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Norwich U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney last week visited with Donovan Kelleher of Norwich, a senior at Norwich Free Academy, who won this year's Congressional Arts Competition in the Second Congressional District.

Since September 2010, 528 homeless women have been referred to Bethsaida Inc.'s Homeless Women Deserve Treatment program for services ranging from treatment for substance abuse, mental illness and physical illnesses to job training and placement counseling.

The Federal Aviation Administration will keep open for now the 149 control towers at small airports that were slated to close as the result of governmentwide automatic spending cuts imposed by Congress, the Transportation Department said Friday.

Last June, after months of political wrangling, Democrats and Republicans in Congress passed legislation to prevent the interest rate on government-subsidized Stafford student loans from doubling from 3.4 to 6.8 percent on July 1 . However, the fix was only funded for a year and the rates are set to increase again this summer.

A Democratic bill introduced in the Senate and House on Thursday would prevent student loan rates from doubling as scheduled in July, while capping them in the future and permitting students to refinance current loans to a lower rate.

House Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans.

House Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans.

U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney announced today that a total of $600,000 in brownfield-cleanup grants have been made available to clean up sites in New London and Willimantic.

If it is spring, it is the time of flowers, showers and congressional bloodletting over federal student loan interest rates, set to rise in July.

With the rates on subsidized federal student loans set to double on July 1 from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, Rep.

The message was clear Thursday as Connecticut's five representatives in the U.S. House gathered in Hartford to talk about economic matters.

There won't be a new round of military base closures in 2015 if members of Connecticut's congressional delegation have anything to say about it.

U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney , a Democrat from Connecticut, is speaking outside the U.S. Capitol about ways Congress can address the nation's student debt crisis.

If Representative Tim Walz has his way, Minnesota college students and graduates could catch a break.

From left, Congressmen Bill Flores, R-Texas, Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, tour a depot in Afghanistan Saturday where the U.S. Army is sorting and packaging equipment in preparation for the drawdown of U.S. forces in the country.

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal , Senator Chris Murphy , Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and Congressman Joe Courtney announced today the award of three federal fire Operations and Safety Grants to improve fire safety and operations in Middletown, the Wauregan Fire District in Plainfield and Willington.

Federal lawmakers have been mulling ways to address the growing problem of student loan debt and rising instances of delinquency and default on those accounts, but now conflicting views as to how to do so has stymied progress on Capitol Hill.

With just over nine weeks to go before rates hike, Congress seems nowhere close to finding a solution to stop student loan rates doubling from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1. Rep.