Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after voting in favor of the Fiscal Year 2013 Continuing Resolution (CR) being considered by the Congress that would continue to fully fund continued doubled submarine production at Electric Boat.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that the East Great Plain Volunteer Fire Department in Norwich secured $393,000 in federal funding from the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA to enhance efforts to recruit and retain volunteer fire fighters.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement in response to the start of sequestration's implementation:
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after he and a bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives voted to pass the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), 286-138:
WASHINGTON, DC — Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement in response to a new White House report outlining the damaging impact of sequestration's cuts on Connecticut:
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that the House Education and Workforce Committee will next Wednesday hold a hearing on school safety.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after House Republicans voted to adjourn and send Members home, even as the deadline to prevent sequestration's across-the-board cuts ticked down to 13 days. The vote in the House was 222-190, with every House Democrat voting to remain in session.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney tonight released the following statement after President Obama's State of the Union address:
WASHINGTON, DC – According to new data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), 11,195 eastern Connecticut Medicare beneficiaries saved $10,849,307 on prescription drugs because of the Affordable Care Act in 2012.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after "Lincoln" screenwriter Tony Kushner conceded that his screenplay and the film erroneously depicted Connecticut's House delegation as voting against the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery.