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Rosa L. DeLauro

DemocratRosa L. DeLauro

U.S. Representative · Connecticut

Connecticut's 3rd district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from Connecticut

4 tracked promises, 3 rated

Connecticut · Connecticut's 3rd district

Connecticut's 3rd district

Their congressional district

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88/100
Trust rating
Strongly keeps promises
88
0 · Broken50 · Mixed100 · Kept
A transparent rescale of the Integrity Score (+75) to 0–100, aggregated from 3 rated promises. Never an opaque single score.
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Running against

How they won their seat

Rosa L. Delauro won the 2024 U.S. House election in Connecticut (District 3) with 58.9% of the vote (193,684 votes).

58.9%
Win share
193,684
Votes for winner
328,923
Total cast
  • Rosa L. Delauro · Democrat58.9%
  • Michael Massey · Republican39.6%
  • Independent · Na1.5%
  • 2 Other Candidates0%

Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.

Inferred legislative agendas

Rosa L. DeLauro's record indicates legislative activity related to health, labor, and family-related issues, as evidenced by her sponsorship of bills like the Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act and the Healthy Families Act. Additionally, her role as Ranking Member on the House Committee on Appropriations indicates her involvement in funding for health and education services. Focus areas (from the record): Labor Rights · Health Care · Family Support · Education · Consumer Protection Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. Alignment cannot be assessed due to lack of evidence. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of her sponsored bills; There is no information on her unlogged work or informal activities; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of her overall policy priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Rosa L. DeLauro has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.

Showing 2022. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.

Activity in office

What Rosa L. DeLauro has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score.

Bills sponsored
27

Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

27bills sponsored
27 awaiting status
013253850Bills2022: 27 awaiting status272022

Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.

Bill success rate

0%
0 of 0 sponsored bills became law

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$1.1M
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$500K$1M$1.5M$2M2026: raised $1.1M2026: spent $1.2M20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $53K (5%)Large individual (itemized): $503K (44%)44%PAC / committee: $584K (51%)51%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$53K5%
  • Large individual (itemized)$503K44%
  • PAC / committee$584K51%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Integrity

Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown

+75 · based on 3 rated promises

  • Championed 3

Teal segments are promises kept; amber and stone segments are promises worked against. The signed score weights each rated promise by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is shown separately from popularity, finance, disclosure, and stated positions. Methodology is open.

Integrity over time

In office since Jan 2019 · 3 rated promises

Each step is a real change in the sourced record — the score holds between assessments.

−100 worked against0+100 kept

Promise status over time

How the tracked promise record has evolved.

3 tracked
  • Kept3
  • Against0
  • No opportunity0
  • In progress0
0123Jul 2026Jul 2026

Replayed from this official’s sourced assessment history — the bands step only when an assessment is recorded or changed. Based on the most recent roll-call votes on file and the tracked promise assessments; never interpolated.

Not yet scoredNot yet rated 1— tracked, but not counted toward Integrity

Topic coverage

4 promises across 4 topics

What this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.

  • Child Tax Credit / Child Poverty1
  • Equal Pay / Labor1
  • Food Safety1
  • Paid Family and Medical Leave1
Kept Worked against No opportunity / not yet scored

Evidence & significance

Evidence quality

Strongest source cited per promise.

  • Primary (official record)4100%

Significance mix

How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).

10
20
30
40
54

Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.

Tracked promises

4 tracked promises

Not yet rated

Establish a single, independent federal food safety agency with a Senate-confirmed Commissioner by enacting the Federal Food Administration Act, consolidating the food-safety functions now split across the FDA and USDA into one agency dedicated to food safety.

Food SafetySpecific · measurablePromised Dec 2025
Sourceshttps://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/delauro-durbin-reintroduce-federal-food-administration-acthttps://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-delauro-introduce-the-federal-food-administration-act
Championedhigh confidence

Enact the American Family Act to permanently expand and improve the Child Tax Credit, restoring the 2021 monthly credit of $300 per month ($3,600/year) for each child under 6 and $250 per month ($3,000/year) for each child ages 6-17, paid in monthly installments and fully refundable.

