WILMINGTON, DE – Yesterday, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) congratulated the Delaware winners of the 2019 Congressional App Challenge (CAC), an app competition for students in high school and below. The winning team was Daniel Lee of Cab Calloway School of the Arts and Atharva Shanbhag of the Charter School of Wilmington. The team created the app MapShot. MapShot is an application… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C—Yesterday, Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) and Bryan Steil (R-WI) rolled out the Congressional Future of Work Caucus. Blunt Rochester and Steil, co-chairs of the Future of Work Caucus, joined representatives from the tech, education, business, and automotive industries at a caucus kickoff event.
“The future of work depends on us working together now. Technology,… Read more »
WILMINGTON, DE – Today, Congresswoman Blunt Rochester (DE-AL) announced that she has nominated 29 Delaware students for admission to United States Service Academies for the Class of 2024. Each year, members of the United States Congress are charged with nominating top candidates for attendance at four service academies: the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, NY; the U.S. Naval Academy… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE-AL) voted in favor of H.Con.Res. 83 – Directing the President pursuant to the War Powers Resolution to terminate the use of United States Armed Forces to engage in hostilities in or against Iran, issuing the following statement.
“Last week, President Trump’s impulsive and disproportionate strike against Iran put our… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE-AL) led the House Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) in requesting information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) about planned actions to help reduce the disparity in certain grant funding awards.
African-American researchers are less likely than their white counterparts to receive certain types of NIH… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE-AL) announced her intent to vote for the two articles of impeachment filed against President Donald Trump, issuing the following statement.
“Today, after careful consideration and review of these articles of impeachment, I have decided that I will vote to impeach the President of the United States when… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester voted to pass H.R.3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act, which will help bring down the cost of prescription drugs and level the playing field for American patients who are paying more for their medicines than patients in other countries. This bill gives Medicare the power to negotiate directly with drug companies, and… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE-AL) voted for the adoption of the Conference Report to Accompany S. 1790, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, issuing the following statement:
“Today I joined my colleagues to pass this year’s National Defense Authorization Act. The bill provides a well-deserved pay raise for our troops, implements… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE-AL), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, led seven of her House colleagues in requesting information from CMS regarding the Medicare plan finder tool. The letter comes as Delaware’s Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro issued a rare consumer alert about the newly-updated plan finder tool. The… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE-AL) and Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-5), introduced H.R. 5361, the Safe Drinking Water Assistance Act to strengthen federal and state efforts to improve the safety of our nation’s drinking water system.
“Every person in this country deserves to have clean, safe drinking water. PFAS and other contaminants in… Read more »
