The lame-duck continuing resolution unveiled just three days before a potential government shutdown strips a provision included in spending bills since 2009 to block automatic raises for Congress, effectively giving senators and House members a raise.
The Biden White House responded on Friday to a plea from House Democrats by proposing new rules for foreign shipping to close the notorious “de minimis” loophole, but took no immediate action.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reportedly gave nearly every Democrat an earmark in exchange for their votes for a $1.2 trillion spending bill.
Key lawmakers on Tuesday announced that they had struck a deal on the framework for funding the government through the end of the current fiscal year, with government funding set to run out on Friday.
Thursday on “MSNBC Prime,” Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) blasted the Biden administration’s response to the nationwide baby formula shortage.
Congressional leaders struck a deal Thursday to fund the government through February, which serves as a victory for Republicans.
President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion coronavirus package into law Thursday, providing a path for an expansion of the welfare state by permanently maintaining socialistic entitlements originating from the legislation, such as the expanded child tax credit, which is now expanded from $2,000 to a maximum of $3,600 per kid for one year.
The $1.9 trillion coronavirus package establishes a guaranteed income for families with children by expanding an existing tax credit, essentially creating a new entitlement similar to those in socialistic countries.
Democrat appropriation committee chairmen hope to revive earmarks, a practice Republicans eliminated over concerns that it would lead to graft.
Reps. Jim Banks (R-IN) and Jason Smith (R-MO) wrote a letter to House Appropriations chair Rosa DeLauro Tuesday, requesting that she advance legislation to remove wasteful spending from the latest coronavirus package.
Rep. Rose DeLauro said the Hyde Amendment is a “discriminatory policy” because many women of color lack the funding to obtain an abortion.
On Tuesday House Democrats will convene a hearing to ignite their extreme abortion agenda, including repeal of the Hyde Amendment.
Democrat U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, an ally of Nancy Pelosi, is facing an aggressive challenge by real estate executive Margaret Streicker (R) in Connecticut’s 3rd district.
House Democrats raised the prospect of President Trump shutting down the government if he loses the presidential election.
A Democrat-led House appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday heard testimony on the Trump administration’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic from former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Thomas Frieden, who avoided jail time last year after pleading guilty in a sex abuse case.
During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) slammed the Republican tax proposal and stated Republicans are “rigging the game against the middle class.” Transcript as Follows: “Hello, I am Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, from the Third District of Connecticut. The
Addressing the shooting in Colorado Springs at a Planned Parenthood last Friday, Connecticut’s Democrat lawmakers said on Monday that verbalizing opposition to Planned Parenthood “can inflame someone who may want to take action.”
There is growing concern and opposition on Capitol Hill that President Obama’s unpopular Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade bill will be voted on during the “lame-duck” session, which will take place once voters have cast their ballots in the November 2016 election.
Congressional Democrats are battling to force the Obama administration to release the actual text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “Obamatrade” trade deal.
Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) argued defunding Planned Parenthood is telling “millions” of Americans “You can just die” in a speech on the House floor on Thursday. DeLauro said that by trying to defund Planned Parenthood, “the majority has declared war on the
“Well part of the leverage is, if I’m in a trade relationship with them, that allows me to raise standards, now they have to start thinking about how quick they’re chopping down their forests and what kinds of standards they need to apply to environmental conservation,” President Obama says.
Senior House Democratic lawmakers may be dropping like flies, the dreaded “six year itch” may be on its way to wreak havoc for the party, and Obamacare may be a dead weight pulling President Obama’s party underwater. But key congressional
Immediately following a press conference by the Connecticut Education Association (CEA), during which the state’s largest teachers’ union said “implementation” of the Common Core standards had been “botched,” Connecticut state House Republicans announced they were able to force a public
Wednesday morning on MSNBC’s “The Daily Rundown,” Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) refused to answer Chuck Todd’s repeated questions about trusting President Barack Obama. Instead DeLauro simply kept repeating her unwillingness to give up Congress’ constitutional authority on trade deals…
On November 1, a cut to benefits will kick in that will affect 47 million food stamp recipients. In 2009, Democrats included a funding increase in Barack Obama’s stimulus law, but that increase ends November 1. Conservatives have taken the
In the release of a final rule regarding healthcare benefits for members of Congress and their staff, the Obama administration’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has indicated that it will get around an amendment that makes it illegal to provide
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) introduced a bill on Monday that, if passed, would give a $2,000 tax credit, over a two-year period, for owners of “assault weapons” who turn their guns in to police. According to DeLauro, the proposed legislation,
Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Paul Ryan has created a video message directed at fellow Catholics, reminding them that religious freedom will be a central issue in the Romney-Ryan administration. The video particularly targets the ObamaCare HHS mandate that requires all employers
On Friday, the Connecticut Bond Commission abruptly delayed a vote on a $300,000 grant to the New Haven People’s Center, a project of Progressive Education and Research Associates. The decision was made, according to Gov. Dannel Malloy (D- Working Families Party), because the project
Not that this should be surprising since Marxists have been behind and involved with in the #OccupyWallSt movement since Day One when the September protests began, but the Neo-Coms in the unionized #OWS movement are now getting more formal advice
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, of Connecticut’s 3rd District, and her husband may be engaging in more than just marriage. According to Human Events, federal campaign records show that, during the last four congressional election cycles, Congresswoman DeLauro’s campaign transferred $1.2 million