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WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that the House Education and Workforce Committee will next Wednesday hold a hearing on school safety.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after House Republicans voted to adjourn and send Members home, even as the deadline to prevent sequestration's across-the-board cuts ticked down to 13 days. The vote in the House was 222-190, with every House Democrat voting to remain in session.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney tonight released the following statement after President Obama's State of the Union address:

WASHINGTON, DC – According to new data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), 11,195 eastern Connecticut Medicare beneficiaries saved $10,849,307 on prescription drugs because of the Affordable Care Act in 2012.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after "Lincoln" screenwriter Tony Kushner conceded that his screenplay and the film erroneously depicted Connecticut's House delegation as voting against the 13^th Amendment, which abolished slavery.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Connecticut House delegation today applauded the appointment of Judith Stein, founder and executive director of the Center for Medicare Advocacy in Willimantic, to the Bipartisan Long-Term Care Commission.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today sent the following letter to director Steve Spielberg and DreamWorks, asking Spielberg to correct an historical inaccuracy in the Academy Award-nominated film, Lincoln, which places Connecticut on the wrong side of the slavery debate and ratification of the 13^th Amendment.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that he will serve as vice ranking member of the Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee in the 113^th Congress. The committee has jurisdiction over the U.S. Navy.