Washington, DC – In case you missed it, U.S. Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the Validating and Advancing Clinical Consensus through Independent Nonpartisan Evaluation (VACCINE) Act, legislation that would protect vaccine science and integrity by strengthening protections for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The legislation would prevent the baseless termination of ACIP members and direct an immediate reappointment of members on the advisory committee who were recently fired. This legislation comes after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s unprecedented termination of all the members of the ACIP committee without cause, a move

The ROAD to Housing Act Includes Three of Blunt Rochester’s Housing Bills Click here to watch Senator Blunt Rochester’s full remarks at the markup. Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) celebrated the progress of the ROAD to Housing Act of 2025, which was marked up today in a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee executive session. The bipartisan ROAD to Housing Act is a landmark housing package that would spur the development of housing across the nation and bring down costs. It would be a critical first step towards boosting housing supply, addressing soaring housing costs, reducing homelessness, and promoting the American dream of homeownership. This represents

Senators lay out needed humanitarian and diplomatic next steps in letter to Middle East Special Envoy and Secretary of State after latest round of ceasefire talks faltered last week Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) joined a broad group of 39 Senators, led by Senators Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawai’i), Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) in expressing unified alarm about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, called for the large-scale expansion of humanitarian aid, and urged the Trump administration to resume diplomatic efforts to secure a ceasefire agreement and end the war. “The acute humanitarian crisis in Gaza is also unsustainable and