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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.

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Feb 5, 2019

I have been pleased at really the National Child Traumatic Stress Network is really fantastic.

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Feb 5, 2019

So without that pressure on servicers to take everything is something to take serious and do a deep dive, then there is going to be a lot of noncompliance and consumer protection issues that affect large groups of people that either go…

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Feb 5, 2019

I think you need to let Congresswoman Frankel know about the issue of forbearance and moving borrowers into forbearance and what that means.

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Feb 5, 2019

Are we still separating children and rendering them unaccompanied children, and adding to the system?

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Feb 5, 2019

Child protection must be a priority in the enforcement of our immigration laws.

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Feb 5, 2019

We urge Congress and it is vital that Congress play its role to ensure that the Government of the United States lives up to its legal and moral obligations to the children in its care.

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Feb 5, 2019

The harmful practice of detaining children in huge unlicensed facilities could be ended if ORR would simply abide by the Flores agreement and release children to sponsors without unnecessary delay.

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Feb 5, 2019

How do we deal with unscrupulous insurance companies that try to fool people into buying junk health plans?

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Feb 5, 2019

With your responsibility safeguards that are built into the ACA system for enrollment in the marketplace. What kind of safeguards are there?

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Feb 5, 2019

We were able to put in language that prohibits ICE from using information provided by the Office of Refugee Resettlement

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Feb 5, 2019

Turning suffering children and overwhelmed caseworkers into pawns in the administration's immigration deterrence policy.

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Feb 5, 2019

Senior officials in this administration have twisted and perverted the mission of the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Feb 5, 2019

The ACA was passed to improve people lives and marketing is necessary for it to succeed.

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Feb 5, 2019

I have got a bill called the Healthy Moms Act, which is--allows women who find themselves pregnant to be able to enroll at that time into an insurance plan, and that is very important, particularly in communities of color like…

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Feb 5, 2019

I also think that young healthy people can get cancer any moment and that changes the conditions of their existence.

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Feb 5, 2019

I fundamentally believe that access to affordable and comprehensive health care is a right, not a privilege.

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Feb 5, 2019

In my mind, we have to find a way that allows more choice and more options, not less choice and less options.

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Feb 5, 2019

But those are the kids who are now waiting to get care.

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Feb 5, 2019

I have pre-existing conditions in my family. I have people that I serve. My goal when I think about this is how do I get them access to care that is worth the paper it is written on.

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Feb 5, 2019

The administration's short-term plans rule stands up a parallel health insurance market that isn't subject to those protections.

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Feb 5, 2019

With legislative repeal off the table for now, the administration is trying to achieve a version of repeal through the courts.

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Feb 5, 2019

I hope, on a bipartisan basis in the appropriate venues, we do deliver on the goal of making health care more affordable for every American.

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Feb 5, 2019

Because of the Affordable Care Act more than 20 million people gained health coverage, many for the first time in their lives.

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Feb 5, 2019

I mean, from what I know, from what I have read, in Arkansas people have--17,000 people have actually lost their health insurance because of the work requirements.

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Feb 5, 2019

But we also manage to find common ground and I believe it is because we agree on this one principle--it is how central the work that we do in this committee can be for people and the difference we can make in their lives and that includes…

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