WILMINGTON, Del. – Governor Carney, U.S. Senators Carper and Coons, and Representative Blunt Rochester announced Monday nearly $6 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) capital projects funding (CPF) to nonprofit organizations that provide much needed housing services. This funding is in addition to the $65 million in capital projects announced this past March for… Read more »
Left: Delaware Secretary of Agriculture Michael T. Scuse and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester at the Delaware State Fair.
Right: Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester holds the “Heaviest Tomato.”
HARRINGTON, Del. — Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) joined Delaware Secretary of Agriculture Michael T. Scuse for a visit to the Delaware State Fair, a yearly event… Read more »
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) issued the following statement after voting against the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act. The bill passed by an historically close vote of 219-210, largely along party lines. This marked the first time in Blunt Rochester’s tenure in Congress that she has voted against the measure after extreme partisan… Read more »
NEW CASTLE, Del. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper, Chris Coons, U.S. Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) celebrated the groundbreaking of the Delaware Air National Guard’s Fuel Cell and Corrosion Control Hangar for their C-130 aircrafts. They were joined by Major General Michael Berry, Adjutant General of the Delaware National Guard, and Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long. The Fuel… Read more »
WILMINGTON, Del. – Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) issued the following statement after the Supreme Court’s decision to bar affirmative action in college admissions.
“The Supreme Court’s decision is profoundly damaging and continues to demonstrate that it is out-of-step with the American public and is operating well outside of the judicial mainstream.… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) today announced the award of $44,000,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)’s Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) grant program. Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the grants will support significant trail… Read more »
WILMINGTON, Del. – Governor John Carney and Lt. Governor Bethany Hall-Long on Monday announced $107 million in federal funding to reach our goal of connecting every Delaware home and business to high-speed internet.
Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) is a federal grant program that aims to… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) today announced the award of $8,740,728 from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to the Delaware Transit Corporation (DART). Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, this grant will support DART as it converts its transit fleet… Read more »
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), issued the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health which overturned Roe v. Wade.
“It’s been one year since the Supreme Court overturned fifty years of precedent and struck down Roe v. Wade. Fortunately, in Delaware, a woman’s right to choose is… Read more »
WASHINGTON - Today, Reps. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, and Jennifer McClellan (D-Va.), with Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), reintroduced the bicameral Technology Assessment for Air Quality Management Act, legislation that would authorize $55 million over five years for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)… Read more »
