WILMINGTON, Del. – Today, U.S. Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester, as well as U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (all D-Del.), announced three federal grants awarded to the Delaware Agricultural Museum, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, and the Delaware Museum of Nature and Science. The grants, awarded through the Institute of Museum and Library Services’… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester and U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (all D-Del.) announced that Delaware will receive a total of $375,000 from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. This investment comes as part of the Fiscal Year 2024 Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program, which has been… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester and U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (all D-Del.) today announced that Delmarva Corrugated Packaging, Inc. will receive $1 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) to support a project to install a two megawatt rooftop solar installation. Delmarva Corrugated Packaging, Inc.… Read more »
WILMINGTON, Del. – Today, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), alongside Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (both D-Del.), announced that the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) will receive a $2,740,499.10 award from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to replace the Bancroft Mills… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), alongside Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.), introduced the Preventing Unnecessary Deaths During Life-Threatening Events (PUDDLE) Act to protect families in Delaware and across the country from utility shutoffs during extreme weather events such as heat waves and cold snaps.
“No family should have to experience their utilities being… Read more »
Left to right: Delaware Secretary of Agriculture Michael T. Scuse, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Xochitl Torres Small.
Photos and b-roll from the visit can be found here.
HARRINGTON, Del. — Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), along with Delaware Secretary of… Read more »
In case you missed it: Over the past several weeks, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) has been highlighting investments for Delaware communities up and down the state. She has been raising awareness on access to mental and behavioral health programs, the importance of mobile health care services, efforts to combat homelessness, and how she has worked to expand the manufacturing sector.… Read more »
WILMINGTON, Del. – Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester and U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (all D-Del.) today celebrated the announcement that Delaware will receive more than $100 million in federal funds to expand access to broadband. The funds are part of the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program created… Read more »
WILMINGTON, Del. – Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester, as well as U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (all D-Del.), announced that Delaware will receive $2.5 million from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand health care resources offered at Delaware’s public schools. This funding is the direct result of a provision co-authored by Senator Carper that… Read more »
WILMINGTON, Del. – Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester and U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (all D-Del.) announced a $4,953,697 grant award from Federal Transit Administration in the U.S. Department of Transportation to Delaware Transit Corporation that will be used to build the infrastructure to power the Dover Transit Center. The Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities program… Read more »
