Press Releases
June 18, 2020
Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) released the following statement after the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration cannot proceed with their plan to end the DACA program that protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants, known as Dreamers.
June 17, 2020
U.S. Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), and Katie Porter (D-CA-45) today wrote to U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar demanding answers to HHS and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) providing at least $1.5 billion interest-free loans to health care companies owned by multi-billion dollar Wall Street private equity firms while community hospitals increasingly falter under enormous losses fighting COVID-19.
Issues:Health Care
June 15, 2020
NEW HAVEN, CT — Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), released the following statement after the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that federal anti-discrimination laws protect gay and transgender workers.
June 9, 2020
Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), released the following statement after consponsoring the Justice in Policing Act of 2020 and joining Congressional leaders in moment of silence to honor the lives of those lost to acts of police brutality.
June 4, 2020
WASHINGTON, DC — Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, today held a critical hearing with the Subcommittee’s Democrats and Republicans on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the CDC, appeared before the Subcommittee.
June 4, 2020
Chairwoman DeLauro Opening Remarks for House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Hearing on The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Response to the
COVID-19 Pandemic
June 3, 2020
Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) released the following statement in response to Minnesota prosecutors adding a second-degree murder charge against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, and charging three more former officers with aiding and abetting murder in the death of George Floyd:
June 1, 2020
Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) released the following statement in response to civil protests in Connecticut and across the nation over the weekend, following the killing of George Floyd:
May 29, 2020
Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) released the following statement in response to former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killing Minneapolis resident George Floyd, as well as the subsequent civil unrest.
May 27, 2020
Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), Chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, introduced new legislation, the Child Care is Essential Act, to create a $50 billion Child Care Stabilization Fund within the existing Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) program.