Joe Courtney

There is still much work to be done, but Congressional support is strong to move the spent fuel initiative that has occurred over multiple administrations.

The expansion of the Connecticut State Veterans Cemetery will mean more families are able to lay their loved ones to rest at a site that honors and remembers their service to our nation.

Connecticut farmers have weathered serious crop losses in recent years.

This is just going to be one of those milestones that our children and grandchildren are going to experience. It’s a big deal.

There is no question that the days of blank check military assistance to Netanyahu’s government are long past.

One of the most insulting, tone-deaf messages to 5 million nurses imaginable across the country.

This exclusion will, in fact, raise education costs for critically needed nurses.

This bill does not have consensus support from those its proponents claim. Again, as has been stated by Ms. Omar, I join with her in calling on the Senate to continue to work on this bill and focus on the achievements of Senator McCain in…

This is incredibly problematic and entirely unjustifiable. Put simply, there is no reason for Congress to actively remove these protections for those fighters who choose to sign with the UBO, and there is no reason for a UBO to be exempt…

The Interior Department should take the hint and let the thousands of construction workers finish the job.

You’d basically have to tear the plane down to the studs and rebuild it to meet all the survivability, security and communications requirements of Air Force One.

Project 2025, which is the document generated by the Heritage Foundation, with dozens of former Trump officials, Russell Vought, the former budget director of the Trump administration

The reason, and as a former employer, is that if Congress made that move, it basically would add to the taxable income of all the employees

Again, I would just like to ask all the other witnesses, the simple question yes or no, do you think Congress should reduce the tax-exempt status of health care--employer-sponsored health plans?

Rather than roll back our historic progress, this Committee should move forward with House Democrats' legislation to extend drug price negotiations beyond Medicare.

The Republicans' extreme 'Project 2025' policy agenda proposes to repeal this program and put billions in the pockets of big pharma.

The fact that again, now the Labor Department has embraced that role, I think is something that is very welcome

The annual Gallup Poll still shows that labor is in a far stronger position with the American public than it has maybe 10 or 15 years ago.

Again, could you comment, again, on that ruling, which actually was about restoring a 40-year precedent...

This is our sixth hearing in the 118th Congress on this Subcommittee that I would really almost just describe as union bashing.

The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Education just reported in 2023, they had a record number of complaints.

Research consistently shows that when workers band together to have a voice and exercise their right to organize, they have higher pay, better benefits, and safer workplaces.

Thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which we passed in the last Congress under President Biden's leadership, Thomas Built Buses have more orders than ever and are working hard to provide clean energy school buses that will help…

Let us make one thing clear. Workers are their union.