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House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today voted to pass the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, historic legislation to create jobs, strengthen the economy, and revitalize crumbling infrastructure.

House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in support of advancing the Build Back Better Act.

House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) issued this statement celebrating the inclusion of four weeks of paid family and medical leave in the Build Back Better Act.

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee and the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, issued the following statement on revisions by the U.S. Department of Education to its proposed process for recouping funds from predatory institutions under Borrower Defense.

House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) issued this statement on the passing of Bob Juliano.

House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today announced $600,000 from the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Greater Dwight Development Corporation (GDDC) to expand the Montessori School on Edgewood infant toddler program in New Haven, Connecticut. As chair of the committee that determines federal funding for HHS, DeLauro secured this Community Economic Development (CED) grant that will have a transformative impact on child care in New Haven.

NEW HAVEN – House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) issued this statement on the anti-Semitic, racist graffiti found on a building at Yale University.

House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Peter DeFazio (D-OR-04), House Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern (D-MA-02), and Co-Chair of the Congressional PFAS Task Force Daniel Kildee (D-MI-05) today sent a letter to the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan urging him to comprehensively address polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFAS) in the Agency’s forthcoming multi-year strategy. Specifically, the Members urged the EPA to fully address industrial discharges of these “forever chemicals” into the air and water.