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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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today Reps. Henry A. Waxman, Frank Pallone, Jr., Rosa L. DeLauro, Carolyn B. Maloney, and Charles W. Dent wrote to eighteen universities urging them to consider ending practices that could endanger their students’ health by allowing them to use university debit cards to pay at indoor tanning salons.
NEW HAVEN, CT—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) released the following statement today on the charges against 14 former owners and employees of the New England Compounding Pharmacy. The now-closed pharmacy was associated with over 750 illnesses and over 60 deaths linked to fungal meningitis or fungal arthritis.
NEW HAVEN, CT—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) released the following statement today on the release of American Alan Gross from a Cuban prison.
Affordable Care Act Funding Will Improve Accessibility and Affordability
(HARTFORD, CT) –Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman, Governor Dannel P. Malloy, and the state’s Congressional delegation applauded the announcement today by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarding Connecticut $45 million to test health care payment and delivery models. This funding builds upon the State Innovation Model (SIM) design grant that Connecticut received in March 2013 to develop a State Healthcare Innovation Plan, which was completed in December 2013.
WASHINGTON, DC--Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chellie Pingree (D-ME) and Niki Tsongas (D-MA), joined by 43 other members of Congress, today called on President Obama to ensure Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) claims caused by Military Sexual Trauma (MST) are treated equally to PTSD claims coming from other sources. A rulemaking petition was submitted to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in June 2013 that would establish such parity, but it was denied by then-Secretary Eric Shinseki.
Provision Would Prevent Schools, USDA from Buying Poultry Processed In China for Nutrition Programs
WASHINGTON, DC--An amendment introduced by Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro and cosponsored by Chellie Pingree that would ban the purchase of chicken raised in the US and processed in China for school lunches is heading to the President’s desk for signature. The bill passed the House of Representatives last Thursday and the Senate late Saturday night.