Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC– Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after the Department of Labor announced that 200,000 new jobs were added in December. The sixth-consecutive month of 100,000-plus job growth reduced the country's unemployment rate to 8.5 percent – the lowest it has been in three years.
WASHINGTON, DC –Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after the Pentagon released the Defense Strategic Review:
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after House Republican leaders agreed to extend the payroll tax cut, ending their objection to relief for 160 million American families:
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that, since the beginning of 2011, his office has helped return $1,331,686 to eastern Connecticut citizens who were owed Social Security checks, veterans' benefits, tax refunds and other payments from the federal government. Since Courtney's arrival in Congress in 2007, his casework staff has helped thousands of constituents cut through bureaucratic red tape.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney and Senators Joe Lieberman and Richard Blumenthal today announced that Groton-based Electric Boat (EB) has secured a $191,312,737 contract from the U.S. Navy. The contract is for continued engineering, technical services, concept studies and design of a common missile compartment for the United Kingdom Successor SSBN and the Ohio replacement SSBN.
WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after Japan announced that it is buying 42 F-35s with Pratt & Whitney engines as its new mainstay fighter:
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that the New London Fire Department secured a $122,987 grant through the Department of Homeland Security's Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) program. The funding will be used for safety and training programs.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after House Republican leadership obstructed a bipartisan agreement that would extend payroll tax cuts to middle class Americans:
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney and the House of Representatives today passed the FY12 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) conference report, building on gains in submarine production and bolstering eastern Connecticut's industrial base. The agreement authorizes billions of dollars of investments for Electric Boat and other key defense priorities for eastern Connecticut and the state. The NDAA sets the federal budget for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2012.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that Windham Hospital has secured a $101,597 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to to implement an electronic health record system at the two school based health clinics in Windham. The grant is a product of the Affordable Care Act, which provided a total of $200 million for FY 2010 through FY 2013 for school-based health centers.