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Marks National Pharmacist Day at Hamden’s Apex Pharmacy

NEW HAVEN, CT—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today marked National Pharmacist Day by getting her flu shot at Hamden’s Apex Pharmacy. While there, she joined with Leslie Balch from the Quinnipiack Valley Health District to urge Connecticut residents to do the same.

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) released the following statement today applauding President Obama’s proposal to provide free community college tuition for responsible students. She will discuss the America’s College Promise proposal and other ways to deal with college affordability next Friday in Connecticut. Details on a location and time will be announced in the following days.

Urges Administration to Finalize Mechanically Tenderized Beef Rule

NEW HAVEN, CT—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today applauded the Obama Administration's final rule regarding added solutions in meat and poultry products. She also urged the Administration to finalize the Mechanically Tenderized Beef Products rule before the end of the year. If that deadline is not met it will be delayed until at least 2018, due to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) requirements on labeling meat and poultry products.

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) released the following statement today applauding the State of Connecticut for releasing over $11 million in Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Relief (CDBG-DR) funding to ten projects in five Third District communities. The funding is part of the $16 billion for the CDBG program included in the Sandy Disaster Relief bill DeLauro championed and Congress passed in January of 2013.

NEW HAVEN, CT—Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, and Representatives Rosa DeLauro today announced that Connecticut will be receiving funding from the Commodity Supplemental Food Program for the first time. The final funding amount for Connecticut is still to be determined, but will likely allow thousands of seniors to access healthy food through the program. The seven states receiving funding authorized under the omnibus funding bill signed by the President earlier this week will receive a total of $2.8 million.

NEW HAVEN, CT—Connecticut Representatives Rosa DeLauro and Elizabeth Esty today urged the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to consider purchasing 250,000 of the Flublok vaccine from Meriden’s Protein Sciences Corporation. Protein Sciences specializes in vaccine development and has also been working on an Ebola vaccine.

NEW HAVEN, CT—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) released the following statement today on a Bloomberg report that the Department of Homeland Security has continued to award lucrative federal contracts to Ingersoll-Rand in violation of a 2002 law that bars them from doing so.

NEW HAVEN, CT—Representatives Rosa DeLauro, Senator Richard Blumenthal, and Representatives Joe Courtney, Jim Himes and Elizabeth Esty today called for increased consumer protections in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. In a letter to Marilyn Tavenner, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), they urged her to require MA plans fix their provider networks before next year’s annual open enrollment period. Doing so would ensure patients will not have to worry about abruptly and unfairly being cut off from the doctors they know and trust.