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August 2, 2012

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today applauded Wholesome Wave after they secured a $568,150 multi-agency Rural Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge grant by the US Department of Agriculture and US Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA), the Appalachian Regional Commission and Delta Regional Authority.


August 1, 2012

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today blasted a Republican tax proposal, H.R. 8, that the House voted on today for imposing stiff new taxes on military and middle class families, while continuing costly tax breaks for families with incomes over $1 million. H.R.


August 1, 2012

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) today released the following statement after Mitt Romney completed a disastrous international trip to Britain, Israel and Poland:


July 27, 2012

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today applauded a new $14.5 million contracted awarded by the Department of Defense to Farmington-based KBE Building Corporation for the construction of a new commissary at SUBASE New London.


July 26, 2012

WASHINGTON, DC – According to new data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in the first six months of 2012, eastern Connecticut seniors saved $3,005,849 on prescription drugs because of the Affordable Care Act.


July 25, 2012

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after the United States Senate passed legislation to extend middle-class tax cuts and end Bush-era tax breaks for the wealthy:


July 19, 2012

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney and the House of Representatives voted to pass the Fiscal Year 2013 Defense Appropriations Bill by a wide bipartisan margin of 326-90.


July 19, 2012

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) has secured a $10 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).


July 19, 2012

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) has secured a $10 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).


July 13, 2012

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today applauded President Obama's nomination of Vice Adm. John Richardson to be the new director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. Richardson is currently serving as commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet and commander, Allied Submarine Command, Norfolk, Va. He would replace Adm. Kirkland Donald.