Rosa DeLauro
Rosa DeLauro
Rosa Luisa DeLaurois the U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 3rd congressional district, serving since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is based in New Haven, and includes most of that city's suburbs. She is currently the dean of the Connecticut congressional delegation...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 March 1943
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Last week, the president suggested his tax cut will solve energy crisis. That is a bizarre and disconnected idea.
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It is simply wrong for the Department of Homeland Security to award an expatriate with the largest corporate contract to date.
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new and creative uses for long stretches of land like this and like the Farmington Canal.
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This bill puts the interests of gun companies ahead of victims of violent crimes that deserve their day in court,
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They utilized this two-week period of time to do precisely what I and others said that they would do -- to try to create fear in this country and to try to bring pressure on members on Congress.
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This is what the federal government ought to be doing, ... This is what government is about.
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A woman in the United States has a 1-in-7 chance of developing breast cancer. It is the second leading cause of cancer deaths for women in America.
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Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world.
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The State Energy Program, it provides grants to States and directs funding to State energy offices. The States use these grants to address their energy priorities, program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies.
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The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back.
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The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research.
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The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry
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