Rep. Joe Courtney

I had the honor of joining the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation for the Fire Department Chief Anthony Saccone’s pinning ceremony – presided by Chairman Rodney Butler. Chief Saccone and I worked together for over a decade to secure Public Safety Officers benefits for our…

Families across eastern CT are feeling the rising cost of food. Trump tariffs are projected to raise consumer costs even higher by over $200/month. From foods we don’t grow in the US – like coffee and bananas – to locally grown eastern CT produced with higher input costs, every…

Today, Australia made a $500 million payment into the U.S. Submarine Industrial Base. This is the second installment of a total $3 BILLION investment to help us build more submarines. Unprecedented support from an ally. It's only happening because of AUKUS. 🇺🇸🇦🇺

Speaker Johnson just shut down the House for 6 weeks to avoid a simple vote on a bipartisan bill to release the Epstein files. Left undone: Preventing a shutdown, lowering costs, & securing our national defense. All are more important than protecting Epstein's black book.

Great news. My bill to mandate a single ZIP Code for Scotland has passed the House. Scotland residents face the serious consequences of having six ZIP Codes for a town of less than 1,600 people. It’s an inexcusable man-made issue that screams out for Congress to deliver a…

President Trump, Vice President Vance, & Attorney General Bondi have done a 180 degree turn on the Epstein files. This week, House Republicans tried to deflect with a do-nothing, non-biding resolution that does nothing to provide transparency. Pass a law. Release the Epstein…

President Trump promised to “love and cherish” Medicaid. Well, he just signed into law the largest Medicaid cut in U.S. history – nearly $1 trillion. Not a lot of "love" for hospitals, seniors, and kids who will take the hit with loss of coverage.

Really great to join Putnam Elks Community Day over the weekend. It was a special day to celebrate the Putnam Lodge of Elks 574’s 125th anniversary.

Last weekend, I stopped by the under-construction CT National Guard Putnam Readiness Center to see its progress. It won’t be long before the new Readiness Center is a reality. This federally funded project will ensure that the Guard returns to the Quiet Corner!

The brutal killing of Palestinian-American Sayfollah Musallet must be met with justice and accountability. Settler violence in the West Bank continues to surge. I’m a co-sponsor of the West Bank Violence Prevention Act, which seeks to prevent settler violence and hold those who…

Good news. The House Armed Services Committee just adopted my bipartisan amendment to close a funding gap for 2 Virginia-class submarines in the 2026 budget. A chaotic budget process left a huge shortfall for Virginia submarines. Our committee worked in a bipartisan fashion to…

President Trump is trying to force American taxpayers to pay for his luxury Qatari plane. And his Administration isn’t even being transparent about the costs! We know that retrofitting a plane to be Air Force One costs into the BILLIONS. I filed an NDAA amendment to prohibit any…

This year’s defense budget process has been messy & chaotic. The Trump Administration failed to provide a strategically-sound budget and inexplicably split funding into two vehicles: the base budget & the reconciliation bill. But once again, the Seapower Subcommittee overcame the…

PFAS forever chemicals are a serious health risk to our communities. In Preston, farmer and town Selectman Jerry Grabarek has discovered high levels of PFAS in his blood. We met to discuss the long overdue federal response to forever chemical pollution.

We need an all of the above approach to lowering energy costs. The partisan GOP budget bill just sent us in the wrong direction by eliminating clean energy tax credits. I visited solar and battery business Earthlight Tech in Ellington to hear the impact of these cuts on CT.…

Eastern Connecticut and Australia may be 10,000 miles apart, but our partnership through AUKUS is ironclad and only getting stronger. I recently met virtually with UConn and a delegation from the University of Adelaide visiting Storrs. UConn’s National Institute for Undersea…

Even as families across the country are struggling with rising food costs, the partisan GOP budget bill passed last week makes huge cuts to food assistance programs to pay for tax breaks for the rich. At Access Agency in Willimantic, which enrolls needy families in SNAP and…

President Trump promised that he would “love and cherish” Medicaid and Medicare. Now, he just signed into law the largest cut to Medicaid in U.S. history in a bill that is so fiscally irresponsible, it will also trigger a $500 billion cut to Medicare. All to give the rich a tax…

A total blast to join the 40th annual Willimantic Boom Box Parade! A true grassroots patriotic tradition.

Wishing everyone in CT's 2nd District a happy & safe Independence Day! 249 years ago, our nation threw off King George III's autocratic rule, defining our national identity. Today & everyday, thank you to our servicemembers, military families, and veterans for bravely defending…