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September 2, 2021
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today released the following statement after a broad and unprecedented coalition of consumer groups, illness victims, poultry industry leaders, academic scientists, and state regulators wrote to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack to call for a new, science-based regulatory approach to poultry food safety.
September 1, 2021
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued this statement on Texas’ near ban on abortions and the Supreme Court’s failure to prevent this dangerous law from going into effect.
August 31, 2021
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today announced $804,033 in Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) for three fire departments in Connecticut’s 3rd Congressional District. Guilford Fire Department received $332,215 for Technical Rescue Training, East Haven Fire Department received $98,181 for Thermal Imaging Cameras, and West Haven Fire Department received $373,636 for Rapid Intervention Air Packs and Firefighter Breathing Apparatus. The award for West Haven Fire Department is a Regional Award also benefitting the Allingtown Fire District and West Shore Fire District.
August 27, 2021
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued this statement after the Supreme Court issued a ruling blocking the Biden Administration from enforcing the CDC’s temporary moratorium on evictions.
August 26, 2021
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued this statement on the terror attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport.
August 24, 2021
Today, House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) voted to pass H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, to restore critical protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and ensure that every eligible American voter can have their voice heard. Amid the most coordinated state-level effort to restrict the right to vote in generations, H.R. 4 would prevent states and localities with a recent history of voter discrimination from restricting the right to vote by requiring these jurisdictions to obtain federal preclearance before changing their voting laws.
August 24, 2021
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in support of advancing the Build Back Better Act and the bipartisan infrastructure package.
August 18, 2021
New Haven Register
Rosa DeLauro (opinion): We need more gun research, now
Opinion by Chair Rosa DeLauro
August 16, 2021
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued this statement on Afghanistan.
August 16, 2021
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued the following statement on the Biden-Harris Administration’s actions to increase food assistance benefits through the largest increase in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) history.