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U.S. Representatives Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and Barbara Lee (CA-12) introduced legislation to address diaper need in the United States. The End Diaper Need Act of 2023 would create a $100 million demonstration program for distributing free diapers and diapering products in states, communities, and nonprofits around the nation to help reduce the diaper need in low-income families and underserved communities. The members also introduced a resolution that hails the week of September 18 as National Diaper Need Awareness Week.

U.S. Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) and David G. Valadao (R-CA-22) along with Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced the bipartisan Fresh Produce Procurement Reform Act, legislation that would increase and improve the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) procurement of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reintroduced the Schedules That Work Act. This legislation would help ensure that employees have more certainty about their work schedules and incomes. It addresses unstable, unpredictable, and opaque scheduling practices, like placing workers “on-call” with no guarantee of work hours, scheduling them for “split shifts” of non-consecutive hours, sending working home early without pay when demand is low, and punishing workers who request schedule changes. 

Democrats saved the childcare sector from collapse during the pandemic with vital stabilization funding—which helped 220,000 providers stay afloat and serve as many as 10 million kids—but with funding set to expire September 30, the childcare sector may once again be pushed to the brink, with potentially dire consequences for families and our economy

Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) released a statement in response to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau that shows failure to extend the expanded, monthly Child Tax Credit contributed to the childhood poverty rate increasing by nearly 140% in a single year – the largest increase on record.

Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) released a statement on Yale University President Peter Salovey’s announcement that he will be stepping down as president of the University at the end of the 2023-24 academic year.

Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) released a statement on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) appointment of Jim Jones to serve as the agency’s Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods.

Today, U.S. Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) and Bill Pascrell (D-NJ-09) released a statement in response to the Biden Administration’s executive order on outbound investments that will help safeguard the U.S. economy and national security.