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Joined by college students and presidents to stand up against education budget cuts
Washington, DC— Representatives Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), Ranking Member on the Labor, Education, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, and George Miller (CA-7), Ranking Member on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, spoke out against the proposed Republican cuts to education funding, and specifically Pell Grants.
Washington, DC— Congresswoman Rosa L.DeLauro (CT-3), Ranking Member on the Labor, Education, Health, andHuman Services Appropriations Subcommittee, made the following remarkson the Floor of the United States House of Representatives today.
As Prepared for Delivery
Governing is about choices. Everyone inthis body agrees that we need to get our fiscal house in order, bringdown the deficit and cut programs that do not work. The question beforeus is how we choose to get there.
Washington, DC— Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) celebrated a Department of Education School Improvement Grants (SIG) award of $4.23 million to the state of Connecticut to help improve persistently low achieving schools.
Washington, DC— Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), Ranking Member on the Labor, Education, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, released the following statement today in response to the Department of Labor's announcement that the economy added 216,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 8.8 percent in March.
Washington, DC— Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) announced two Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grants, totaling $123,914, for the towns of Derby and New Haven today. Part of the Housing Choice Voucher- Family Self Sufficiency Program, these funds will be used to support the development of local strategies to help families increase their income potential and become more self-sufficient.
The individual grants awarded are:
Derby: $54,914
New Haven: $69,000
Investment expected to prevent shoreline erosion, promote business growth, create jobs
Washington, DC— Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) and Mayor of New Haven John DeStefano announced today that the Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) has awarded the City of New Haven $651,615 to rebuild the failing bulkhead at River Street, stabilizing the shoreline of the Quinnipiac River to prevent further erosion and preparing the area for future development projects.
14,900% proposed increase in cost for drug to help prevent premature births
Washington, DC— Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), Ranking Member on the Labor, Education, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, sent a letter to Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, today expressing her concern over the cost of KV Pharmaceutical’s new drug Makena and the need to ensure balance in public-private research partnerships.
1.5 million private-sector jobs added since Affordable Care Act was signed into law last year
Washington, DC— Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-3) co-chaired a hearing of the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee today about the Affordable Care Act, which has created jobs, lowered health care costs, and improved access to care for millions of Americans. Below are the Congresswoman’s opening remarks.
New Haven, CT— Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-3) visited the Wallingford Senior Center today and discussed how the proposed House Republican budget cuts on the Social Security Administration would affect Americans.
Washington, DC— Representatives Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-3), Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Gwen Moore (WI-4), Jan Schakowsky (IL-9), and Linda Sánchez (CA-39) honored the memory of the 146 lives lost in the 1911 Triangle Factory Fire in New York City today, on the 100th anniversary of the tragedy.