Honorable Rosa DeLauro
United States Representative, Connecticut, Democrat
Representative DeLauro, of the Third District of Connecticut, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990. She was Executive Assistant to New Haven Mayor Frank Logue from 1976 to 1977, Executive Assistant and Development Administrator for the City of New Haven from 1977 to 1979, and Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd (CT-D) from 1980 to 1987. She serves on the Appropriations Committee, where she chairs the Agriculture_FDA Appropriations Subcommittee, and on the Budget Committee. The following is from an October 3, 2007, policy address at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.As Chairwoman of the…