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Latest Public Option Concession Comes Into Focus

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rosa DeLauro, Public Option Concession, Public Option Compromise, National Exchanges, Senate Bill, House Bill, State Exchanges, Public Option, Politics News

With several prominent House Democrats acknowledging that they will likely have to give up a public option for insurance coverage in health care refor...

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Sam Stein

Rosa DeLauro, Key Pro-Choice Dem, Makes Case For Senate Abortion Language

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate House Abortion, Rosa Abortion, Rosa DeLauro, Delauro Abortion, Health Care Reform, Senate Abortion Language, Abortion Language Health Care, Politics News

A key pro-choice House Democrat, working on health care in Congress, hinted on Monday that said she might be willing to support the Senate's abortion ...

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USDA Allows Meat In Schools that Doesn't Meet Fast Food Chains' Standards

Dave Murphy | Posted 12.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: National School Lunch Program, Salmonella, Usda, Jack in the Box, Bill Marler, Food Safety, Rosa DeLauro, McDonald's, Obama, E. Coli, School Lunch, Tom Vilsack, Politics News
Dave Murphy

How is it that the U.S. can put a man on the moon, but can't seem to feed its children school lunches that are no healthier than the food served at McDonald's or Jack in the Box?

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Jeff Muskus

Business Groups Oppose Emergency H1N1 Paid Sick Leave

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rosa DeLauro, Chris Dodd, George Miller, Swine Flu, H1n1, Politics News

Public health officials say the H1N1 flu pandemic is exacerbated by employees going into work sick because they don't get paid time off. But a represe...

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Big Ag Takes Aim at Cuban Embargo

Barth Anderson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kansas, Fidel Castro, Cuban Embargo, Jerry Moran, Agriculture, Rosa DeLauro, Collin Peterson, Cuba, Barack Obama, Politics News
Barth Anderson

You have to give Big Ag its due: Big Soy and friends are pushing hard to end the ridiculous US embargo of Cuba.

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Sam Stein

Lieberman's Conn. Colleagues: He's Out Of Touch With Constituents On Public Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Connecticut Public Plan, Lieberman Delauro, Joseph Lieberman, Public Plan, Rosa DeLauro, Lieberman Public Plan, Delauro Chris Murphy, Murphy Public Plan, Politics News

Two of Connecticut's five members of the House of Representatives accused the state's junior senator, Joseph Lieberman, of turning his back on the int...

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How to Win a Culture War

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion Reduction, Culture War, Children, Affordable Health Care, Common Ground, Wedge Issue, United States, Health, Legislation, America, Choice, Culture, Parent, Quality Affordable Health Care, Abortion, Culture Warrior, Women, Conflict, Pregnant Women, Unintended Pregnancies, Policy Debate, Health Care Reform, Rosa DeLauro, Tim Ryan, Health Care, Private Insurance, Politics News
Jim Wallis

Want to know how to win a culture war? Don't fight one.

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Arthur Delaney

Rosa DeLauro: Swine Flu "Looming Large" Behind Sick Leave Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rosa DeLauro, Paid Sick Leave, Sick Days, Swine Flu, Swine Flu Outbreak, Sick Leave, H1n1, Politics News

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) introduced a bill this week that would allow American workers to earn up to seven paid sick days a year. A study released ...

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MEAL Act: Dems Push To Get Calorie Counts On Menus

The Washington Post | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Menu Education and Labeling, Rosa DeLauro, MEAL Act, Menu Labeling, Calorie Counts, Tom Harkin, Politics News

Sen.Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro(D-Conn.) are reintroducing the aptly-named MEAL Act. "MEAL" stands -- somewhat awkwardly -- for Menu Edu...

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Probe the Past To Protect the Future

Andrew Kreig | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, John Conyers, Jill Simpson, Don Siegelman, Bailout, Patrick Leahy, Economy, Kevin Martin, Rosa DeLauro, John Dingell, Stimulus, Investigate, Barack Obama, Torture, Politics News
Andrew Kreig

Congress is taking well-publicized steps for increased oversight. Yet vigorous public pressure is required to ensure that their "investigations" are not merely for show.

