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WASHINGTON, DC – This week, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee and a senior Member of the House Education and Workforce Committee, led bipartisan introduction of the Job Corps and Skilled Defense Workforce Act. The bill is co-sponsored by 14 House Members.
WASHINGTON, DC – This week, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) cosponsored the No Taxpayer-Funded Slush Funds Act (H.R. 8914), a bill which would prohibit the use of federal funds to create or finance the $1.8 billion slush fund established under the settlement in Trump v. IRS and impose new restrictions to prevent taxpayer dollars from being steered to Trump allies and January 6th defendants.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, in a Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee hearing, Ranking Member Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) questioned the timeline of the Navy’s proposed battleship program.
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Congressman Joe Courtney was elected in 2006 to represent the Second Congressional District of Connecticut in the House of Representatives. He serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Congressman Courtney is the Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces. From 2018-2022, Courtney served as Chairman of the Subcommittee. According to a review by House Historians Office, Courtney was the first known member from Connecticut to lead a naval oversight panel in the House of Representatives since 1873, when Stephen W. Kellogg of Waterbury served as Chair of the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department in the 42nd Congress (1871-1873).