Rosa DeLauro: “It is one of the most important--today's hearing is one of the most important things that this subcommittee does.”

What is shameful is when you know you have a model that works, that’s tried and true, that has results,” DeLauro said, “to not say yes to increasing the resources and the investments in this is morally irresponsible.

The Senate bill text is a clear improvement over the House Republican continuing resolution.

From the outset, I think there was a sense that, finally, we were looking at standing up a program that was specific to specialty crop farmers. And that’s incredible, because … nothing trickles down for them, and so this was really one of…

The start of construction today symbolizes the continued and coordinated effort at the federal, state, and local levels for more reliable and safer transportation in Connecticut,” Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro said. “This historic project…