Press Releases
June 22, 2020
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Chair of the Energy and Commerce Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee, Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee; Congressman Francis Rooney (R-FL); Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the House Appropriations Labor-HHS Subcommittee; and Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chair of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee introduced two pieces of bipartisan legislation to protect patients from being price-gouged on COVID-19 treatments and vaccines developed with taxpayer dollars and to strengthen oversight of federal funds invested in COVID-19 research and development.
Issues:Health Care
June 18, 2020
Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) released the following statement after the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Robert Wilkie responded to her letter questioning if veterans were being prescribed hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19.
Issues:Veterans
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: