Rosa DeLauro

I believe that paid sick days are a basic question of right and wrong, as Senator Kennedy did.

For all of these reasons and more, Senator Kennedy and I first introduced the Healthy Families Act, 5 years ago.

It was groundbreaking and visionary public policy to meet the needs that people were facing in their lives.

The Chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA and Related Agencies, Representative Rosa DeLauro, also has introduced legislation, H.R. 875, the 'Food Safety Modernization Act of…

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, obviously, was working hard from the appropriations side to make sure that that formula was better in tune with the challenges that, again, face different regions in the country.

I would just say again in the description, yours, the President's, et cetera, when we are talking about children is to focus in on the benefits of insuring all children, not some, and what that benefit will be in terms of the future.

We ought to be reassuring to people, and again my colleague says about the politics and advising on politics for the White House, but I think there has to be a more fulsome description not of specific details, but that no one is talking…

We need to make sure that when the family health manager also works outside the home, she can still perform her important job of keeping her family healthy.

We thank Representative Rosa DeLauro and Senator Ted Kennedy for their leadership on this legislation.

Thank you for having this hearing on an important piece of legislation, the Healthy Families Act, which would guarantee most workers seven days of paid sick leave per year.

Working families need paid leave to help them stay afloat financially when they have a new child, when a wage earner falls critically ill, or when a family member has a serious health condition and needs care.

In a nation that values families, no worker should have to choose between their job and their own or a family member's health.

Paid sick days would offer substantial savings to employers by reducing turnover and minimizing absenteeism.

Together, these policies promote health and reduce health care costs by helping workers access preventive, timely, and lower-cost health services while reducing workplace injuries and the spread of disease.

Expanded access to paid sick days could help the state meet its cost-containment goals.

Workers should not be punished for following guidelines from the nation's health experts, and we all have a stake in ensuring that those who prepare and serve our food, teach our children, care for our elderly, or even ride our public…

I thank the Subcommittee for holding a hearing on the Healthy Families Act introduced in the House by Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro

To that end, at the height of the H1N1 Flu outbreak, my office distributed 55,000 sick days fliers to the San Francisco Unified School District to be sent home with children.

Paid sick leave also decreases turnover and its associated costs, increases employee morale and satisfaction and ultimately enhances profitability and success.

Opponents of a paid sick days measure will claim it's too expensive for businesses. This view is penny-wise but pound-foolish.

If there was ever a time that working families need an extra measure of economic security, this is it.

For families in the lowest quartile of earners, 79 percent lack paid sick time.

Women are not asking, women are demanding, work-life balance.

There is ample evidence that we are headed toward a workforce shortage.

We can figure out a way to move ourselves forward into the 21st century in a way that can work for both employers and employees.