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DemocratJoe Courtney
U.S. Representative · Connecticut
Connecticut's 2nd district
U.S. Representative from Connecticut
0 tracked promises
Running against
How they won their seat
Joe Courtney won the 2024 U.S. House election in Connecticut (District 2) with 58% of the vote (218,162 votes).
- Joe Courtney · Democrat58%218,162
- Mike France · Republican42%157,878
- 1 Other Candidate0%4
Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.
Inferred legislative agendas
Joe Courtney's record includes a pattern of sponsored bills and committee memberships related to education, workforce development, and healthcare access. He has sponsored multiple bills related to student loans, community colleges, and Medicare, such as the Student Loan Interest Elimination Act and the Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act. Focus areas (from the record): Education · Workforce Development · Healthcare · Military Affairs · Community Support Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against his legislative activity, making it difficult to determine alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There is no information on the politician's stated goals or priorities; The impact of campaign finance on legislative behavior is not disclosed. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Joe Courtney has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.
Showing 2021. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.
Activity in office
What Joe Courtney has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score.
- Bills sponsored
- 15
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$164K11%
- Large individual (itemized)$595K40%
- PAC / committee$738K49%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Armed ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Education and WorkforceOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — Tactical Air and Land ForcesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Education and Workforce — Higher Education and Workforce DevelopmentOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Education and Workforce — Health, Employment, Labor, and PensionsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Armed Services — Seapower and Projection ForcesOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
173 sponsored billsFacts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.
Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9735: To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to establish a grant program to enable law students to assist participants and beneficiaries in certain civil enforcement actions, and for other purposes. ↗Jul 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8925: Job Corps and Skilled Defense Workforce Act ↗May 20, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1209: Recognizing the significance of "Community College Month" in April as a celebration of more than 1,000 institutions throughout the United States supporting access to higher education, workforce training, and more, broadly sustaining and advancing the Nation's economic prosperity. ↗Apr 23, 2026
- Sponsored HJRES 155: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Education relating to "William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) Program". ↗Apr 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8045: Student Loan Interest Elimination Act ↗Mar 24, 2026
- Sponsored HR 3954: Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2025 ↗Jun 12, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3036: Protecting America’s Workers Act ↗Apr 28, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 340: Recognizing the significance of "Community College Month" in April 2025 as a celebration of the more than 1,000 community colleges throughout the United States that support access to higher education, workforce training, and more, and broadly sustain and advance the economic prosperity of the United States. ↗Apr 21, 2025
- Sponsored HR 2829: SERVICE Act ↗Apr 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 2531: Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act ↗Apr 1, 2025
- Sponsored HR 2041: Hidden Fee Disclosure Act of 2025 ↗Mar 11, 2025
- Sponsored HR 10547: MAGNET Act ↗Dec 20, 2024
Showing the 12 most recent of 173 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 266
- Nay
- 311
- Present
- 1
- Not voting
- 31
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR139Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Yea
- HRES1398Nay
- HRES1398Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Stated positions
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Disclosure
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No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.
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