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June 6, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. ­– Rep.


June 5, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. ­– Today, at a House Armed Services Committee hearing, Rep.


June 4, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, at the House Education and Workforce Committee Hearing on President Trump’s FY26 budget request, Rep. Joe Courtney (CT-02), a senior member of the Committee, grilled U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon on budget cuts to magnet schools, workforce development funding, and adult education.

Issues: Education

June 3, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Rep. Joe Courtney (CT-02) and 28 other Members of Congress in New England and Hawaii released a bicameral statement in response to United States Department of Agriculture (UDSA) Secretary Brooke Rollins illegally restricting relief funding to small and mid-sized family farms in New England, Alaska, and Hawaii:

Issues: Agriculture

May 27, 2025

NORWICH, CT – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee and House Education & Workforce Committee, issued the following statement after Electric Boat workers a part of the Marine Draftsmen Association (MDA-UAW)


May 23, 2025

NORWICH, CT – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), a senior Member of the Education and Workforce Committee, issued the following statement.

Issues: Education

May 23, 2025

NORWICH, CT ­– This week, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan package (H.R. 672) which included Rep. Joe Courtney’s (CT-02) provision to mandate a single zip-code for the town of Scotland, Connecticut.


May 22, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – This morning, following six-hours of overnight debate on the House Floor, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) released the following statement after voting NO on the House GOP’s partisan 10-year budget bill: