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WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after the U.S. Navy's awarded a $94 million contract to Groton-based Electric Boat (EB) for advanced planning and material efforts in support of repairs to the USS Miami:
WASHINGTON, DC – Senators Joe Lieberman and Richard Blumenthal, Congressman Joe Courtney and Governor Dannel P. Malloy today applauded the U.S. Department of Commerce's Disaster Declaration for the failure of commercial Northeast groundfish fisheries in the 2013 fishing season.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after UConn head basketball coach Jim Calhoun announced his retirement:
WASHINGTON, DC – At a hearing of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Congressman Joe Courtney elicited testimony from Assistant Secretary of the Navy Sean Stackley affirming that the Fiscal Year 2013 Continuing Resolution (CR) being considered by the Congress would in fact continue to fully fund continued doubled submarine production at Electric Bo
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that the CT Parent Advocacy Center in Niantic secured an $828,108 grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The CT Parent Advocacy Center will use the competitive funding to provide information and resources to parents of children with the full range of disabilities (birth to age 26).
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today applauded the completion and official opening of the new indoor small arms range at SUBASE New London. In 2008, Congressman Courtney secured $11 million to build the range as part of the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that Storrs-based Biorasis Inc. secured a $486,406 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that the Town of Putnam secured a $46,548 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services's (HHS) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention to help the Town combat underage drinking.
WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Richard Blumenthal and Congressman Joe Courtney today applauded the U.S. Navy's decision to move forward on repair of the USS MIAMI, a Groton-based attack submarine that was damaged in a fire May 23 while undergoing an overhaul at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today applauded the State of Rhode Island's decision to suspend a proposal to place tolls on I-95 just across the border from North Stonington. The suspension follows the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) February rejection of Rhode Island's request.