Press Releases
May 20, 2016
On the eve of his visit to Vietnam, Representatives Louise Slaughter (NY-25), Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), and Paul Tonko (NY-20) today urged President Obama to meet with dissidents, civil society organizations, and labor unions to see firsthand why its inclusion in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is bad for American workers.
May 20, 2016
Today, the Connecticut Congressional Delegation announced that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $1,184,000 in federal grants for assessment, clean-up and redevelopment contaminated brownfield properties across Connecticut.
May 19, 2016
U.S. Representatives John Larson (CT-01), Joe Courtney (CT-02), Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Jim Himes (CT-04), and Elizabeth Esty (CT-05) today released the following statement regarding actions by House Republican leaders that will allow federal contractors to discriminate against LGBT Americans without the threat of losing contracts.
May 18, 2016
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today released the following statement regarding the U.S. International Trade Commission’s report on the economic impact projections of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
May 18, 2016
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today released the following statement regarding the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, which was marked up in the Education & Workforce Committee earlier today.
May 17, 2016
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) tonight released the following statement regarding an amendment sponsored by Representatives DeLauro, Zinke, Rogers, and Lummis that was adopted by voice vote in the House of Representatives. The Amendment ensures the security of the nation’s land-based nuclear forces by requiring an acquisition strategy that will field a UH-1N replacement aircraft by FY 2018.
May 17, 2016
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today released the following statement regarding the U.S. Department of Labor’s final overtime rule, which will raise the overtime pay threshold for workers from $23,660 to $47,476 a year, and from $455 to $913 a week.
May 17, 2016
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) recently introduced H.R. 5232, The Stop Subsidizing Childhood Obesity Act, to end the federal tax subsidy for unhealthy food and beverage marketing to children. U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced the Senate companion to this legislation today.
May 17, 2016
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today joined Congresswoman Nita Lowey (NY-17) and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) to offer an amendment to the FY2017 Defense Bill. The amendment would provide the Administration’s $1.9 billion emergency supplemental funding request to respond the Zika virus.
May 17, 2016
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today led Members of Congress in standing with Colombia’s trade unions and calling on the Administration to fully enforce the Colombia Free Trade Agreement and protect unionists abroad.