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Washington, DC – Congresswoman Rosa L.DeLauro (CT-3) issued the following statement in response to the funding levels for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) forFY2012.

Last year, LIHEAP was funded at $4.701billion. This year, the Administration requested $2.570 billion for theprogram, a cut of nearly 50 percent. The initial spending levelsproposed in the House of Representatives included $3.392 billion infunding for this program, and the final level is $3.472 billion. Ofthese funds, Connecticut will receive $79.531 million for FY2012.

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-3) issued the following statement in response to the funding levels for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) for FY2012.

Last year, LIHEAP was funded at $4.701 billion. This year, the Administration requested $2.570 billion for the program, a cut of nearly 50 percent. The initial spending levels proposed in the House of Representatives included $3.392 billion in funding for this program, and the final level is $3.472 billion. Of these funds, Connecticut will receive $79.531 million for FY2012.

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-3) issued the following statement on the end of the military mission in Iraq.

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-3), Ranking Member on the Labor, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, released the following statement in response to the report "Vulnerabilities in FDA's Oversight of State Food Facility Inspections," which she requested from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General. Congresswoman DeLauro requested this report after the 2009 recall of peanut butter contaminated with Salmonella that sickened 529 people in 43 states.

New Haven, CT – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-3) issued the following statement in advance of Saturday's official naming ceremony for the Maurice Rose Armed Forces Reserve Center in Middletown.

New Haven, CT — Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro and Senator Richard Blumenthal praised the award of a $2,855,069 grant to the New Haven Jewish Federation Housing Corporation from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assisted Living Conversion Program.

New Haven, CT – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-3) issued the following statement in advance of Saturday's official naming ceremony for the Maurice Rose Armed Forces Reserve Center in Middletown.

WASHINGTON, DC – With the former head of the now-defunct MF Global set to testify on Capitol Hill today, Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Leonard Boswell (D-Iowa) are introducing legislation to fully fund the Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC) so it can regulate the risky financial transactions that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, the recent collapse of MF Global and the speculation-driven rise in energy prices.