Press Releases
May 30, 2019
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today released the following statement after the Trump Administration sent Congress a draft statement of administrative action for the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
May 30, 2019
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today released the following statement regarding Canada’s consideration of implementing language for the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
May 29, 2019
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today released the following statement after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s remarks this morning.
May 24, 2019
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), Chair of the Education and Labor Committee, today released the following statement on the United States Department of Labor’s (DOL) and United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) decision to stop operating several Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers (CCC).
Issues:Jobs and the Economy
May 24, 2019
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee that funds the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), today released the following statement upon news reports that a 10-year-old unaccompanied child died nearly eight months ago while in the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR) custody.
May 21, 2019
Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) introduced Ethan’s Law—safe gun storage legislation in memory of Ethan Song—in the House of Representatives.
Issues:Gun Violence
May 17, 2019
U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT), and U.S. Representatives John Larson (CT-1), Joe Courtney (CT-2), Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), Jim Himes (CT-4), and Jahana Hayes (CT-5) today released the names of the Connecticut men and women who have accepted offers of appointment to one of the four United States service academies.
May 15, 2019
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today released the following statement after the Trump Administration announced its intention to change guidelines related to poverty thresholds, which would affect who is eligible for programs like Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and free and reduced school lunch.
May 14, 2019
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs today wrote a letter to Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Alexander Acosta about the Wage and Hour Division’s (WHD) controversial “opinion letter” on contingent work.
May 10, 2019
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed more than $17 billion in disaster relief funding for communities throughout the country affected by floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and other natural disasters.
