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Washington, D.C. – Congressman Joe Courtney today applauded new data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) showing that 137,452 families in Connecticut will receive $12,949,130 in rebates from their health insurance companies because of the Affordable Care Act's Medical Loss Ratio (MLR).
Washington, DC—The Connecticut Congressional delegation voiced its support today for a $75 million federal loan the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded to HealthyCT. The loan enables HealthyCT to launch a new non-profit, consumer-driven health insurance company, known as a Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan, or CO-OP.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today invited eastern Connecticut job seekers to participate in the career fair he is hosting on Wednesday, June 13, at the Norwich Holiday Inn between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Washington, DC –Today, Congressmen Joe Courtney (D-CT), John Tierney (D-MA) and George Miller (D-CA) spearheaded the following letter to Majority Leader Eric Cantor asking why the Republican "Summer Legislative Agend
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney, a member of the House Armed Services Committee and co-chairman of the Congressional Shipbuilding Conference, today represented Connecticut at the commissioning of the USS Mississippi - the Navy's newest Virginia-class submarine - in Pascagoula, Miss.
WASHINGTON, DC — The Connecticut Congressional Delegation responded today to the joint Federal Energy Regulatory Commission/North America Electric Reliability Corporation report into the causes and unacceptable response of Connecticut Light & Power and its parent company, Northeast Utilities, to last October's snowstorm that left more than two million households with
WASHINGTON, DC – Senators Joe Lieberman and Richard Blumenthal and Congressman Joe Courtney today applauded the announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the Town of Preston secured $800,000 in competitive grants to assess and clean up brownfield sites at the former Norwich Hospital property on Route 12.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that New London-based LifePharms secured a $299,998 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). LifePharms will use the competitive grant funding to research and develop compounds to fight drug-resistant fungi.
Bill includes measures secured by Courtney to extend doubled submarine production through 2018, protect EB engineering, design, building jobs