Press Releases
WASHINGTON—Today Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) released the following statement after voting to pass a short-term Continuing Resolution to fund the government:
“Today, Congress narrowly avoided another Republican government shutdown while intensifying the looming budget cliff in December—sending us into yet another cycle of manufactured crises. This ongoing failure to seek consensus on long-term government funding bills is bad for our economy and bad for democracy.
WASHINGTON—Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) congratulated Dorothy C. Goodwin Elementary School in Storrs, Connecticut on being named one of Connecticut’s four National Blue Ribbon Schools by the U.S. Department of Education today:
WASHINGTON—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) released the following statement after Pope Francis delivered his historic address to the Congress:
WASHINGTON D.C. -- Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2), Congressman Peter Welch (VT), and House colleagues from New England sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Monday requesting review of the Dairy Margin Protection Program (MPP), a newly-established insurance program for dairy farmers implemented in the 2014 Farm Bill.
New London, CT--Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) released the following statement after participating in the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the U.S. Navy Undersea Warfighting Development Center recently established at Submarine Base New London:
Washington— Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, released the following statement on today’s change of command ceremony for the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO):
(Washington, DC) – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) joined U.S. Senators Dean Heller (R-NV) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) as they introduced bipartisan companion legislation to Courtney's House bill to repeal a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) known as the “Cadillac Tax,” which will impose a 40 percent excise tax on high-cost health insurance plans beginning in 2018.
(Washington, DC) – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) joined U.S. Senators Dean Heller (R-NV) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) as they introduced bipartisan companion legislation to Courtney's House bill to repeal a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) known as the “Cadillac Tax,” which will impose a 40 percent excise tax on high-cost health insurance plans beginning in 2018.
Norwich, CT – Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2), Governor Dannel Malloy, and the Connecticut congressional delegation today announced that the State of Connecticut has been awarded $700,000 grant from the Federal Transit Administration to conduct a study of transit-oriented development (TOD) opportunities in the New Haven-Hartford-Springfield (NHHS) rail corridor, also known as the Hartford Line. The federal funding will be matched by $200,000 in state funds. This study advances ongoing efforts to develop an intermodal transit station in Enfield, as part of the upgrades to the NHHS line.