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New Haven, CT – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) announced a five year $4.5 million federal grant for the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven to continue its work addressing racial and ethnic disparities in health care. New Haven Healthy Start, which received its first federal grant in 1997 and is now in its fourth round of federal funding from the Department of Health and Human Services, has focused on providing a continuum of improvements to a fragmented maternal and child healthcare system to reduce the infant mortality and morbidity rate in the City.

Funding Made Available Through the Recovery Act

New Haven, CT – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) announced that as a result of $200 million included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the National Health Services Corps is able to accept additional applications for its scholarship and loan repayment program, which provides loan repayments of up to $50,000 for clinicians who work in health centers, rural health clinics, and other health care facilities that care for the uninsured and underserved people.

New Haven, CT – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (Conn. -3) announced nearly $20 million for the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for clean water efforts throughout the state, which includes $19.5 million for the state's Drinking Water State Revolving fund program and $485,000 for Water Quality Management Planning.

Hartford, CT – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (Conn. - 3), an honorary chair for this year's Susan G. Komen Connecticut Race for the Cure, helped to help kick-off the annual event that supports breast health education, screening, treatment and research.

Washington, D.C. – As people in Connecticut, Washington, D.C. and other cities gather for the Global Race for the Cure, a number of high-profile organizations reiterated their strong support for Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro's (CT-3) bipartisan Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act (H.R. 1691) and urged its passage. The legislation would allow a woman and her doctor to decide whether she should recuperate from a mastectomy or lumpectomy for at least 48 hours in the hospital or whether she has enough support to get quality care at home.

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (Conn. -3) issued the following statement on the on the announcement by the Connecticut Department of Public Health of the first state death linked to the H1N1 influenza outbreak.

"I want to express my heartfelt condolences to family and friends of the New Haven County resident whose death was linked to the H1N1 influenza outbreak – my thoughts and prayers are with you.

Woodbury will receive $888,270 in recovery funding to restore 65 acres of floodplain to its natural state through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This is part of the USDA's effort to restore floodplains to ensure they work properly while helping maintain jobs in rural America.

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) issued the following statement commending the Connecticut General Assembly for approving legislation to require major chain restaurants to publish the number of calories for each food item on their printed menus and menu boards.

DeLauro has championed similar legislation at the federal level, the Menu Education and Labeling (MEAL) Act , to require chain restaurants with 20 or more business locations to provide consumers with information on calories, sodium, saturated and trans fat, and carbohydrates.