WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) signed a discharge petition to force a vote on H.R. 4121, the Right to Contraception Act. Last year, Blunt Rochester cosponsored this legislation, which would enshrine the right to contraception into federal law. A discharge petition is a maneuver that forces the Majority party to bring a bill up for a… Read more »
WILMINGTON, Del. — In Case You Missed It, last week, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) published an op-ed in the Delaware Business Times outlining her bipartisan work on fixing our supply chains. Blunt Rochester’s Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act, authored with Rep. Larry Bucshon M.D. (R-Ind.) passed the U.S. House of Representatives by an overwhelmingly… Read more »
Left to right: Chris Fraser, President & CEO of Westside Family Healthcare, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, Lucretia Young, AARP Delaware State Director
WILMINGTON, Del. — Today, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) hosted Chiquita… Read more »
WASHINGTON – On the heels of Memorial Day, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) sent a letter to the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure urging the committee to approve the resolution granting the medical leases for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers in Sussex County, Delaware and Southern… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Last week, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), member of the House Health Subcommittee, joined Reps. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), Annie Kuster (D-N.H.), and Angie Craig (D-Minn.) in sending a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office Comptroller General urging action be taken on a study on the accessibility and affordability of FDA-approved opioid overdose reversal… Read more »
DOVER, Del. – Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester and U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (all D-Del.) announced a $1 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the Downtown Dover Partnership to rehabilitate and revitalize brownfield sites in Dover.
These investments are from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which was co-authored and… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Rep. Larry Bucshon M.D. (R-Ind.) released the following statement after Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) introduced the Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act, the counterpart to their House legislation (H.R. 6571) introduced in December 2023. Last week, Rep. Blunt Rochester and Rep. Bucshon… Read more »
WASHINGTON — Today, in an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 390 – 19, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 6571, the Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act, authored by Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Rep. Larry Bucshon M.D. (R-Ind.). The bill was considered, and passed, by the House Energy & Commerce Committee by a vote of 44-0. The bipartisan legislation would… Read more »
WASHINGTON — Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) gave remarks on the House floor urging her colleagues to pass H.R. 6571, the Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act. The bipartisan bill was authored by Blunt Rochester and Rep. Larry Bucshon M.D. (R-Ind.) and is expected to be voted on in the House later this week. Below are her remarks as delivered and a… Read more »
In case you missed it, last week, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) highlighted investments for children, resources for seniors, and maternal health in Delaware. Blunt Rochester hosted Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Xochitl Torres Small at Lewes Elementary School to highlight critical investments in increasing healthy food options for children in Delaware. Blunt Rochester and… Read more »
