WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 -- Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Connecticut, issued the following statement: Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Chairman of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, today welcomed the submission of the Navy's 2021 unfunded priority list. Of the items listed, the Navy ranked the restoration of the second 2021 Virginia-class submarine as its top priority. "It should be no surprise that restoring the second 2021 Virginia-class submarine ranks as the highest unfunded need  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -- Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, sent a letter to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma in response to a request for information implying CMS is co  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- Rep. John B. Larson, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Top Democrats from the House Ways and Means Committee, House Committee on Oversight and Reform, House Judiciary Committee, and Senate Finance Committee yesterday called for the Trump Administration to withdraw a Social Security Administration (SSA) proposal that would make it more difficult for eligible Americans to receive their Social Security benefits. The proposed changes to the SSA appeals hearin  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Feb. 20: U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, attended and participated in the Munich Security Conference, which drew more than 500 high-level international decision makers to discuss current crises and future security challenges. Murphy joined a panel discussion on bridging troubled waters and de-escalation in the Gulf, alongside Qatar's D  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Feb. 19: U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Wednesday along with 23 of their Democratic Senate colleagues, sent a letter to Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Azar and Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Mick Mulvaney expressing their concern over the Trump Administration's failure so far to outline what addi  more