Press Releases
Applauds President Obama’s Focus on Increasing Economic Opportunities
WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) released the following statement tonight in reaction to President Obama’s State of the Union address. She is the senior Democrat on the subcommittee responsible for funding the departments of Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services. DeLauro was accompanied to the speech by Lilly Ledbetter, who became the face of the fair pay movement after discovering her employer had paid her 40 percent less than her male counterparts for the same work.
WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today urged United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to reject a proposed change to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). The change, buried in an explanatory statement that accompanied the fiscal year 2014 government funding bill, would allow WIC funding to be used to purchase the currently excluded white potato.
NEW HAVEN, CT—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today urged Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to implement and enforce strong country-of-origin labeling (COOL) standards. The explanatory statement accompanying the fiscal year 2014 government funding bill signed into law last week does not approve of any Agriculture Marketing Service spending for COOL implementation and enforcement.
New CBO Score Shows Taxpayers Would Save $387 Million
Long Island Sound is $9 billion economic engine
Washington, D.C.— Today, Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Steve Israel (D-NY) Chairs of the Long Island Sound Caucus, announced that the Omnibus Appropriations bill, which passed the House by a vote of 359 to 67, includes $3.9 million in federal funding for the Long Island Sound program and approximately $600,000 through EPA’s National Estuary Program. This is approximately $200,000 more than last year’s funding levels and $1 million more than the President’s Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Request of $2.9 million.
Bipartisan Legislation Will Prevent another Government Shutdown
WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) released the following statement today in support of the legislation before the House of Representatives funding the U.S. government for fiscal year 2014. DeLauro is the senior Democrat on the subcommittee responsible for funding the departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services. A video of DeLauro’s remarks can be viewed here.
WASHINGTON, DC--Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), issued the following statement today on Congressman Jim Moran’s announcement that he will not seek re-election:
“Jim and I started our House careers together in 1991. Before that, we were both Senate staffers: Jim was on the Appropriations Committee and I was chief of staff to Senator Chris Dodd.
WASHINGTON, DC—Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and George Miller (D-CA) released the following statement today on the proposal by Senator Max Baucus and Rep. Dave Camp to grant the Administration outdated “Fast Track” authority.
Roaches, Not Salmonella Outbreaks Shut Down Plant
WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Louise Slaughter (D-NY) released the following comment today on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s decision to order Foster Farms to suspend operations at their Livingston, CA plant. Despite being linked to hundreds of illnesses caused by a drug-resistant strain of Salmonella Heidelberg, it was a roach infestation that has finally provoked USDA to act.
WASHINGTON, DC—In midst of record-breaking cold weather caused by the Polar Vortex, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) is calling on President Obama to restore funding for LIHEAP, the federal program that helps low-income Americans pay their energy bills.