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House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) released the following statement on the settlement reached between the families of five adults and four children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and gun manufacturer Remington Arms.

United States Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) today introduced the Schedules That Work Act in the House and the Senate. This legislation would help ensure that employees have more certainty about their work schedules and income, an issue that has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It addresses unstable, unpredictable, and rigid scheduling practices like placing workers “on-call” with no guarantee of work hours, scheduling them for “split shifts” of non-consecutive hours, sending workers home early without pay when demand is low, and punishing workers who request schedule changes.

House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) released the following statement on a provision included in her bill, the Further Additional Extending Government Funding Act, that will prevent funding shortfalls in the Columbia class submarine program.

House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) today secured trade, education, and public health provisions in the America COMPETES Act of 2022 that passed the house this morning.  

House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) today celebrated the inclusion of a provision in the America COMPETES Act to give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandatory recall authority over drug products.

Today, Representatives Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Senators Chris Coons (D-DE), Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and national leaders in civic education applauded the inclusion of critical provisions to sustain the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation and the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation in the America COMPETES Act. Language to support these congressionally chartered programs was originally included in DeLauro’s bipartisan Civics Secures Democracy Act.

Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) and Nancy Mace (R-SC-01) today secured their bipartisan amendment to the America COMPETES Act that would ban the factory farming of mink.

House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) released the following statement regarding the United States military raid resulting in the death of the leader of ISIS.