Press Releases
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-03) issued the following statement today celebrating the new Patient's Bill of Rights protections included in the Affordable Care Act.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-03) issued the following statement today praising Connecticut for becoming the first state to permanently expand Medicaid coverage to low-income adults under the new health reform law, the Affordable Care Act.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-03) issued the following statement today in response to the interim ruling handed down by the World Trade Organization (WTO) against the United States' ban on importing Chinese poultry.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-03) issued the following statement today in reaction to two major recalls announced by the USDA today.
WASHINGTON, DC – Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Joe Lieberman (ID-CT), along with Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Joe Courtney (D-CT), introduced legislation this week that would authorize new partnerships between institutions of higher education and local low-income school districts to enhance teacher skills and student achievement. The Teachers Professional Development Institutes Act would provide for the establishment of eight new Teachers Professional Development Institutes each year over the next five years.
Washington, DC – Representatives Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-03), Chris Murphy (CT-05), and Jim Himes (CT-04) announced today that The Workplace, Inc., Southwestern Connecticut's Regional Workforce Development Board, will be receiving a grant of $500,000 to provide local veterans with green job training. Areas that will be impacted by these funds include: Bridgeport, Norwalk, Stamford, New Haven, and Meriden.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-03) today released the following statement in response to the collapse this morning of a section of the Route 63 Salem Bridge over the Naugatuck River. The portion that collapsed was closed to traffic at the time, but one worker has been injured.
Washington, DC – As BP board members debate whether to move forward with a scheduled dividend payment, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and 31 other members of Congress called on the oil company to instead direct those funds to an escrow account dedicated to cleaning up the Deepwater Horizon spill and compensating its victims.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-03) announced a grant from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of $655,100 to the Connecticut Fund for the Environment, Inc., to help with tidal marsh restoration in New Haven and East Lyme.