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NEW HAVEN, CT—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today urged Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Shaun Donovan to finalize two pending food safety rules. The Mechanically Tenderized Beef Products rule and a rule regarding added solutions in meat and poultry products must be finished before the end of this year otherwise they 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 (D-CT) released the following statement today on President Obama’s announcement he will take executive action on immigration. The move will allow an estimated five million people to come out of the shadows and get right with the law without fear of deportation.

“I applaud the President for taking action. Prioritizing who is eligible to stay in our country is the right thing to do. We should be cracking down on felons, not families; convicts, not children.

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) released the following statement today lauding Senate confirmation of Victor Allen Bolden to be United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut. Bolden currently serves as Corporation Counsel for the City of New Haven, a position he has held since 2009.

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) released the following statement today marking the beginning of “End Child Slavery Week.” DeLauro also introduced a resolution today designating November 20 to November 26, 2014 as “End Child Slavery Week.” The purpose of this week is to raise awareness of human rights abuses against children and to acknowledge the global fight against child slavery and child labor.

Heavily Targeted Children and Teens

WASHINGTON, DC— Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) issued the following statement today in response to the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity’s report on sugary drink nutrition and marketing, Sugary Drink FACTS 2014.

WASHINGTON, DC—Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Steve Israel (D-NY), co-chairs of the Congressional Long Island Sound Caucus today applauded the news that $1,313,671 in federal grants has been awarded to improve the health of the Long Island Sound. The 22 grants are going to community groups and local governments for conservation, water quality projects and coastal restoration, among other uses.

HARTFORD, CT - The Connecticut congressional delegation today applauded fourteen grants from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Long Island Sound Futures Fund supporting preservation and restoration of the Long Island Sound in communities across the state. The grants, ranging from $4,546 to teach students in East Lyme about methods to reduce stormwater pollution to $150,000 to the Nature Conservancy to restore six acres of floodplain and wetland along the Eightmile River in Lyme.

NEW HAVEN, CT – Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) released the following statement on the news $1.3 billion in contract modifications has been awarded for 102 helicopters. The 102 consist of 41 Black Hawks, 37 Sea Hawks and 24 Pave Hawks. Primary assembly will take place at Sikorsky headquarters in Stratford.