WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), and Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) introduced the Public Health Air Quality Act of 2020. The bill would require the EPA to implement immediate fenceline monitoring for toxic air pollutants at facilities contributing to high local cancer rates and other health threats from dangerous pollutants. Joining Blunt Rochester and… Read more »
WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives adopted an amendment to the Environment and Interior Division of H.R. 7608, proposed by Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Congressman Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.), Congressman A. Donald McEachin (D-Va.), and Congressman Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) which would block EPA from finalizing an insufficiently protective National Ambient Air Quality… Read more »
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) voted to pass the Great American Outdoors Act, one of Congress’ most significant investments in environmental conservation in a generation.
The bill – originally introduced by Rep. Joe Cunningham (D-S.C.) – fully funds the successful and popular Land and Water Conservation Fund at $900 million annually, well above… Read more »
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) voted to pass H.R.6395, the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2021. This bipartisan bill complies with the bipartisan budget agreement. It authorizes $732 billion in discretionary spending for our national defense for FY 2021, including approximately $69 billion for Overseas… Read more »
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) issued the following statement on the passing of Congressman & civil rights icon John Lewis.
“50 years after he addressed the march on Washington, Congressman John Lewis returned to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with our nation’s first African American President to address and inspire a new generation… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) announced that the Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) will provide a $1.6 million payment to Nanticoke Hospital in Seaford, Delaware to help address the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The award comes after the Delaware Congressional Delegation wrote to… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Congressman Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.), and Congressman Mike Levin (D-Calif.) introduced legislation that would ensure veterans receive the highest quality care possible from private providers. The VA Clinical Training in Evidence-based treatments And Military (TEAM) Culture Act will require that veterans receive culturally… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) released the following statement regarding recent reports that the deaths of three Marine reservists, including a Delaware native, Staff Sgt. Christopher A. Slutman, who were killed by a roadside bomb near Bagram Air Base last April, are being… Read more »
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) issued the following statement on the removal of the whipping post in Georgetown, Delaware.
“As our country has grappled with a racial reckoning over these past weeks, I have done a great deal of reflection on the vestiges of systemic racism that we see in our own state. There are few that illicit the visceral… Read more »
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) voted to pass H.R. 2, the Moving Forward Act. The bill is a more than $1.5 trillion plan to rebuild American infrastructure—not only roads, bridges, and transit systems, but also schools, housing, broadband access, and so much more.
The package includes measures led by Blunt Rochester, including fixing… Read more »
