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Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) responded to reporting from Connecticut Insider which details how dozens of migrant children in Connecticut, some as young as five, were detained by federal agencies and kept separate from their families for hundreds of days:

WATCH: DeLauro Speaks on Captain Paul Bucha

WASHINGTON —Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, and Congressman Jim Himes (CT-04), Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee, issued the following statements on House passage of H.R. 4647, the Captain Paul W. ‘Bud’ Bucha VA Medical Center Act of 2025:

WASHINGTON—Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement regarding Hamas’ announcement that it would dissolve its governing arms in Gaza in preparation to hand over governance to the committee of Palestinian leaders selected under the current 20-point peace plan: 

WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, responded to President Trump’s assertion that the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) – the deal his administration struck with Iran to end the ongoing war – was over.

WASHINGTON – As United States Trade Representative Greer and the Mexican and Canadian trade ministers meet July 1 for the mandatory six-year review of the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and the presidents of United Auto Workers, Steelworkers, Machinists, and Carpenters unions urge the three countries not to extend the pact as-is, but rather to commit to making significant and necessary improvements so that USMCA benefits working people in North America. 

WASHINGTON —Today, US Representative Rosa DeLauro issued the following statement following the Supreme Court’s narrow decision striking down President Trump’s executive order that sought to limit birthright citizenship:

“Birthright citizenship is crystal clear in the Constitution. The Trump Administration knew that when they brought this case, but they did it because they wanted to see just how far they could take their extreme anti-immigration agenda.  

“[It] is our shared responsibility to build an economy rooted in dignity, fairness, solidarity, and the common good…”

Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) led 54 Catholic House Democrats in a statement of principles outlining their shared values as Catholic Members of Congress and how that informs their work in the House of Representatives, specifically on the issue of affordability and helping Americans through the current cost of living crisis.

WASHINGTON —Today, US Representative Rosa DeLauro, Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, released the following statement regarding language she secured in the committee report of the 2027 Defense Appropriations Bill which would require a report from the Department of Defense within 30 days regarding US support for the Gaza 20-point peace plan, as well as disclosing whether US weapons or resources are being used in contravention of the ceasefire: