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DeLauro, with Senate chief sponsor Michael Bennet: "We need the Child Tax Credit now."
WASHINGTON — As part of their coronavirus stimulus package, President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats increased tax credits for working families with and without children.
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by | Apr 2, 2025 9:23 pm | Comments (16)
One of DeLauro's latest Bluesky videos.
WASHINGTON — Rarely does a day go by without Rep. Rosa DeLauro calling out the Trump administration.
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by | Mar 26, 2025 6:23 pm | Comments (12)
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Journalists who don't have seats jam into the aisle in the White House briefing room Wednesday.
WASHINGTON — For decades, a reporter for The Associated Press would have first dibs to question the White House press secretary during the daily news briefing.
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by | Mar 12, 2025 8:48 pm | Comments (13)
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DeLauro (center) in her Capitol office in February, flanked by fellow Appropriations Committee Democrats Mike Quigley of Illinois, Betty McCollum of Minnesota, Lois Frankel of Florida and Ed Case of Hawaii.
WASHINGTON —- A day after the U.S. House voted along party lines to keep the federal government open past Friday, Rep. Rosa DeLauro continued to work the phones Wednesday in a final effort to block the funding bill.
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by | Mar 4, 2025 6:00 pm | Comments (7)
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Miller: “Public schools are not only the hearts of our communities, they are the foundation of our democracies."
WASHINGTON — Meet Julia Miller.
She’s a resident of New Haven, a civics teacher at Metropolitan Business Academy in New Haven, and Connecticut’s 2025 teacher of the year.
On Tuesday, she’s also a symbol of opposition to President Donald Trump’s efforts to slash federal education funding and abolish the U.S. Department of Education. She is a guest of U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro at Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress.
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Linda McMahon at Feb. 14 confirmation hearing.
WASHINGTON — Connecticut businesswoman Linda McMahon was confirmed along party lines Monday as the 13th U.S. secretary of education even as she said she would “wholeheartedly” support President Donald Trump’s efforts to shut down the cabinet agency.
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DeLauro (center): “Times change. Members change. The environment changes. And you can pass laws you never thought you could.”
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro on Tuesday launched a new effort to pass legislation requiring that guns be locked up in homes with kids.
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by | Feb 10, 2025 4:35 pm | Comments (14)
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DeLauro takes on another leadership role.
(Washington) Rep. Rosa DeLauro has been in the forefront of Democratic efforts to push back against President Donald Trump, and on Monday she got a new title to reinforce her role.
The top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee — the panel that writes the spending bills each year to fund the federal government — will be one of three co-chairs of the new “Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group.”
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by | Feb 5, 2025 8:36 pm | Comments (30)
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DeLauro (center) in her Capitol office, flanked by fellow Appropriations Committee Democrats Mike Quigley of Illinois, Betty McCollum of Minnesota, Lois Frankel of Florida and Ed Case of Hawaii.
(Washington) Rep. Rosa DeLauro, accompanied by other Democratic members of the House Appropriations Committee, blasted President Donald Trump and his ally, Elon Musk, on Wednesday for taking an ax to the federal agency that provides food, vaccines, drinkable water, health care, and other humanitarian assistance to countries around the world.
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by | Jan 29, 2025 8:06 pm | Comments (6)
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DeLauro: “This was a battle of what’s going to be a long war.”
(Washington) As the Trump administration pushed forward and then pulled back on a federal funding freeze this week, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro emerged as a leader of the House Democratic opposition to the president’s efforts to pause most federal spending.