Press Releases
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.
Today, U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and John Cornyn (R-TX) and Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ), Michael McCaul (R-TX), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Victoria Spartz (R-IN) released a joint statement on the new proposal for an outbound investment mechanism in the conference of H.R.4521, the Bipartisan Innovation Act.
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, released the following statement on the 59th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act:
"Almost sixty years ago, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act. This legislation enshrined into federal law the principle of ‘equal pay for equal work'. While we celebrate this historic moment in the fight for equal pay, we understand that much more work must be done to truly realize that principle.
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today issued the following statement following the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack's first night of public hearings: