Press Releases
WASHINGTON—After appearing with President Obama at Central Connecticut State University to promote an increase in the federal minimum wage, Congressman Joe Courtney noted that recent reports from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and the Center for American Progress indicate that raising the minimum wage would decrease federal spending
WASHINGTON, DC –Congressman Joe Courtney today encouraged eastern Connecticut’s aspiring young artists to participate in the 2014 Congressional Art Competition. The competition is open to high school students only, grades 9 through 12, and the winner will be selected at the District Art Show and Competition on Thursday, May 1st. The winner of that competition will have his or her work featured in the United States Capitol along with art from all 435 Congressional Districts.
WASHINGTON—Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) released the following statement congratulating Connecticut senior Senator Richard Blumenthal on his new chairmanship of the Senate Armed Services Airland Subcommittee:
WASHINGTON—Today, after the House approved H.R. 3370, the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2)—a cosponsor of the bill—released the following statement:
“Over the last six months, I have spoken to eastern Connecticut realtors and homebuilders about the critical need for this law. The skyrocketing rate increases that have occurred in the last year will effectively lock up our state’s real estate market in flood zones, hampering our economic recovery.
WASHINGTON—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) and Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will award $32,847,955 in disaster declaration funds to the New England Multispecies Groundfish Fishery. The funding, part of $75 million in congressionally-allocated assistance for nationwide fisheries disaster declarations, was authorized under the 2014 Omnibus Appropriations Act.
WASHINGTON—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) released the following statement after Governor Malloy and UTC CEO Louis Chênevert announced an agreement in which UTC will invest up to $500 million over 5 years in Connecticut to upgrade and expand its aerospace research, development and manufacturing facilities. In addition, UTC has committed to retaining its Pratt & Whitney division headquarters in Connecticut for 15 years and its Sikorsky headquarters in Connecticut for at least 5 years.
WASHINGTON—Citing state export data released today from the U.S. Department of Commerce showing a more than 3 percent increase in exports from 2012 to 2013, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) released the following statement:
WASHINGTON—Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) released the following statement after President Obama delivered the 2014 State of the Union Address tonight:
Washington—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) announced that his guest for President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union Address on Tuesday, January 28th will be Katherine Hackett of Moodus, Connecticut. Ms. Hackett, the mother of two U.S. servicemen, was cut off from emergency unemployment insurance benefits on December 28th. Along with more than 20,000 other Connecticut residents, she lost this modest but vital lifeline because House Republican leaders refused to hold a vote to extend federal emergency unemployment benefits before adjourning at the end of 2013.
WASHINGTON—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) applauded the bipartisan passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, an omnibus spending measure that appropriates government funding for Fiscal Year 2014, by a vote of 359 to 67. The bipartisan coalition included 193 Democrats and 166 Republicans supporting the legislation, with 3 Democrats and 64 Republicans opposing it.