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February 12, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn-02), U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and U.S.


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February 11, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Rep. Joe Courtney joined House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Rep. Gergory W. Meeks (D-NY) in a letter urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio to end the Trump Administration’s stop work order on U.S. foreign assistance while a 90-day review of USAID programs is underway.


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February 7, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney AO (CT-02), Co-Chair of the Friends of Australia Caucus, issued the following statement after meeting with Australia’s Defense Minister, Richard Marles, to discuss Congress’s ongoing commitment to strengthening the U.S.-Australia alliance as well as Australia’s $500 million investment into the U.S. submarine industrial base announced this morning. 


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February 6, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Joe Courtney (CT-02) applauded the temporary block on President Trump’s buyout offer to federal workers. Massachusetts Senior District Judge George O’Toole ordered the February 6 11:59 p.m.


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February 6, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Joe Courtney sent a letter to federal workers and joined a legislative push to protect the civil service from President Trump’s and Elon Musk’s efforts to push dedicated non-partisan employees out of their jobs.


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February 5, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Joe Courtney, a senior member of the House Committee on Education and Workforce, called out President Trump’s and Elon Musk’s unpopular and dangerous plan to abolish the Education Department. Watch the clip here.

Issues: Education

February 4, 2025

NORWICH, CT – Today, Rep. Joe Courtney (CT-02) announced that House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries reappointed him as a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Board of Visitors for the 119th Congress.


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February 3, 2025

NORWICH, CT: Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) issued the following statement in response to Elon Musk's unlawful power grab across the federal government.  

"The American people are rightly enraged by unelected billionaire Elon Musk's complete power grab of our government: closing a federal agency, accessing Treasury's payment system, and seizing American's private data. I'm working with my colleagues on legislation to stop his unlawful overreach."

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