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WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today applauded an announcement by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) that it is finalizing a rule to crack down on market manipulation. The rule would expand the CFTC's ability to prosecute manipulation, and, for the first time, it would allow the CFTC to prosecute fraud-based manipulation.

HARTFORD – Members of the Connecticut Congressional delegation and Governor Dannel Malloy applauded today's decision by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reevaluate their analysis of payments to Connecticut hospitals in the FY 2012 Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that the Town of Sprague secured a $22,725 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to begin sewer assessment in Hanover, which is a Village in the Town of Sprague. The Water and Waste Water Disposal Grant will move the Town closer to replacing sewer lines that are more than 100 years old.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after President Obama’s announcement that he is drawing down troops in Afghanistan:

WASHINGTON, DC –Congressman Joe Courtney today invited eastern Connecticut seniors to a public forum to discuss the House Republican plan to privatize Medicare. The forum will be held on Tuesday, June 28, in Willimantic.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today praised the continued success of the partnership between Pratt & Whitney and Enfield’s Asnuntuck Community College, which is providing upgraded job skills to Pratt employees who worked at the company’s closing Cheshire plant.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that eastern Connecticut has secured funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to house homeless veterans.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today re-stated his opposition to the House Republican plan to privatize Medicare as a Bloomberg analysis of Census data showed that the Second District of Connecticut is one of the 10 Congressional districts hardest hit by the plan's changes.