the following statement after Speaker Boehner again refused to hold a vote on the Senate-passed bill to fund the government:
WASHINGTON—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) released the following statement after the House unanimously passed a bill to allow the Defense Department to deliver payments to families of fallen soldiers: