Press Releases

With A Number of Issues Awaiting Action, Delegation Again Calls on Leadership to Keep House in Session

WASHINGTON, DC – The entire Connecticut House Delegation released the following statement today as Speaker John Boehner attempts to push through a lawsuit against President Barack Obama in the final days before the August District Work Period:

SWEET Act Would Discourage Excessive Sugar in Beverages

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today introduced the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Tax (SWEET) Act to tackle the dual epidemics of obesity and diabetes by discouraging excessive sugar in beverages. The SWEET Act would institute a tax of 1 cent per teaspoon of caloric sweetener, such as sugar or high-fructose corn syrup.

Washington D.C. -- Representative Rosa DeLauro with Rep. Jim Moran and Rep. Adam Kinzinger introduced legislation to re-impose and expand sanctions against Rosoboronexport, Russia’s largest arms exporter, prohibiting the direct or indirect use of government funds to enter into contracts or agreements with the Russian company.

Bill Would Curb the Number of Contracts Going To Inverted Corporations

WASHINGTON, DC—Leading Democrats from both chambers of Congress—Representatives Rosa DeLauro and Lloyd Doggett, and Senators Dick Durbin and Carl Levin—today introduced the No Federal Contracts for Corporate Deserters Act. The legislation would bar contracts from going to businesses that incorporate overseas, are majority-owned by shareholders of the old U.S. corporation, and do not have substantial business opportunities in the foreign country in which they are incorporating.

NEW HAVEN, CT—Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and Senator Richard Blumenthal today joined New Haven Mayor Toni Harp and a number of patient advocates and doctors to highlight the Medicare Advantage Participant Bill of Rights. The legislation was developed as a result of UnitedHealth Group’s unprecedented dropping of doctors from their Medicare Advantage networks, including the entire Yale-New Haven Hospital network.

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today voted against legislation that would reduce or eliminate the Child Tax Credit (CTC) for millions of working parents. Shortly before the vote she spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives; those remarks are below and a video can be viewed here.

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) issued the following statement today on Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s plan to dismantle the social safety net. DeLauro is the Senior Democrat on the subcommittee responsible for funding the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. DeLauro spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives about Chairman Ryan’s budget this evening. Her remarks can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/user/RosaDeLauro

WASHINGTON, DC—This week the House of Representatives sent a clear, bipartisan message that America’s children are not for sale by passing a number of bills dealing with child trafficking. However, not a single one of those bills deals with the people who buy children for sex. And during a recent nationwide operation targeting sex trafficking, no buyers of underage children were arrested. While those bills, and the sting, are all necessary and should be fully supported, the root of the problem cannot be addressed until both traffickers and buyers are targeted.