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October 12, 2013

WASHINGTON DC– With House Speaker John Boehner paralyzed with inaction, Congressman Courtney today announced that he has joined with fellow Members of Congress to sign a petition to reopen the government.


October 11, 2013

WASHINGTON—Today, on the eleventh day of the House Republican-led government shutdown, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) released the following statement after Speaker Boehner again refused to hold a vote on the Senate-passed bill to fund the government:


October 11, 2013

WASHINGTON—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) released the following statement after the House unanimously passed a bill to allow the Defense Department to deliver payments to families of fallen soldiers:


October 7, 2013

WASHINGTON—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) issued the following statement after Defense Secretary Hagel announced that he would interpret the Pay Our Military Act more broadly, and return thousands of civilian Defense Department employees—including over 200 Navy shipbuilding support personnel in Groton -- to work:


October 5, 2013

WASHINGTON—Today, on the fifth day of the federal government shutdown, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) released the following statement on the passage of H.R. 3223, the Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act, a bill which Courtney endorsed the day the shutdown began:


October 4, 2013

WASHINGTON—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) announced that a new report issued by the Commission on Long-Term Care recommends steps to protect access to skilled nursing care for Medicare beneficiaries—an objective that legislation authored by Courtney would achieve. The Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act (H.R.


October 2, 2013

WASHINGTON—Yesterday, during the first day of the federal government shutdown insisted upon by House Republicans, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) took two actions to help address the impact of a government shutdown on eastern Connecticut’s hardworking federal workers. First, Courtney co-sponsored H.R. 3223, the Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act, sponsored by Rep.


October 1, 2013

WASHINGTON—Tonight, after House Republicans again insisted on including poison-pill amendments to the Continuing Resolution needed to avert a government shutdown, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) released the following statement:


September 30, 2013

WASHINGTON—Today, after House Republicans passed a continuing resolution including a poison pill amendment to delay implementation of the Affordable Care Act for a year, a measure that all but guarantees a government shutdown, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) released the following statement after voting against the bill:


September 29, 2013
Today House Republicans passed a continuing resolution including a poison pill amendment to delay implementation of the Affordable Care Act for a year, a measure that all but guarantees a government shutdown, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) voted against the bill. "I am deeply disappointed in Speaker Boehner’s decision to cave to the extreme wing of the House Republican conference, and move forward a bill that has already been declared dead-on-arrival in the Senate. The clock is ticking, and it is abundantly clear that the only way to avert a government shutdown is for House Republicans to give up their single-minded obsession with undermining the Affordable Care Act, and agree to fulfill their duty to help run the government, Congressman Joe Courtney CT-2 stated.