Press Releases

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) delivered the following remarks in support of an amendment to repeal the 2001 Authorization of Use of Military Force at the Appropriations Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2021 Defense bill.

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Appropriations Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2021 Labor-HHS-Education bill.

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Co-Chair of the Long Island Sound Caucus, and the House Appropriations Committee, today approved by voice vote the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Interior-Environment spending bill that included $30.4 million for the Long Island Sound Geographic Program. This record funding is $9.4 million over the FY 2020 enacted level of $21 million.

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, and Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (CNMI), Chair of the Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education and Labor Subcommittee released the following statement on the Trump Administration’s threats to defund public education if schools do not fully reopen.

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, and the House Appropriations Committee, today approved by voice vote an amendment offered by Subcommittee Chairman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02) to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies spending bill that would protect Americans from dangerous products being marketed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Congressman Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), and USMCA Working Group Members today sent a letter to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador calling for a detailed response to reports of labor practices in Mexico that fail to comply with those outlined in the new NAFTA agreement, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), released the following statement after the Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision that employers could exempt contraception coverage from health plans.

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2021 bill.