Media

MILFORD, CT--Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) joined with Milford Mayor Ben Blake and CT Department of Veterans' Affairs Commissioner Linda Schwartz today to announce that a new veterans' Office of Advocacy and Assistance would be opening in the Parsons Government Building in Milford.

WASHINGTON--Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Ranking Member on the Labor, Education, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, issued the following statement praising the U.S. Department of Agriculture's implementation of expanded testing for six additional strains of E. coli.

Washington, DC—The House Majority today dug in and continued to deny the financial pressures facing American women, refusing to even debate the Paycheck Fairness Act on the floor. The Senate will take up the bill on Tuesday and President Obama has committed to signing the legislation should it come to his desk.

Washington, DC—The Connecticut Congressional Delegation responded today to the joint Federal Energy Regulatory Commission/North America Electric Reliability Corporation report into the causes and unacceptable response of Connecticut Light & Power and its parent company, Northeast Utilities, to last October's snowstorm that left more than two million households without power, including over

Washington, DC— Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) made the following opening statement at a Steering and Policy Committee Hearing on equal pay this afternoon. Members heard from women who have real-life experience with gender-based pay discrimination and scholar and author Barbara Ehrenreich. The Senate will vote Tuesday on the Paycheck Fairness Act, of which DeLauro is the original author.

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today hosted Education Secretary Arne Duncan in New Haven for a roundtable discussion on how to elevate the teaching profession. Among the participants were New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, New Haven Schools Superintendant Reginald Mayo and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten.

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and Senator Richard Blumenthal today announced a total of $600,000 in grants from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for brownfield cleanup and assessment in central Connecticut.