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Rosa DeLauro

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  1. “It really is, and in a different way. As I say, you know, the speaker's parents served in the Congress, her dad did, her brother did, her mom was the organizer in the family. So she grew up in a very political household in the same way I did. It was more at the local level that I did. But we do. We share the same background. You know, I'm often asked by the press what motivates you, what makes you vote the way you do, what would take up the issues that you take up. And it's not for the blessed time I've spent in the U.S. House of Representatives, but it was growing up in an Italian Catholic household in New Haven, Connecticut. And for Nancy Pelosi, was an Italian Catholic household in Baltimore, Maryland. So we come from the same background, you know, a little bit different, but with that same set of values about what public service is.”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “My God, it's so unseemly. You know, $15, $20 million, some of them. Or a state, you know, I had someone four years ago who ran against me. She was a multimillionaire, spent maybe two million or more. And I had to scramble. I had to make those calls because I didn't have the money to try to keep up.”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Every day. I know some of my colleagues are down at the Democratic Congressional campaign committee every day at some period of time to make the calls. And the people who come from the coast are there because it's earlier. They're there in the evening and then they make calls in. And we have to, you know, some of the legislation that's on the books now has to be reversed that allows people to give untold amounts without you knowing where it's coming from and so forth. So we need to do that. But we do have a system now in which if you're going to run and you have to put ads on the TV, you have to pay for those ads. If you want to hire volunteers or you want to hire people and you want to, you have to pay them. And that's just a fact of life for some of these. You know, my first campaign cost me under a million dollars. My God, that's a bar.”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Not enough of my staff tells me. They really are always after me. When are you going to make the calls? When are you going to make the calls?”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “First of all, I wish we were a little bit like all of you that our election season were truncated and was, you know, rather than a year, 18 months, et cetera. My God. So that's when you think about the amount of money that's involved, et cetera. But the issue here is the transparency in funding, where it's coming from, who is giving, et cetera, which we should have many, many more restrictions on and what's happening. Money, unfortunately, does play a very, very big role.”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “She ran for office, she could look at the voting list and identify everyone that she knew and she knew when they came out to vote and what time they came out to vote or she would go to pick them up to vote. So it was really the connection with people. And that's who I am. And so I go back every weekend pretty much. I try to get to as many places, but the interaction is It's exciting. you know, and it gives you energy. People find themselves in a position where they don't know where to turn to get something done. And we have the ability to help them to be able to do that. And so that's the way I perceive.”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “You have to understand my own background. First of all, I'm the daughter of an immigrant family, only dare dream I would be in this position someday. But both of my parents served on the city council in New Haven. They didn't write comprehensive legislation. Their brand of politics was how do you make government work for people? Our kitchen table was a community room. People could come in about a job for their kid, an immigration problem, Social Security, wherever it was. So I grew up in that atmosphere of the role of advocacy, of how do you make government work for people. And my mother”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Several years. In labor, you cut back no overtime, no project labor agreements, disastrous with regard to collective bargaining. And I'm witnessing all of this in the appropriations bills. And so I've gotten that out to all my colleagues. We've gotten it to the press so we can actually look at it's happening right now. But the public needs to know it is happening and they need to be wary of it.”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Okay, yes. But let me just tell you now, if you think that this is A pipe dream that this is a plan on paper, what I did, what I asked my staff to do, I'm happy to get it to you. We put together a document. I said, find out for me in the appropriations bills that we're currently working on, track project 2025, and tell me where a 2025 is being enacted. I have a 20-page document, longer-page document. I can tell you that And the Department of Education eliminate Title I, which is the bulwark of public education in the United States over the next”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “Well, it's very, very interesting that there seems to be a much more messaging about this. And I find the local people know pieces of it. I think it's really their blueprint for the future. You dismantle the Affordable Care Act, National Ban on Abortion, that you replace civil servants with the MAGA activists, eliminate public education. You then overtime no overtime.”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “It is now central to the campaign. She is going to expand and extend the child tax credit. She wants a $6,000 payment to families at $500 a month. And it includes a baby bonus, which we included, I included in my bill, because in the first year of life, it's very expensive to rear a child's. It's diapers, everything that you have to get, the furniture, everything that you have to get. And she's committed to it. And as I say, it's the first thing on the list. And I think that resonates with people. That resonates with people. She's also very clear about the cost of food prices. You know, there's no food shortage in the United States. So, why are the prices so high? Sure, the pandemic was supply chain. That's done.”