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WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) is an original co-sponsor of legislation responding to the Supreme Court’s decisions in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood v. Burwell. The Protect Women’s Health from Corporate Interference Act of 2014 would prohibit for-profit employers who maintain group health plans for their employees from using religious beliefs to deny employees coverage of any vital health service required by federal law.

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Louise Slaughter (D-NY) today issued the following statement calling on the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to shut down all Foster Farms poultry processing facilities until a Salmonella outbreak that has sickened over 600 people in 29 states is stopped. Late Thursday night, before the July 4^th holiday weekend, USDA announced Foster Farms had issued a voluntary recall for its chicken products.

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) released the following statement today on the Supreme Court’s decisions in the cases of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corporation v. Burwell. DeLauro is the senior Democrat on the subcommittee responsible for funding the Department of Health and Human Services.

WASHINGTON, DC – For the second consecutive Congress, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) has introduced legislation to help end the preventable medical condition of obstetric fistula. Women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa are disproportionately affected with this result of prolonged, obstructed childbirth. More than two million victims live with the devastating physical and social consequences, with 50,000-100,000 new cases annually.

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) led 60 of her colleagues in urging U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to halt a massive logging sale scheduled to occur in the Tongass National Forest. DeLauro led a similar letter last year.

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WASHINGTON, DC—Amid rising gas prices, Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), David Cicilline (D-RI) and Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) today introduced legislation to curb excessive speculation in the oil markets, a contributor to inflated prices. The Energy Markets Emergency Act would require the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to use their authority to stop excessive speculation in oil futures and swaps markets within two weeks. Speculators now control the majority of oil futures and swaps contracts.

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today introduced the Medicare Advantage Participant Bill of Rights Act. The legislation was inspired by stories DeLauro and Brown heard from their constituents, as well as people across the nation, whose doctors were dropped from their Medicare Advantage plans in the middle of the year.