{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://courtney.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-courtney-celebrates-national-coast-guard-museum-topping", "Rep. Courtney Celebrates National Coast Guard Museum \u201cTopping Off\u201d", "2025-11-10", "2025", "2025-11", "Democrat", "House", "CT", "Joe Courtney", "C001069", "courtney.house.gov", "courtney", "https://courtney.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "NORWICH, CT \u2013 Today in New London, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) joined President Captain Wes Pulver, Chair of the National Coast Guard Museum Association, Susan Curtin, and many of its board members to celebrate the \u201ctopping off\u201d of the future National Coast Guard Museum. The ceremony marks the raising of the final structural beam of the Museum building and recognizes the hard work of the contractors such as A/Z Corporation and Berlin Steel, the Connecticut Building Trades such as the carpenters and operating engineers, who have been working around the clock to complete this building.\n\n\"The Coast Guard's motto, Semper Paratus or \u2018always ready,\u2019 is demonstrated every day by the people who don the uniform in service to a grateful country,\u201d said Courtney. \u201cThis museum represents the best that the Coast Guard has to offer and will ensure that the Coast Guard\u2019s history and critical contributions to the safety of our coasts and rivers will be on display for all to see. The New London community eagerly awaits its completion and looks forward welcoming travelers looking for another great reason to visit eastern Connecticut. At this ceremony and every time I have visited the construction site, the enthusiasm of the dedicated workers is palpable, and this 'topping off' marks the rapid, tangible progress of the museum\u2019s construction. I extend my heartiest congratulations to all involved in the labor and planning to reach this milestone.\n\n\u201cOn behalf of the entire National Coast Guard Museum Association team, we are thrilled to celebrate this important milestone in building the National Coast Guard Museum. It marks a significant moment in this historic project that will honor the service and sacrifice of the men and women of the Coast Guard,\u201d said Wes Pulver, President of the National Coast Guard Museum Association. \u201cWe are deeply grateful for Congressman Courtney\u2019s leadership and for the steadfast support of the entire Connecticut federal delegation. Their commitment\u2014along with critical federal investment\u2014has been essential to advancing this national project for our Nation.\u201d\n\nThe Coast Guard not only serves to protect U.S. waterways but deploys across the world in partnership with other nations in the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean. In the best sense of service and partnership, the Coast Guard leads and assists other nations with fishing rights, protecting marine resources, assisting with search and rescue, and enforces maritime safety in the support of free and safe waterways around the world.\n\nConnecticut\u2019s Second District is home to the United States Coast Guard Academy and other Coast Guard facilities that do cutting-edge work developing homeland security protection, maritime safety, and climate resiliency. As a co-chair of the bipartisan House Coast Guard Caucus and a member of the Coast Guard Board of Visitors appointed by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Rep. Courtney has worked to support this project over the past eighteen years.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://courtney.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-courtney-celebrates-national-coast-guard-museum-topping"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5914887189865112, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}