Rosa DeLauro

Rosa DeLauro ( born March 2, 1943 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American politician. Since 1991, it represents the third electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Rosa DeLauro visited the Laurelton Hall High School in West Haven and later to 1964, the Marymount College in Tarrytown (New York). Between 1962-1963 she studied in London at the London School of Economics. She finished her studies in 1966 at Columbia University in New York City. After her studies DeLauro embarked on a political career. She became a member of the Democratic Party and was 1976-1977 member of the staff of the mayor of New Haven. In 1978, she served as campaign manager for Frank Logue, who ran for the office of mayor in New Haven. Between 1977 and 1979 she was employed in the administration of the city of New Haven. Then she was in the years 1979 and 1980 Wahhlkampfleiterin of U.S. Senator Chris Dodd, whose staff she belonged 1981-1987.

In the congressional elections of 1990, DeLauro in the third district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC was selected. There it began on 3 January 1991 in the footsteps of Bruce Morrison. After it was confirmed in the following elections, in their own office, they can exercise their mandate in Congress today. Her current term of office runs until 3 January 2011.

DeLauro is considered very liberal and was co-founder of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. She is a member of the Appropriations Committee and three subcommittees. She also serves on the Budget Committee. In 2009, she introduced a draft of a new Food Control Act ( Food Safety Modernization Act ), the topic of heated debate in the United States is today. In the presidential elections of 2008, she supported Barack Obama. Rosa DeLauro is married to Stanley Greenberg. Private the couple lives in New Haven.