by | Feb 25, 2025 8:51 pm | Comments (11)
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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.