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September 23, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. ­– Today, Co-Chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Friends of Australia Caucus, Congressman Joe Courtney (D-CT), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, and Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Chair Emeritus of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement marking the success of AUKUS export control reforms.

Issues: AUKUS News

September 22, 2025
Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) issued the following statement after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction, allowing work to resume on Connecticut's and Rhode Island’s Revolution Wind offshore wind energy project.

September 17, 2025
“PSLF has been bipartisan from the start, when Congress created the program and President Bush signed it into law in 2007. Now, President Trump and Secretary of Education McMahon are attempting to redefine which public service jobs are eligible for PSLF based on the Administration’s own politics. No thanks,” Courtney said.

September 11, 2025
“While thousands of Rhode Island and Connecticut union jobs hang in the balance and households continue to face high electricity costs, this Republican amendment would have forced the 80% complete Revolution Wind project to be unnecessarily re-reviewed by the Department of Defense, prolonging the Administration’s unjustified August 22nd halt work order," the lawmakers said.

September 11, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. ­– Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) released the following statement after the Connecticut Insurance Department announced that individual market rate premiums will increase by an average of 16.8% in 2026. 

Issues: Health Care

September 10, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. ­– Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, issued the following statement after House passage of the FY26 National Defense Authorization Act.


September 10, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, urged his colleagues to oppose an amendment to the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which would require President Trump’s Department of Defense to certify all offshore wind projects in the North and Mid-Atlantic within 90 days of the bill’s passage, including offshore wind projects already reviewed by the Department of Defense.


September 8, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. ­– Today, in a speech on the House floor, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) called on the Trump Administration to quickly lift its halt work order the Revolution Wind offshore wind energy project. Despite pressure from Rep.


August 29, 2025

NORWICH, CT ­– This week, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, sent a letter to Acting Director of Bureau of Ocean Energy Man