Representative Joe Courtney News

About an hour ago, the House of Representatives passed HR 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, which brings us one step closer to health care reform.

It certainly caught our attention recently when Rep. Joe Courtney, the Democrat representing our 2nd District, was the lone congressman from Connecticut to vote against the $10 billion fiscal 2010 Coast Guard Authorization Act.

The American Legion has delivered letters of support to four members of Congress for introducing bills that would improve the Troops to Teachers program, which is designed to make it more accessible for military veterans to transition into careers as educators.

With the expiration of the $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit just weeks away, NAHB last week stepped up its 'Revive Housing, Restore America' campaign, asking association members to participate in a grassroots push for the extension and expansion of the home buyer tax credit.

Will the "Cadillac tax" be able to cruise all the way to the White House? The tax -- not on the luxury cars, but on high-value health plans -- is a key part of the health-reform bill that passed the Senate Finance Committee.

The Troops to Teachers program would be rejuvenated to attract younger veterans to work as public school teachers under a bipartisan plan announced Tuesday.

By 2011, thousands of customers at five municipally owned utilities in Connecticut will be able to determine for themselves when it costs the least to run clothes driers or air conditioners.

As House and Senate leaders struggle to design their health reform bills, they remain at loggerheads over how to pay for broader access to insurance.

" Senators John McCain , Michael Bennet , and Representatives Doris Matsui , Tom Petri , and Joe Courtney , introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Post-9/11 Troops to Teachers Enhancement Act, which seeks to expand the existing Troops to Teachers program to allow more troops to teach in America's schools, during a press conference today in ...

Ledyard has a problem that should be the misfortune of every community. It has more qualified candidates running for Town Council than available seats.

Congress is set to consider new proposals to expand the Troops to Teachers program.

About one-third of group health care plans would be affected by a proposed 40 percent excise tax on insurers and third-party administrators offering the highest-cost health plans by 2019, according to a congressional analysis.

Dairy farmers in Connecticut and the rest of the country might see an influx of federal aid by the end of the year from $350 million in emergency funds included in a Department of Agriculture appropriations bill.

Though hopes for bipartisan cooperation on health-care reform were dashed months ago, there is at least one part of the program that unites labor, Republicans, and Democrats: They all hate the health-insurance excise tax.

Inland Rep. Ken Calvert is helping lead the congressional push to extend a soon-to-expire federal program giving financial assistance to first-time homebuyers.

U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney today urged the White House and congressional leaders to move forward quickly with an extension of the $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit.

Sens. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., called Tuesday for an extension and expansion of the $8,000 tax credit for homebuyers.

The chief of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation said Monday the tribe's quest for federal recognition will not die, despite a federal ruling that rejected claims of undue political influence by Connecticut's top elected officials.

The healthcare negotiator for one of nation's most powerful unions made clear that it opposes a tax on high-cost-insurance plans, despite abstaining from an multi-union campaign objecting to the plan.

When the money is there for the engineering and environmental studies for completion of Route 11, I find state Department of Transportation Commissioner Joseph Marie's reasons for not going ahead with the analysis as disingenuous as they are unconvincing.