WILMINGTON, DE - Tonight, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) issued the following statement on the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
“My heart aches. Millions of women were able to achieve their goals, personal and professional because of the work of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her work on behalf of her male clients was the truest mark of her commitment to gender… Read more »
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) introduced the Investing in Community Healing Act of 2020. The bill would connect communities of color with community-based organizations to create better access to trauma-informed, culturally competent mental and behavioral health services while promoting mental health awareness and reducing… Read more »
HARRINGTON, Del. – Today, Delaware’s Congressional Delegation of U.S. Senators Tom Carper, Chris Coons and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) along with Delaware Department of Agriculture Secretary Michael Scuse announced an $18,803,354 award from the Department of Transportation to Delmarva Central Railroad to upgrade its near century-old rail infrastructure.… Read more »
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.), and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led a letter of 28 Members of Congress to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler expressing their deep concern with a new rule which would weaken the EPA’s ability to limit dangerous methane pollution from the oil and… Read more »
WILMINGTON, DE - Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) issued the following statement to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment, which prohibited states from denying a citizen the right to vote on the basis of sex.
“One Hundred Years Ago, today, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was formally adopted,… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, with the U.S. Postal Service under assault from the Trump Administration, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) voted to pass H.R. 8015, the Delivering for America Act. The Delivering for America Act requires the USPS to return to the operations and levels of service that were in place on January 1, 2020 throughout the duration of the coronavirus public… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Congressman Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.), and Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) led over 70 Members of the House in writing a letter to the United States Postal Service Inspector General, requesting an immediate investigation into the impact of Postmaster General DeJoy’s changes to the Postal Service.
“We are… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee and U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler expressing grave concern over the apparent failure of the EPA to… Read more »
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), issued the following statement on the passing of Major General Carol Timmons. Timmons served as the Adjutant General of the Delaware National Guard from 2017-2019, serving as the first female Adjutant General in Delaware’s history.
“My heart breaks at the passing of General Timmons. Her groundbreaking and… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper, Chris Coons and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) announced that the U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $1.8 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to capitalize and administer Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and… Read more »
