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WASHINGTON—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) released the following statement after Pope Francis delivered his historic address to the Congress:

WASHINGTON D.C. -- Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2), Congressman Peter Welch (VT), and House colleagues from New England sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Monday requesting review of the Dairy Margin Protection Program (MPP), a newly-established insurance program for dairy farmers implemented in the 2014 Farm Bill.

New London, CT--Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) released the following statement after participating in the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the U.S. Navy Undersea Warfighting Development Center recently established at Submarine Base New London:

Washington— Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, released the following statement on today’s change of command ceremony for the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO):

(Washington, DC) – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) joined U.S. Senators Dean Heller (R-NV) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) as they introduced bipartisan companion legislation to Courtney's House bill to repeal a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) known as the “Cadillac Tax,” which will impose a 40 percent excise tax on high-cost health insurance plans beginning in 2018.

(Washington, DC) – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) joined U.S. Senators Dean Heller (R-NV) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) as they introduced bipartisan companion legislation to Courtney's House bill to repeal a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) known as the “Cadillac Tax,” which will impose a 40 percent excise tax on high-cost health insurance plans beginning in 2018.

Norwich, CT – Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2), Governor Dannel Malloy, and the Connecticut congressional delegation today announced that the State of Connecticut has been awarded $700,000 grant from the Federal Transit Administration to conduct a study of transit-oriented development (TOD) opportunities in the New Haven-Hartford-Springfield (NHHS) rail corridor, also known as the Hartford Line. The federal funding will be matched by $200,000 in state funds. This study advances ongoing efforts to develop an intermodal transit station in Enfield, as part of the upgrades to the NHHS line.