Topic: Joe Courtney

Proposed legislation targets abuse of veterans' small-business program

Federal Computer Week - 561 days ago
A provision in H.R. 6022 states that a company cannot be added to the program until federal officials have verified its status. The Government Accountability Office has conducted several investigations into fraud in the Small Business Administration's development programs. In ...

Electric Boat buying Pfizer site in Conn.

AP Features - 607 days ago
Submarine maker Electric Boat, enjoying a boom in military demand, said Monday it will buy a research and development site from drug manufacturer Pfizer Inc. for a major expansion in southeastern Connecticut.Parent company General Dynamics Corp. will spend $99 million to ...

IDFA Lauds Healthy Milk, Dairy Choices in Schools Act

Food Product Design - 677 days ago
The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) is supporting a bill that would require milk served in school lunches to be lowfat or nonfat. Introduced by Rep. Joe Courtney, (D-CT), co-chair of the U.S. House Dairy Caucus, the Healthy Milk and Dairy ...

Conn. congressman, businesses on Israel trade trip

AP News - 682 days ago
<div id="subtitle">Conn. congressman, 18 businesses meet with Israeli, Palestinian companies to boost trade</div><div><p>U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney and Connecticut business owners and representatives are in Israel this week promoting commercial ties Courtney says need to be ...

Health reform: Is tax on 'Cadillac' plans fair?

AP Features - 817 days ago
Schoolteacher Kinzi Blair makes only $46,000 a year, but she has what many would consider a " Like 57 percent of Americans surveyed in a recent Associated Press poll, she favors a new income tax on wealthy Americans, which the House would ...

INSIDE WASHINGTON: Starting over on a helicopter

AP News - 991 days ago
$3 billion later, presidential helicopter headed back to the drawing boardOnce the effort to replace the president's aging fleet of helicopters became the poster child for government waste, it didn't take long for the multibillion-dollar program to hit the chopping ...

Election 2008: Who People in Connecticut Should Vote For

Esquire - 1219 days ago
the name of the incumbent candidate is italicized, while the candidate we're endorsing is in bold.. Esquire endorses: Esquire endorses: Esquire endorses: Murphy broke Republican Nancy Johnson's Big Pharma--funded chokehold on the district in 2006. It forces major government contractors-- ...

Spokesman calls Conn. campaign win a 'lost cause'

AP News - 1229 days ago
Spokesman posts on Twitter that Conn. congressional campaign is a 'lost cause'The spokesman for a Connecticut congressional candidate is learning that not everything is private on the Internet.On Sept. 30, a University of Connecticut poll showed Republican Sean Sullivan trailing ...

No Pledge on Troop Exit No Problem, Democratic Congressman Says

Crosswalk - 1408 days ago
Barack Obama (Ill.) and Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) have refused to pledge that they would withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq by 2013 - if one of them is elected president - that lack of commitment to withdraw the troops is not something ...