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Norwich—Today Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2), a member of the House Agriculture Committee, announced more than $395,000 for Connecticut farmers through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. Administered by USDA’s Agriculture Marketing Service, the program enhances markets and production for specialty crops.

Norwich, CT—Today Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal and Congressman Joe Courtney announced a federal grant and loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development program to the town of Putnam, Connecticut.

WASHINGTON—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) announced that two eastern Connecticut cultural gems, the Goodspeed Opera House and the Mystic Ballet, were awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

WASHINGTON—Today Congressman Joe Courtney released the following statement congratulating Connecticut’s Stephen R. Gephard on his presidential appointment to the post of Commissioner of the Council of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization:

WASHINGTON, DC– According to new data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), 12,262 eastern Connecticut Medicare beneficiaries saved $14,474,351 on prescription drugs because of the Affordable Care Act in 2013.

(HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Dannel P. Malloy and the Connecticut House delegation have each written letters to federal officials urging immediate action to be taken on legislation extending Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Reps. Joe Courtney (CT-2) and Jackie Walorski (IN-2) announced today the details of a friendly wager over tonight’s national championship game between the women’s basketball teams from Notre Dame University and the University of Connecticut.

WASHINGTON—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) spoke on the floor of the House to congratulate the University of Connecticut men's and women's basketball teams on their historic dual national championship wins.