DeLauro Votes Against Continuing Resolution

Statement

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) released the following statement today after voting against the Senate's Continuing Resolution:

"I am strongly opposed to this bill, which makes permanent the deep, indiscriminate, and harmful budget cuts known as sequestration. These cuts threaten our economic recovery and the health, well-being, and future of millions of American families.

"Both the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have argued that sequestration could cost us as many as 750,000 jobs. And that is not all.

"This resolution cuts 70,000 children out of Head Start. It takes away critical job training programs from hundreds of thousands of unemployed and dislocated workers, veterans, and students. It forces 2500 schools and one million disadvantaged children to lose Title I aid. It cuts child care assistance for 30,000 kids. And it risks undermining access to new health insurance marketplaces for American consumers provided for in the Affordable Care Act.

"The list goes on and on. On top of deep cuts that have already become law, this resolution slices even deeper into every responsibility of good government --public health, safety, transportation, you name it. It also includes four egregious provisions related to firearms that would permanently blindfold law enforcement and hamper our ability to combat gun violence.

"This is not what the American people want from us. We should have passed a bill that creates jobs, grows the economy, and protects the middle-class, seniors, and most vulnerable. The legislation we passed today does none of these things. Instead, it needlessly puts American families at risk."

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