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WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today
announced that the Town of Preston secured a $964,250 grant from the U.S.
Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) for
demolition of the buildings and site preparation of the former Norwich Hospital
site. The funds will also be used for redevelopment of the proposed
multi-use Preston Riverwalk Development project. The project will
diversify and energize the region's economic base with new business

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that groups in towns across southeastern Connecticut secured grants worth $261,534 from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to clean up the Long Island Sound, improve water quality in the state, and for habitat restoration and education programs.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that the University of Connecticut secured five grants from the U.S. Department of Education totaling $710,752 per year for three years to provide direct fellowship aid to graduate students pursuing degrees in areas of national need.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today introduced new legislation to help students and their families gain more information about their financial aid options for higher education and a truer picture of actual college costs. The Understanding the True Cost of College Act, which already has 11 cosponsors, would ensure that students and their families receive award letters in a standard format with understandable language and easy-to-understand terms.

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. Earlier this week, Lieberman, Blumenthal and Courtney wrote to President Obama in support of the State's request for a declaration, which makes it possible for Congress to appropriate funds toward alleviating the financial hardship to fishermen caused by the fishery disaster.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after UConn head basketball coach Jim Calhoun announced his retirement:

"Coach Calhoun's footprint in Connecticut will last for ages. His three national championships transformed our state's self image into one of a winner, and his decades of acts of charity and kindness to those in need have touched countless lives. Most recently, he also led the charge for reform of the basketball program's academic system, which has already produced dramatic improvement in the past two years.

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 Boat. The 2013 CR, which is expected to be passed in the House tomorrow, would fund the government for six months through March 2013.