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DeLauro To Clinton: Pick Warren For VP

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro offered a suggestion for energizing fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign: pick corporate-watchdog firebrand Elizabeth Warren as the vice-presidential nominee.

DeLauro made the suggestion during a press briefing Thrusday in her Elm Street district office.

She depicted the Massachusetts senator as the right addition to a ticket that already has foreign-policy and child-welfare cred.

I want Elizabeth because I think she has a real understanding and complements Hilary Clinton in this view that the greatest problem we have in this nation is that people are in jobs that don’t pay them enough money. There is a real economic struggle today. Families are suffering. We have to do something about turning that around,” DeLauro said of Warren, who successfully pushed for the creation of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau and has championed cracking down on predatory lending and too-big-to-fail banks.

The latest conventional wisdom in press reports: Clinton will instead shore up her anti-terror credentials by picking either an army general or a senator better known for foreign policy.

The military side, the foreign policy side, I don’t think there’s anybody more qualified than Hillary Clinton,” DeLauro argued. In addition to that, she has spent her lifetime, Hillary, in regard to families, kids.”

DeLauro said that when she advocates for Warren on the ticket, people ask her: How can you have two women?”

Her response” Have we not had two men forever?”

At the briefing, DeLauro also called for creation of a $5 billion public health emergency fund that the executive branch can tap without seeking Congressional approval or finding offsetting cuts to other programs.

She criticized the Republican majority in Congress for failing to acting on what she called the three public-health crises of the day: zika, opioids, and lead paint poisoning.

She supported President Obama’s request for a $1.9 billion emergency authorization to tackle Zika. She noted that authorities have confirmed 4,200 confirmed cases of the virus in the U.S., including 650 pregnant women who now fear their babies will be born with deformed heads. She disagreed with Republican colleagues who stalled on approving Obama’s request with the argument that officials hadn’t provided enough data. Administration officials had broken down how much money would go toward vaccines, state preparedness, and other uses, she said.

There’s more data on how the money will be used than” Congress had when it authorized the Gulf War, she said. If we can provide emergency funds for hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, we should be able to provide funds for public health emergencies,” she argued.

Think of a hearing with General Petraeus or Secretary of Defense Ash Carter coming before Congress and saying, We need $1.9 billion. We have an immediate crisis that unless we get the funding, we will have a national emergency. There would be a stampede in the House to prove this money. No documentation. We’d be ready to go. … The majority says, Listen to the generals in the field.’”

Similarly, she argued, Congress should listen to the generals” from the Centers for Disease Control and Institutes of Health about lethal threats from health crises.

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