Press Releases
Marks National Pharmacist Day at Hamden’s Apex Pharmacy
NEW HAVEN, CT—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today marked National Pharmacist Day by getting her flu shot at Hamden’s Apex Pharmacy. While there, she joined with Leslie Balch from the Quinnipiack Valley Health District to urge Connecticut residents to do the same.
WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) released the following statement today applauding President Obama’s proposal to provide free community college tuition for responsible students. She will discuss the America’s College Promise proposal and other ways to deal with college affordability next Friday in Connecticut.
Urges Administration to Finalize Mechanically Tenderized Beef Rule
WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) released the following statement today applauding the State of Connecticut for releasing over $11 million in Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Relief (CDBG-DR) funding to ten projects in five Third District communities.
NEW HAVEN, CT—Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, and Representatives Rosa DeLauro today announced that Connecticut will be receiving funding from the Commodity Supplemental Food Program for the first time. The final funding amount for Connecticut is still to be determined, but will likely allow thousands of seniors to access healthy food through the program.
NEW HAVEN, CT—Connecticut Representatives Rosa DeLauro and Elizabeth Esty today urged the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to consider purchasing 250,000 of the Flublok vaccine from Meriden’s Protein Sciences Corporation. Protein Sciences specializes in vaccine development and has also been working on an Ebola vaccine.
NEW HAVEN, CT—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) released the following statement today on a Bloomberg report that the Department of Homeland Security has continued to award lucrative federal contracts to Ingersoll-Rand in violation of a 2002 law that bars them from doing
NEW HAVEN, CT—Representatives Rosa DeLauro, Senator Richard Blumenthal, and Representatives Joe Courtney, Jim Himes and Elizabeth Esty today called for increased consumer protections in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today Reps. Henry A. Waxman, Frank Pallone, Jr., Rosa L. DeLauro, Carolyn B. Maloney, and Charles W. Dent wrote to eighteen universities urging them to consider ending practices that could endanger their students’ health by allowing them to use university debit cards to pay at indoor tanning salons.
NEW HAVEN, CT—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) released the following statement today on the charges against 14 former owners and employees of the New England Compounding Pharmacy. The now-closed pharmacy was associated with over 750 illnesses and over 60 deaths linked to fungal meningitis or fungal arthritis.