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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.

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) responded today to new Consumer Reports guidelines on how much rice is safe for consumption. This builds on a previous report revealing alarmingly high levels of arsenic in rice and rice-based products, such as cereal.

NEW HAVEN, CT—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) and New Haven Mayor Toni N. Harp today hosted the New Haven kick off of Access Health CT (AHCT)’s second year. The 2014-2015 open enrollment period for all health care marketplaces runs through February 15. Access Health CT had one of the most successful inaugural years of any marketplace in the country, with the state’s uninsured rate cut nearly in half, from 7.9 percent to 4.0 percent. Over 280,000 people have enrolled in a health insurance plan or Medicaid through Access Health CT.

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Use among High Schoolers Has Climbed Steadily For Past Three Years

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) released the following statement today on a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showing that e-tobacco use among high school students has climbed steadily for the past three years. In 2011, 1.5 percent of that population reported using e-cigarettes in the last 30 days; today that number is 4.5 percent.

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) released the following statement today on a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report detailing broken labor standards in Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). DeLauro is the senior Democrat on the subcommittee responsible for funding the Department of Labor (DOL).

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) today introduced the Ambassador Ebenezer D. Bassett Commemorative Stamp Act, which calls for the creation of a stamp to honor Ebenezer D. Bassett, the nation’s first African American diplomat and native son of Derby, Connecticut. If the bill were to become law the Postmaster General would be required to issue a stamp honoring Bassett.