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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 – 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.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today sent the following letter to director Steve Spielberg and DreamWorks, asking Spielberg to correct an historical inaccuracy in the Academy Award-nominated film, Lincoln, which places Connecticut on the wrong side of the slavery debate and ratification of the 13th Amendment.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that he will serve as vice ranking member of the Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee in the 113th Congress. The committee has jurisdiction over the U.S. Navy.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that the Pentagon would lift the ban on women serving in combat:
, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed eastern Connecticut dairy farmers will receive critical support because of The American Taxpayer Relief Act, which the House passed on January 1, 2013.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney announced today that he will serve as the top Democrat on the Education and Workforce Committee’s Workforce Protections Subcommittee in the 113th Congress.