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WASHINGTON – This week, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) voted to restore critical protections for employees, consumers, and the environment that were gutted by the Trump Administration.  The House took this important action via three Resolutions of Disapproval under the Congressional Review Act: S.J. Res. 13, S.J. Res. 14 and S.J. Res. 15. Today, Blunt Rochester was at the White House with a bipartisan group of lawmakers as President Biden signed all three resolutions into law.

“One of my top priorities since coming to Congress has been protecting the health and safety of Delawareans along with securing protections for our environment,” said Blunt Rochester.  “That is why I voted to end three Trump-era policies that inflicted serious harm to Americans’ health and financial security while jeopardizing environmental sustainability.  I was proud to join President Biden as he signed all three of these resolutions, signaling his continued efforts to secure the sustainability of our environment as we build back better.”

S.J. Res. 13 strengthens the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s ability to protect working people against discrimination.  By ending the damaging Trump Conciliation Rule, this resolution will make it easier for victims of unlawful discrimination to seek legal recourse.

S.J. Res. 14 eliminates the Trump Administration’s predatory “True Lender” rule, which allows predatory lenders like payday lenders to partner with banks to bypass state laws that protect consumers from high-interest rates.  Reversing this harmful policy will ensure lenders abide by state interest rate caps – protecting families, especially in communities of color and women-led households, from being charged unreasonably high-interest rates that often reach triple digits. 

S.J. Res. 15 restores Obama-era protections against dangerous methane emissions, which have 80 times the warming effects than carbon dioxide, from the oil and gas industry, which the Trump Administration gutted.  This legislation has bipartisan support and will reinstate robust Clean Air Act pollution standards and make a significant difference for public health and in the fight against the climate crisis.

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