Child Tax Credit / Child PovertySpecific · measurablePromised Jan 2024
Sourceshttps://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/delauro-delbene-torres-introduce-legislation-make-permanent-expandedhttps://ritchietorres.house.gov/posts/u-s-reps-torres-delauro-delbene-reintroduce-federal-legislation-to-expand-improve-and-make-permanent-the-child-tax-credithttps://ctmirror.org/2024/01/15/child-tax-credit-rosa-delauro/https://delbene.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4092https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2763
Championedhigh confidence

Enact the Paycheck Fairness Act to close the gender wage gap by ending pay-secrecy policies, holding employers accountable for discriminatory pay practices, making it easier for workers to challenge pay discrimination, and strengthening remedies for affected employees.

Equal Pay / LaborSpecific · measurablePromised Mar 2023
Sourceshttps://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/delauro-murray-introduce-paycheck-fairness-acthttps://www.help.senate.gov/ranking/newsroom/press/-murray-delauro-mark-equal-pay-day-reintroduce-paycheck-fairness-acthttps://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr17/BILLS-118hr17ih.xmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_Fairness_Act
Championedhigh confidence

Create a permanent national paid family and medical leave program by enacting the FAMILY Act, guaranteeing all workers up to 12 weeks of leave with up to 66% wage replacement, available regardless of employer size, part-time status, or self-employment.

Paid Family and Medical LeaveSpecific · measurablePromised Feb 2021
Sourceshttps://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/delauro-gillibrand-introduce-family-act-urge-congress-pass-permanenthttps://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/news/press/release/gillibrand-delauro-introduce-family-act-urge-congress-to-pass-permanent-paid-leave-solution-to-spur-economic-recovery/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAMILY_Acthttps://nationalpartnership.org/family-act/https://nationalpartnership.org/report/family-act-faq/https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5390

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
264
Nay
337
Present
1
Not voting
7

Full voting record

609 votes
120 of 609
Page 1 / 31

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Stated positions

4 positions on record

What this official says they believe — sourced claims, shown distinctly from tracked promises and from any assessment of what they did. A stated position is never scored and never affects the Integrity Score.

  • Food SafetyStated position

    Establish a single, independent federal food safety agency with a Senate-confirmed Commissioner by enacting the Federal Food Administration Act, consolidating the food-safety functions now split across the FDA and USDA into one agency dedicated to food safety.

    Sourceshttps://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/delauro-durbin-reintroduce-federal-food-administration-acthttps://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-delauro-introduce-the-federal-food-administration-act
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  • Child Tax Credit / Child PovertyStated position

    Enact the American Family Act to permanently expand and improve the Child Tax Credit, restoring the 2021 monthly credit of $300 per month ($3,600/year) for each child under 6 and $250 per month ($3,000/year) for each child ages 6-17, paid in monthly installments and fully refundable.

    Sourceshttps://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/delauro-delbene-torres-introduce-legislation-make-permanent-expandedhttps://ritchietorres.house.gov/posts/u-s-reps-torres-delauro-delbene-reintroduce-federal-legislation-to-expand-improve-and-make-permanent-the-child-tax-credithttps://ctmirror.org/2024/01/15/child-tax-credit-rosa-delauro/
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  • Equal Pay / LaborStated position

    Enact the Paycheck Fairness Act to close the gender wage gap by ending pay-secrecy policies, holding employers accountable for discriminatory pay practices, making it easier for workers to challenge pay discrimination, and strengthening remedies for affected employees.

    Sourceshttps://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/delauro-murray-introduce-paycheck-fairness-acthttps://www.help.senate.gov/ranking/newsroom/press/-murray-delauro-mark-equal-pay-day-reintroduce-paycheck-fairness-act
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  • Paid Family and Medical LeaveStated position

    Create a permanent national paid family and medical leave program by enacting the FAMILY Act, guaranteeing all workers up to 12 weeks of leave with up to 66% wage replacement, available regardless of employer size, part-time status, or self-employment.

    Sourceshttps://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/delauro-gillibrand-introduce-family-act-urge-congress-pass-permanenthttps://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/news/press/release/gillibrand-delauro-introduce-family-act-urge-congress-to-pass-permanent-paid-leave-solution-to-spur-economic-recovery/
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Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

Disclosure

A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.

No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.

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