112th Congress
Paycheck Fairness Act strengthens federal pay equity laws
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In honor of Equal Pay Day, U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) today introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act to strengthen federal pay equity laws and ensure equal pay for equal work. Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn.) introduced the bill in the House of Representatives. Equal Pay Day is the day that represents how far into 2011 women have to work to earn what men earned in 2010.
April 12 is national Equal Pay Day
New Haven, CT— Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-3) was joined by Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman, Teresa Younger, Executive Director of the CT Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, and representatives from women’s organizations from across Connecticut today as they issued a call for action on pay equity.
New Haven, CT— Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) released the following statement in response to today's announcement that the U.S. Department of Transportation released to the State of Connecticut $40 million in funds allocated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for the New Haven-Hartford-Springfield line.
Joined by college students and presidents to stand up against education budget cuts
Washington, DC— Representatives Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), Ranking Member on the Labor, Education, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, and George Miller (CA-7), Ranking Member on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, spoke out against the proposed Republican cuts to education funding, and specifically Pell Grants.
H.R. 910 will weaken this law, eliminating EPA's tools to address pollution
Washington, DC— Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), Ranking Member on the Labor, Education, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, issued the following statement today in response to the passage of H.R. 910, which will limit the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to protect the American public from carbon pollution.
Washington, DC— Congresswoman Rosa L.DeLauro (CT-3), Ranking Member on the Labor, Education, Health, andHuman Services Appropriations Subcommittee, made the following remarkson the Floor of the United States House of Representatives today.
As Prepared for Delivery
Governing is about choices. Everyone inthis body agrees that we need to get our fiscal house in order, bringdown the deficit and cut programs that do not work. The question beforeus is how we choose to get there.
Washington, DC— Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), Ranking Member on the Labor, Education, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, released the following statement today in response to the Department of Labor's announcement that the economy added 216,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 8.8 percent in March.
Washington, DC— Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) celebrated a Department of Education School Improvement Grants (SIG) award of $4.23 million to the state of Connecticut to help improve persistently low achieving schools.
Washington, DC— Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) announced two Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grants, totaling $123,914, for the towns of Derby and New Haven today. Part of the Housing Choice Voucher- Family Self Sufficiency Program, these funds will be used to support the development of local strategies to help families increase their income potential and become more self-sufficient.
The individual grants awarded are:
Derby: $54,914
New Haven: $69,000
14,900% proposed increase in cost for drug to help prevent premature births
Washington, DC— Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), Ranking Member on the Labor, Education, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, sent a letter to Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, today expressing her concern over the cost of KV Pharmaceutical’s new drug Makena and the need to ensure balance in public-private research partnerships.