Joe Courtney actually said...

"We must fund home energy assistance programs like LIHEAP for families across the country who are struggling to stay warm."

"I feel a special responsibility to help meet the needs of that community and to the parents who have suffered such unimaginable horror."

"This is a committee which last year and apparently this year again seems to be the place where the strongest effort is being made, in my opinion, to butcher a program which has done so much in terms o..."

"It's a national crisis."