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The bill, which would peg interest rates for student loans to the 10-year Treasury bond rate, passed 221-198, with four Democrats joining all but eight of Minnesota, argued that the vote helped move Congress toward resolving the issue rather than coming to a stand-off later this summer.

A House subcommittee has not only rejected the administration's request for base closings in 2015, it expressly forbade a new round.

All local Chambers and business owners are invited to join members of the Suffield Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, May 30, 7:30-9 a.m., at Mapleton Hall, 1305 Mapleton Ave., Suffield, where Congressman Joe Courtney will discuss incentives for small businesses, recent and pending legislation effecting CT business and the outlook on CT economy.

Secretary of the State Denise Merrill today announced she is currently leading an eight-day trade mission to China with executives from the Connecticut aerospace, biotech, and pharmaceutical industries.

A weak domestic economy has encouraged a sharp rise in the number of Connecticut companies that are seeking markets overseas, according to a survey released today by the Connecticut Business & Industry Association.

Norwich U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney last week visited with Donovan Kelleher of Norwich, a senior at Norwich Free Academy, who won this year's Congressional Arts Competition in the Second Congressional District.

Since September 2010, 528 homeless women have been referred to Bethsaida Inc.'s Homeless Women Deserve Treatment program for services ranging from treatment for substance abuse, mental illness and physical illnesses to job training and placement counseling.

The Federal Aviation Administration will keep open for now the 149 control towers at small airports that were slated to close as the result of governmentwide automatic spending cuts imposed by Congress, the Transportation Department said Friday.

Last June, after months of political wrangling, Democrats and Republicans in Congress passed legislation to prevent the interest rate on government-subsidized Stafford student loans from doubling from 3.4 to 6.8 percent on July 1 . However, the fix was only funded for a year and the rates are set to increase again this summer.

A Democratic bill introduced in the Senate and House on Thursday would prevent student loan rates from doubling as scheduled in July, while capping them in the future and permitting students to refinance current loans to a lower rate.

House Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans.

House Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans.

U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney announced today that a total of $600,000 in brownfield-cleanup grants have been made available to clean up sites in New London and Willimantic.

If it is spring, it is the time of flowers, showers and congressional bloodletting over federal student loan interest rates, set to rise in July.

With the rates on subsidized federal student loans set to double on July 1 from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, Rep.

The message was clear Thursday as Connecticut's five representatives in the U.S. House gathered in Hartford to talk about economic matters.

There won't be a new round of military base closures in 2015 if members of Connecticut's congressional delegation have anything to say about it.

U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney , a Democrat from Connecticut, is speaking outside the U.S. Capitol about ways Congress can address the nation's student debt crisis.

If Representative Tim Walz has his way, Minnesota college students and graduates could catch a break.

From left, Congressmen Bill Flores, R-Texas, Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, tour a depot in Afghanistan Saturday where the U.S. Army is sorting and packaging equipment in preparation for the drawdown of U.S. forces in the country.