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WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that the City of Norwich has secured $500,000 in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justice's COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The funding will be used by the Norwich Police Department to hire four new police officers. The 2012 program requires that all new officers hired under the grant must be military veterans who have served at least 180 days of active military service, any part of which occurred on or after September 11, 2001.

WASHINGTON, DC – With just five days remaining to prevent the interest rate on subsidized Stafford student loans from doubling from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, Senators Joe Lieberman and Richard Blumenthal, and Representatives, Joe Courtney, Rosa DeLauro, John Larson, Chris Murphy and Jim Himes today again reiterated calls for swift action to prevent the rate increase.

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. Because HealthyCT is a non-profit, any profit will be invested back into the plan, keeping premiums affordable and ensuring access to quality, affordable health care for people across Connecticut.

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. The Norwich career fair is the third such fair Courtney is hosting this year; it is being co-hosted by the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut, The Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board (EWIB) and CT Works.

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 Agenda" failed to include mention of any effort to prevent the need-based Stafford Loan interest rate from doubling on July 1.

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 without power, including over 850,000 in Connecticut. The delegation called for the investigation last year.