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Fixing Our Food Safety System

Rep. Rosa DeLauro | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rosa DeLauro, Food Safety Legislation, Food Safety, Food Safety Bill, Fda, Politics News
Rep. Rosa DeLauro

We have a responsibility to people to truly fix systemic problems in our food safety system, starting with a fundamental restructuring of the food safety bureaucracy at the FDA.

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President Obama and the Future of Women's Health

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lily Ledbetter Act, Family Planning, Reproductive Rights, Paycheck Fairness Act, Sex Education, Barack Obama, Conscience Clause, Women's Health, Jan Schakowsky, Richard Nixon, The Prevention First Act, Teen Pregnancy, Breaking Politics News, Rosa DeLauro, Contraception, Women and the Economy, Title X, Politics News
Marcia G. Yerman

With a president who understands and accepts a woman's right to reproductive justice, the focus will now entail a reexamination of the multitude of factors that are part of the larger picture.

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'Yes We Can' Create a Sane Food Policy in the U.S.

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Charlie Stenholm, Whole Foods, Time Magazine, Pew Foundation, Center for Public Integrity, John Carlin, Pew Commission, Larry Summers, Joe Klein, Barack Obama, Clinton Administration, Farm Bill, Michael Pollan, John Salazar, Colin Peterson, Union of Concerned Scientists, Dwight Eisenhower, Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture, John Podesta, Rosa DeLauro, Obama Transition, National Economic Council, Eric Schlosser, Bill Moyers, Politics News
Bruce Friedrich

In January, we will have a president who understands and cares about the broader implications of our food policy. This will be an impressive first.

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Seth Colter Walls

Bush Running Out Of Time For Iraq-U.S. Security Deal, House Dems Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq War, Bill Delahunt, Moqtada Al-Sadr, Sofa, War Wire, George W. Bush, Rosa DeLauro, Status of Forces Agreement, Politics News

Two House Democrats are expressing "uncertainty" that President Bush will have enough time to finalize the planned Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) w...

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Sam Stein

Female Obama Surrogates Go On Attack As One Dem Defects

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rosa DeLauro, Abortion, Obama Female Votes, Female Voters, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Clinton Female Voters, Mccain Female Voters, Economic Policies, Pelosi, Sarah Palin Palin Female Vote, Hillary Clinton, Politics News

The war over women voters continued in the heart of Washington D.C. today. As Barack Obama surrogates lambasted the opposition on pay equity, health c...

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The Paycheck Fairness Act: A Victory in Closing the Wage Gap

Rep. Rosa DeLauro | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Rosa DeLauro, Women, Feminism, Paycheck Fairness Act, Politics News
Rep. Rosa DeLauro

To this day women are still just earning 77 cents per dollar earned by a man. This wage disparity between men and women costs women anywhere from $400,000 to $2 million over a lifetime.

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Sam Stein

Obama And McCain Seeking Solace With Clinton Voters

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rosa DeLauro, McCain Clinton Voters, Obama Clinton Primary, John Mccain Females, Obama Campaign Meeting, Obama Clinton Supporters, Former Clinton Supporters, Clinton Female Voters, Barack Obama Female Voters, Obama Female Voters, Politics News

Going into the general election, three components of Sen. Hillary Clinton's political coalition were believed to be up for grabs: Hispanics, blue coll...

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Sam Stein

DeLauro To Endorse Obama On Saturday

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Delauro, Democratic Primary, New Haven, Connecticut, Rosa DeLauro, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Saturday, 2008 Election, Endorsement, Barack Obama, Politics News

Rep Rosa DeLauro, a veteran high-ranking Democrat from Connecticut, is set to endorse Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday, the Huffington Post has learned. ...

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Sam Stein

Bush Veto Could Threaten Food Safety For Millions

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rosa DeLauro, FDA Mismanagement, Food and Drug Safety, Food and Drug Administration, Bush Veto, Politics News

In the wake of a scathing report detailing the dangerously poor state of the Food and Drug Administration, one lawmaker is calling on President Bush t...

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