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New CBO Score Shows Taxpayers Would Save $387 Million
Long Island Sound is $9 billion economic engine
Washington, D.C.— Today, Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Steve Israel (D-NY) Chairs of the Long Island Sound Caucus, announced that the Omnibus Appropriations bill, which passed the House by a vote of 359 to 67, includes $3.9 million in federal funding for the Long Island Sound program and approximately $600,000 through EPA’s National Estuary Program. This is approximately $200,000 more than last year’s funding levels and $1 million more than the President’s Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Request of $2.9 million.
Bipartisan Legislation Will Prevent another Government Shutdown
WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) released the following statement today in support of the legislation before the House of Representatives funding the U.S. government for fiscal year 2014. DeLauro is the senior Democrat on the subcommittee responsible for funding the departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services. A video of DeLauro’s remarks can be viewed here.
WASHINGTON, DC--Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), issued the following statement today on Congressman Jim Moran’s announcement that he will not seek re-election:
“Jim and I started our House careers together in 1991. Before that, we were both Senate staffers: Jim was on the Appropriations Committee and I was chief of staff to Senator Chris Dodd.
WASHINGTON, DC—Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and George Miller (D-CA) released the following statement today on the proposal by Senator Max Baucus and Rep. Dave Camp to grant the Administration outdated “Fast Track” authority.
Roaches, Not Salmonella Outbreaks Shut Down Plant
WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Louise Slaughter (D-NY) released the following comment today on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s decision to order Foster Farms to suspend operations at their Livingston, CA plant. Despite being linked to hundreds of illnesses caused by a drug-resistant strain of Salmonella Heidelberg, it was a roach infestation that has finally provoked USDA to act.
WASHINGTON, DC—In midst of record-breaking cold weather caused by the Polar Vortex, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) is calling on President Obama to restore funding for LIHEAP, the federal program that helps low-income Americans pay their energy bills.
NEW HAVEN, CT—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) and West Haven Mayor Edward M. O’Brien announced today that the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Emergency Watershed Protection Program has awarded a $2.6 million grant to protect homes in the Old Field Creek salt marsh area. The grant was made available as part of efforts to protect and maintain flood plains in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, and to reduce future risk. DeLauro and O’Brien were joined at the announcement by several homeowners who will benefit from the funding
NEW HAVEN, CT—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) joined Stratford Mayor John Harkins, and Ted Lane and Jeff Loureiro of Point Stratford Renewal to unveil the strategy for revitalizing the Stratford Army Engine Plant site. The sale of the site from the Army to Point Stratford Renewal was announced last October 30.
Longest Serving New Haven Alderwoman Centennial Celebration
NEW HAVEN, CT - Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) today honored her mother, Luisa DeLauro, as she celebrated her 100th birthday. Born December 24, 1913, Luisa was the third child born to Cesare and Luisa Canestri. She grew up in the heart of New Haven’s Italian American community and spent most of her childhood in her mother’s pastry shop, Canestri’s. Raised in New Haven’s Wooster Square, she dedicated a lifetime to the neighborhood she called home and the people who lived there.