112th Congress

Tours Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

NEW HAVEN, CT—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) today received a status briefing on the emerald ash borer beetle and toured the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES). DeLauro was accompanied by CAES Director Louis Magnarelli and Connecticut’s State Entomologist, Dr. Kirby Stafford.

Meets with Mayor Mezzo, Business Leaders, Homeowners Who Were Affected

NAUGATUCK, CT—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) received an update on cleanup efforts today and visited with business and home owners who suffered damage in Wednesday’s storm. DeLauro has been in touch with Mayor Mezzo, who accompanied her today, and Governor Malloy since the storm. DeLauro and Mezzo first met at Naugatuck City Hall and then toured local businesses that were flooded when nearly five inches of rain fell in about an hour.

Will Be Used for Community Policing at University of New Haven, Yale

Republican Plan Would Raise Taxes on Military Families

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today denounced the Republican tax plan that would raise taxes on middle-class military families while cutting taxes for millionaires. Their plan, passed yesterday by the House of Representatives, would severely curtail or end vitally important tax cuts for working and middle class families, including slashing the Child Tax Credit by an average of nearly $854 for nearly nine million families, pushing two million children into poverty.

WASHINGTON, DC—Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro released the following statement tonight on the flooding in Naugatuck:

GOP Plan Would Raise Taxes on 25 Million People, Cut Taxes for Wealthiest 2%

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today voiced her support for continuing middle class tax cuts and her opposition to Republican legislation that would extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, while raising taxes on working low income and middle class families.

Calls on Republican Leadership to Repeal the Obligation

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) released the following statement today on the United States Postal Service (USPS)’s default of a $5.5 billion payment for retiree health benefits. The payment is required under a 2006 reform bill and is a major cause of the Postal Service’s precarious financial situation.

Estimated 637,900 Connecticut Women Will Benefit from Provision

WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today applauded the beginning of a new phase under the Affordable Care Act. Starting today most health care plans will be required with their next renewal to provide free coverage of key women’s preventive services, such as domestic violence counseling and cancer screening.