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April 14, 2015

WASHINGTON—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Seapower Subcommittee, welcomed representatives from Connecticut defense manufacturers to the 2015 Sea Air Space Expo in National Harbor, Maryland. The annual expo provides a platform for companies to pursue business opportunities with the U.S.


April 13, 2015
NORWICH, CT—Friday, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) joined Rachael Johnston, a real estate broker, and Evan Preston, State Director of ConnPIRG, to call for action on Courtney’s bill, H.R. 1434, the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act.

April 9, 2015

NORWICH—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney issued the following statement after President Obama issued a federal disaster declaration for New London, Tolland, and Windham Counties, in response to the January 26-28 blizzard earlier this year.


April 3, 2015

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Joe Courtney released the following statement after a preliminary nuclear agreement with Iran was announced by the United States and members of the P5 +1 nations:

“I applaud Secretary Kerry and his dedicated team for their dogged, tough negotiation of a preliminary nuclear framework with Iran.


April 3, 2015

Hudson, New Hampshire--Today at American Legion Post 48 in Hudson, New Hampshire, Representatives Joe Courtney (CT-2) and Annie Kuster (NH-2) presented John Ekenbarger with medals earned during his service in the Korean War. Mr. Ekenbarger served as an Anti-aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Crewman in the 2nd Infantry Division, U.S. Army.


March 26, 2015

WASHINGTON—Today, the House passed H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015—a bill which Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) co-sponsored—to enact a permanent ‘doc fix' that provides predictable reimbursement rates from Medicare to providers, and repeals the flawed Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula adopted in 1997.


March 24, 2015
WASHINGTON—Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) today warned Connecticut residents to be wary of a phone scam in which scammers impersonate Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents demanding payment of owed taxes.

March 24, 2015
WASHINGTON—Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) today warned Connecticut residents to be wary of a phone scam in which scammers impersonate Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents demanding payment of owed taxes.

March 23, 2015

Bipartisan Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act would restore coverage rules for skilled nursing care


March 18, 2015
WASHINGTON—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) introduced the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, a bill that would allow undergraduate borrowers repaying private or public student loans to refinance those loans to an interest rate of 3.86 percent.
Issues: Education