WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on July 13: Rep. Courtney (CT-02) and the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment held a hearing titled A Major Test: Examining the Impact of COVID-19 on the Future of Higher Education. The hearing came following Monday's new guidance by the Trump Administration and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that could force some international students to le  more

NORWICH, Connecticut, July 15 -- Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Connecticut, issued the following statement: Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), a senior Member of the House Committee on Education and Labor, issued the following statement after the Trump Administration rescinded its proposed rule that would have required international students in the United States to leave the country or transfer if their school held classes entirely online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. * * * "The Administration's plan t  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-Connecticut, issued the following statement on July 16 regarding the opening of the Connecticut Labor Department Contact Center: "I was thrilled to hear about the opening of the new federally funded CT Department of Labor (CT DOL) Contact Center earlier today. "Since mid-March, the Connecticut Department of Labor has received 708,000 claims for unemployment, which is roughly five years' worth of claims, and at times there was a backlog of up to si  more

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-Connecticut, issued the following statement on the Trump administration's plan to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and order hospitals to send patient's coronavirus data directly to a Washington-based database: "More than 135,000 people in the United States have died due to the coronavirus. How many more people must suffer, and how many more families must lose loved ones before this administration stops playing political games?  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 14 -- Rep. John B. Larson, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) applauded the announcement that InterCommunity Health Care will receive $191,492 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to expand COVID-19 testing. "As a Federally Qualified Health Center Look Alike (FQHC-LA), InterCommunity Health Care plays an integral role in providing a full spectrum of health care services to East Hartford and Hartford r  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 14 -- Rep. John B. Larson, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) led a letter with Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Reps. Joe Courtney (CT-02), Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Jim Himes (CT-04), and Jahana Hayes (CT-05) urging the Trump Administration to rescind the new Student and Exchange Visitor Program guidance issued by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and consult with stakeholders to avoi  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Rep. Nita Lowey, D-New York, issued the following joint statement with Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Connecticut, highlighting Anthony Fauci's expertise, commitment to a nonpartisan approach to ending the coronavirus pandemic: "We have known and worked with Dr. Anthony Fauci for many, many years, and he has shown us nothing but the utmost professionalism. His level of expertise in infectious diseases is unrivaled. From his groundbreaking work on HIV/AIDS to his applied research on  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, and U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, sent a letter to Acting Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Education (ED) Sandra Bruce calling for a review of the Department of  more

WASHINGTON, July 16 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, issued the following statement after President Trump announced the administration's planned weakening of National Environmental Policy Act protections: "Trump is fooling no one by gutting a core environmental law under the guise of accelerating infrastructure. "NEPA reviews help Americans protect themselves from polluting projects in their backyards, and give communities of color an important regulatory voice when polluters impact  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 14 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) joined a letter including Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Reps. Joe Courtney (CT-02), Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Jim Himes (CT-04), and Jahana Hayes (CT-05) led by Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) urging the Trump Administration to rescind the new Student and Exchange Visitor Program guidance issued by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and cons  more