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House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today applauded the U.S. Department of Education and the Biden Administration on improving transparency and accountability in the Charter Schools Program (CSP).
Chair of the House Appropriations Committee Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today commended House passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, legislation to reduce gun violence and better community safety. The legislation now heads to President Biden's desk to be signed into law.
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) released a statement in response to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
"I wish I was shocked, but I sadly am not. This activist conservative Supreme Court that lambasts decisions it does not like as judicial activism has made a dangerous move, disregarding science and decades of legal precedent to strip away a woman's fundamental and constitutional right to make her own health care decisions. Make no mistake, this decision puts women's lives at risk.
Chair of the House Appropriations Committee Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) issued the following statement following an announcement that the Food and Drug Administration banned JUUL products from the U.S. market. The ban issued by the FDA subjects any JUUL product offered for sale or distributed in the United States to FDA enforcement action.
Chair of the House Appropriations Committee Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today applauded House passage of the Keep Kids Fed Act, legislation to extend school meal waivers for children through the summer months.
Chair of the House Appropriations Committee Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today applauded House passage of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health (ARPA-H) Act. This legislation would accelerate innovation in health and medicine by investing in high-risk, high-reward research projects, particularly in areas where public and private research enterprises currently fail.
Chair of the House Appropriations Committee Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today commended House passage of H.R. 7666, the Restoring Hope for Mental Health and Well-Being Act, legislation that would expand treatment for opioid-use disorders, promote behavioral health integration, and reauthorize critical programs that support mental health and substance use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery.
Chair of the House Appropriations Committee Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) applauded the inclusion of her School Based Mental Health Services Grants program in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, bipartisan legislation that would reduce gun violence and better community safety.
Chair of the House Appropriations Committee Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and Chair of the House Rules Committee and Co-Chair of the House Hunger Caucus James McGovern (MA-02) today applauded the bipartisan House and Senate agreement on extending school meal waivers to keep schoolchildren fed.