Rosa DeLauro
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Rosa Luisa DeLauro is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 3rd congressional district since 1991. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been a prominent advocate for various issues, including healthcare, education, and women's rights. Throughout her tenure, DeLauro has focused on policies aimed at supporting lower-income households and has been vocal about the impacts of government spending reductions on essential services.
Thank you both very much for very powerful testimony and thank you for your dedication, your commitment, and compassion in dealing with this very serious issue.
Homestead is not a home. It's an industrial line for the processing of mass numbers of children.
That has been one of the most serious and onerous policies emanating from that MOA that has brought us to the brink of something that has been, yes, a crisis, a humanitarian crisis.
However, that is not the law of the United States, and that is not within the purview of HHS to change.
I have no problem calling into question policies of the prior administration and that's why in this case, we are looking at some more restrictions around the process that has created a situation where we were trying to deal with increased…
We are--using children as bait for immigration enforcement. It is alarming and cruel. And under no circumstances is it justified.
I believe that we ought to regulate dietary supplements. Some of the claims are truly outrageous.
The bureaucratic snafu around--you know, I understand two weeks in the shortest particular time. Why then would it--why would it be taking so long in some of these instances?
The bipartisan Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, or TCA, gave FDA the authority to regulate new tobacco products before they enter the market, and that includes e-cigarettes.
We also have to make sure that we don't cut corners in terms of devices so that we put people at risk.
In the Obama administration, the turnover was 35 days. It was 90 days last year.
Either they come forward and they free their child from detention and they risk being deported or they stay back and they let their children languish in detention.
You cannot have the whole experience for people or denigrate people who, for one reason or another, whether they were or now or in the past coming for economic reasons, they did.
You can't tell me that thousands and thousands of children are better off in a facility... than being with their own parent.
The Federal Government, and in particular the Department of Health and Human Services, should not in any way use vulnerable children as bait.
I think it is fair to say that the shared goal of my Democratic colleagues on health care is looking at the way in which we achieve universal health coverage in the U.S.
Doesn't it make more sense to have something that is uniform and that it is directed centrally?
Every American has the right to live a healthy life, and that requires our government to ensure every person has access to clean water.
I encourage you to support the creation of a national infrastructure development bank to help supplement gaps in investment.
We need to enforce the Gainful Employment rule, we need to enforce the Borrower's Defense rule.