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “many low and confirmants because you know I've rarely seen and you are both students of government I see a federal programs come and go I have never seen a federal program that worked as well and carried out the mission that it was intended to do and we got $10 for every dollar invested people bought childcare so that they could go to work They paid tuition for their kids. They bought school supplies. They bought food, etc. It was a new lease on life.”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “It was because in the time we could only get it for one year. I started out wanting it to be permanent. I was told we couldn't do that. We couldn't afford it. Then I was told, okay, I said five years. No, five years. Then I said three, no, a year. And I wasn't going to let it go. I said, yes, we'll take it for one year. And in one year. We reduce that poverty level. Half of our kids were out of poverty in the United States.”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Right off the bat. And she is doing that. She is talking about people need to have a job which pays a good wage and so that what they can do is to be able to meet their financial obligations. And she talks about it's opportunity, but look, I author the child tax credit, and so I'm being very self-serving about that. But 20 years I've worked on the child tax credit. President Biden put it into the American Rescue Plan. We had it for one year and it expired. We had lowered the poverty rate to 5.4% when we yanked the child tax credit. It went up to 12.2%. Hunger decreased by a quarter. It now has gone up again. And what the child tax credit will do, and she has picked this up, it's become the flagship of the Democratic Party. $6,000 a year at $500 a month. Months for every child. We have found the antidote to poverty here. It worked.”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “He wanted to start from saying what he had accomplished, and he accomplished an incredible amount, took over the pandemic, turned the economy around. It's all of these things. Because investment in climate, all of the above in jobs, no question. But if you are someone in any city or town, you haven't seen your wages go up in years, you go to the grocery store, you're finding that you have to buy a jar of mayonnaise that cost $9, you know, this is where the struggle is. And what we need to do is to acknowledge that struggle.”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “Well, what is really, I'm very, very excited about what Kamala Harris' message is. Americans are struggling. The economic insecurity in this country is something as well that is palpable. It's not a campaign slogan to say that people are living paycheck to paycheck. They are. It's the cost of health care. It's the cost of food. It's housing. Big, big issues. And they haven't had a raise in their wages in years and years and years. So you have to start with them from where they are. I said over and over again to some of my colleagues at the White House, you can't start by telling them that we have the strongest economy in the world. You can't tell that we've created $16 billion. We're moving in a direction. But their lives, they're not there.”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “With ourselves about it. And so now the energy, the momentum, the enthusiasm is palpable. And if I can just go on for a moment more, it's not just here, because here, you know, it's just every Democrat in the country is here and we're all talking the same language. I live in New Haven, Connecticut, the home of Yale University, and Rory's home for a while. But people who know me, they see me on the street. They'll say, hello, Rosa. But the next thing out of their mouth is we're going to win. She's great. We got to get people out to vote. That is palpable. I went to the dentist to get my teeth cleaned just before coming here. And the dental hygienist, you know, you can't talk when they're talking. But she is telling me about how excited she is about Kamala Harris's run for president and what it means. So I think it's just, it is.”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “Oh my gosh, no, no. If you listen to him, he says, you know, after you vote for me, this time you won't have to vote again. God help us with what he means in that direction and that he would be a dictator on the first day. So, you know, it's a very, very different direction. And if you take a look at the kind of seamless transition that we have had from President Biden to Vice President Kamala Harris now as our nominee. And again, along with him and his help, she was able to take on the nomination, which she did in very short art. It's 28 days. 28 days. They've raised over $300 million for the campaign. And she has unified the Democratic Party. She has really brought people together who were struggling. They were struggling. You know, I think we have to be honest.”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “Well, you know, I think that, first of all, there's a very, very big difference in conventions. The mood, as I say, also the environment and the direction. And one dark and gloomy, and this is really a triumph. I think the Republicans did think that they were ahead. And, you know, we have an extraordinary individual who is our president of the United States, and that's Joe Biden. And he understood what was happening, as difficult as that might have been for him to make the decision to leave. He did it with grace, with courage, and with dignity. And he's an extraordinary, extraordinary man. I know him a very long time. And he passed a torch to Kamala Harris. Now, this is something that my Republican colleagues were not anticipating. So they are in a bit of a sweat.”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “Sure, well, Gideon, who you met, is soon to be speaker of the house, Hakeem Jeffries, his chief of staff, and is with him on the floor of the house all of the time when I can't get to speak to Hakeem. I talk to her. I call Gideon and tell him I want to talk to him or I pass messages through Gideon to Hakeem, who is very accessible, as you might imagine. But Gideon is at the center of what's happening in the Congress, what's happening with our negotiations when we are dealing with appropriations, et cetera, and everything that our leader Jeffreys is involved in, Gideon, is at the center of that.”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  21. “Well, thank you so much. It's such a delight to see both of you and be with you today in this really very exciting environment. It's going to be really an extraordinary and historic week in U.S. politics.”

    2024-08-24 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 93. DNC Special: The Veteran Congresswoman (Rosa DeLauro) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source