Rosa DeLauro

How does your budget address the larger childcare crisis, specifically the staffing shortages and the underpaid workforce in the childcare sector?

We increased the Childcare Development and Block Grant funding by $2,700,000,000 while I was chair.

Maybe Congress ought to take a look at providing you with that authority and with the resources, as well.

Let me be clear. Much more funding is necessary to address the childcare crisis in this country.

I encourage my colleagues to vote for it, as I will.

Childcare is essential and it is in crisis.

We are grateful to Representative DeLauro for reintroducing her bill this Congress, H.R. 660, Ethan's Law...

A comprehensive immigration policy will get us to where we need to be.

Thank you for your January 19, 2023, letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Our United States Coast Guard would not be adequately resourced at a time when securing the Arctic and the Indo-Pacific is more important than ever, given the aggression of Russia and the People's Republic of China.

I would work with you to help get that information out and to talk through how we may be able to really encourage people to say we can't go down this road.

I think sometimes it is often easy to say we are going to cut 22 percent.

Our transportation system is at a turning point.

What the cuts mean for American families. So we are talking roughly, and it could be more, is a 22 percent cut.

We need to bring that back.

So we defund the police. Go ahead.

There was never ending connection made in the past about what contributes to the deficit in terms of $1.7 trillion and a tax cut to the richest one-tenth of 1 percent of the people in this country and to the biggest corporations who pay no…

I think it is incumbent on us, both sides of the aisle, for us to take a look at what that means.

What I am particularly concerned about is what the cuts mean for American families.

Congress has a duty to ensure that the United States can pay its bills on time, and the full faith and credit of the United States must not be used as a bargaining chip.

According to analysis by Moody's Analytics, government spending reductions would cut essential government services that tend to go to lower-income households.

Congress must reject House Republicans' hostage tactics and vote to raise the debt ceiling cleanly--just as Republicans did three times for President Trump.

Even approaching a default could cause an increase in borrowing costs and other financial stress, while an actual default would spark a financial crisis and global downturn of unknown but substantial severity.

Congress must reject House Republicans' hostage tactics and vote to raise the debt ceiling cleanly--just as Republicans did three times for President Trump.

Congress has a duty to ensure that the United States can pay its bills on time, and the full faith and credit of the United States must not be used as a bargaining chip.