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WASHINGTON, DC — Congressman Joe Courtney today announced two significant contracts awarded by the Navy to Groton-based Electric Boat that provide stability to the region's workforce as we near the fiscal cliff. The two contracts are a major design contract for the Ohio Class Replacement and a construction contract for the next two Virginia Class submarines in 2013.
Bill includes measures secured by Courtney to extend doubled submarine production through 2018, protect EB engineering, design, building jobs
WASHINGTON, DC — This evening, U.S.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement on the death of Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii:
WASHINGTON, DC—Today, Congressmen Joe Courtney (D-CT), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), and 88 House Democrats urged President Obama to reject House Republican efforts to raise the Medicare eligibility age during ongoing debt negotiations.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that, since the beginning of 2011, his office has helped return $2,663,528 to eastern Connecticut citizens who were owed Social Security checks, veterans' benefits, tax refunds and other payments from the federal government.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today urged eastern Connecticut's recent college graduates with federal student loans to apply for the U.S. Department of Education's new "Pay as You Earn" Program to reduce their monthly loan payments.
Washington, D.C. — Today 102 members of the House of Representatives, led by Reps. Joe Courtney (D-CT), Keith Ellison (D-MN), Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ), Joe Crowley (D-NY), and John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), sent a letter to Speaker Boehner urging him to take cuts to Social Security off the table in the current budget negotiations.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today testified before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works about the impact of Hurricane Sandy on eastern Connecticut. Courtney stressed the economic impact of repeated storms that have hit the region over the past two years. He testified, in part: