WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) hosted a tax filing information session with special guests Yvette Brooks-Williams from the IRS and Wendy Figueroa from the Delaware Taxpayer Advocate. The tax filing season started on Monday, January 24, and ends on Monday, April 18. Blunt Rochester collected questions from Delawareans about their concerns including last… Read more »
The full video of the conversation can be found here.
Blunt Rochester Joined by Delaware Stakeholders for Conversation on Supply Chain and the America COMPETES Act
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) held a virtual conversation with Delaware stakeholders to discuss issues impacting our domestic supply chain and how… Read more »
WASHINGTON - As part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022, the House of Representatives passed the Fraud and Scam Reduction Act. The bill was introduced early in the 117th Congress by Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Congressman Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), Congressman Ted Deutch (D-Fla.), Congressman Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), and Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vt.). The… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) voted to fund nearly $100 million in Delaware projects, $23,662,500 of which she previously secured for Delaware through the Community Project Funding process. This funding, included in the appropriations government funding package, responds directly to some of the most pressing needs in New Castle, Kent, and Sussex… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) will be joined virtually by her guest, entrepreneur, and small business owner, Ebon Flagg of Delaware City, Delaware, at this evening’s State of the Union Address. Ebon owns Babe Styling Studio, a small business located in Wilmington, Delaware. In July of 2021, Blunt Rochester partnered with Babe Styling Studio and Delaware State… Read more »
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), issued the following statement following President Joseph R. Biden’s first State of the Union Address to a Joint Session of Congress.
“This evening, President Biden laid out in clear terms the progress that our country has made one year into the Biden-Harris Administration and how much further we have to… Read more »
WILMINGTON, Del. - Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), the first woman and first Black woman to represent Delaware in Congress, issued the following statement on the announcement that President Joseph R. Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill the seat of retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the United States Supreme Court.
“Today is a truly… Read more »
Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) issued the following statement on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“My heart breaks for the people of Ukraine, today. In a brazen violation of international law, President Putin has launched an unprecedented full-scale invasion of a sovereign democratic country. I cannot stress strongly enough the danger this invasion poses both to the… Read more »
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) voted to pass H.R. 4521, the America COMPETES Act of 2022. The bill is a comprehensive package to bolster America’s global economic competitiveness. The package also includes a bipartisan provision, authored by Blunt Rochester, the Building Resilient Supply Chains Act authored by Blunt Rochester. The provision bolsters… Read more »
