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Today, U.S. Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) and Jim Banks (R-IN-03) introduced the bipartisan SHIELD Act. This legislation would establish an Office of Economic and Security Preparedness and Resilience to set priorities to ensure resilient United States supply chains and robust domestic production in sectors vital to national security. It would help eliminate supply chain dependency on China and is inspired by a recommendation from the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission’s 2022 Annual Report to Congress.

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) released a statement on the passing of United Steel Workers (USW) International President Tom Conway.

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.