112th Congress

Visits Gateway Community College to discuss impact of budget cuts on education

New Haven, CT – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-3) held a roundtable discussion at Gateway Community College in New Haven today with school president Dr. Dorsey Kendrick and a group of students who have returned to school to further their education and better their chances of finding a job.

Helped Orange resident recover over $34,000 in pension benefits

New Haven, CT – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-3) met with George Posener, a 99-year-old who served during World War II at his home in Orange, Connecticut today. Posener contacted Congresswoman DeLauro’s office for assistance in recovering pension benefits he had been owed for more than 30 years. Congresswoman DeLauro was able to help, and Posener received his full amount of pensions benefits owed, totaling over $34,000.

Reserve Could Temper $100 Oil, Rising Gas Prices

WASHINGTON (February 24, 2011) – When the first Gulf War drove oil prices skyward in 1991, deploying oil from America's strategic reserve brought them back down by 33 percent. When President Clinton used the oil bank in 2000, prices dropped by 19 percent. And following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, releasing oil reduced prices by 9 percent.

New Haven, CT— Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), Ranking Member on the Labor, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, released the following statement today in response to the Department of Defense's announcement that the KC-X tanker contract has been awarded to Boeing.

Washington, DC –Representatives Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) and Frank Wolf (VA-10) introduced a bipartisan resolution today calling for the House of Representatives to prohibit the Presidential helicopter from being built by a Chinese state-controlled company.

Republican budget proposals eliminate funding for critical health care services

Washington, DC – Representatives Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), Ranking Member on the Labor, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, and Nita Lowey (NY-18), a longtime member of the subcommittee, spoke on the floor of the United States House of Representatives tonight in support of Title X during the debate of the Labor, Health and Human Services title of the Republican majority’s proposed Continuing Resolution.

Washington, DC – Representatives Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), Ranking Member of the Labor, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, and Maurice Hinchey (NY-22) introduced the Extended Tax Relief for All Act today.

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), Ranking Member on the Labor, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, gave the following remarks of the floor of the United States House of Representatives during the debate on the Republican majority’s proposed Continuing Resolution.

Congresswoman DeLauro spoke against the amendment offered by Representative Mike Pence (IN-6), which would strip all funding from Planned Parenthood of America, leading a group of more than a dozen Democratic men and women in defense of this vital organization.