NEW CASTLE COUNTY – Today, New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer, U.S. Senator Tom Carper and U.S. Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester (Both D-Del.) joined at the Woodlawn Library to announce the county’s “100 EV Plugs Plan” to make more than 100 Electric Vehicle (EV) charging plugs available to the public at New Castle County Parks and Libraries. This project is funded in part… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) applauded the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) selection of the Mid-Atlantic Clean Hydrogen Hub (MACH2), a public-private partnership between Delaware, Southeastern Pennsylvania, and Southern New Jersey, as one of 7 regional clean hydrogen hubs. Made… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), issued the following statement after voting for a bipartisan funding agreement that will provide short-term funding for the federal government over the next 45 days. The agreement holds funding levels steady, avoiding steep and harmful cuts that were being debated earlier in the week. The agreement will now… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), introduced the Blue Collar to Green Collar Jobs Development Act. The bill is the latest addition to Blunt Rochester’s comprehensive Jobs Agenda, introduced earlier this year.
Blunt Rochester was joined in introducing the bill by Reps. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), Kevin Mullin (D-Calif.), Jamaal… Read more »
WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, along with Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.), announced a $10 million grant to the University of Delaware’s National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL). This funding was secured by Carper, Coons, and Blunt Rochester through the federal congressionally directed spending… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), marking nine years since the passing of her late husband, Charles, introduced the Charles Rochester Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment Act. Charles Rochester tore his Achilles tendon playing a game of pickup basketball before a business meeting. Blood clots traveled to his heart and lungs and, at the age of 52, he… Read more »
NEWARK, Del. — Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) hosted a roundtable with a broad group of gun violence prevention and mental health advocates as well as local officials to highlight how funding from the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act is at work in Delaware to improve community safety, invest in mental health care, and increase school safety. The… Read more »
WILMINGTON, Del. – U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons and U.S. Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) today joined members of Brandywine Counseling & Community Services, Inc. (BCCS) to celebrate $757,000 in congressional funding to support BCCS’ Continuous Community-Care Mobile Treatment (CCMT) service.
The CCMT is a mobile health care unit created to… Read more »
MILTON, Del. — Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) joined Milton Mayor John Collier and Milton Town Manager Kristy Rogers for a tour of Milton’s current Public Works Facility and to discuss Milton’s Community Project Funding request for FY 2024. The federal funding would be used to help fund the construction of a new public works facility. Blunt Rochester also visited… Read more »
MIDDLETOWN, Del. - Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), along with representatives from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, hosted a roundtable at the Middletown Senior Center to highlight the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act on lowering health care costs for seniors. The roundtable focused on three… Read more »
