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NEWS: Blunt Rochester, Clarke, Colleagues Join Academy Award-Winning Actor Lupita Nyong’o and Advocates to Mark Introduction of Uterine Health Legislative Package
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke to mark the introduction of a legislative package aimed at advancing uterine health initiatives through a roundtable discussion attended by colleagues, leaders in the space, and Academy Award-winning actor, producer, author, and advocate Lupita Nyong’o detailing the four bills within the package: The Stephanie Tubbs Jones Uterine Fibroid Research and Education Act, The Uterine Fibroid Intervention and Gynecological Health Treatment (U-FIGHT) Act, The Uterine Cancer Study Act, and The Uterine Fibroids Awareness Month Resolution. “It is past time that
Op-Ed: We’re Already Seeing Consequences of RFK Jr’s Vaccine Skepticism
“If Secretary Kennedy truly wants to restore confidence in our public health system, then he should let the science speak for itself.” Washington, DC – In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) wrote an op-ed in Newsweek today on the consequences of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s vaccine skepticism. As a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Blunt Rochester has been outspoken in her defense of following the science, not politics, when it comes to vaccines. She has demanded answers from Kennedy on his gutting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and asked pointed questions of Dr. Susan Monarez, the nominee for Director
NEWS: Delaware’s congressional delegation, local leaders sound the alarm on cuts to food assistance in Republican budget bill
NEWARK, Del. – U.S. Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester and Chris Coons, and U.S. Representative Sarah McBride (all D-Del.) today joined healthcare providers, food security advocates, environmental leaders, and working Delawareans at the Food Bank of Delaware to denounce the Republican budget bill signed into law by President Trump last week that will take food assistance away from as many as 37,000 Delawareans. The Republican budget bill signed into law on July 4 contains severe cuts to crucial food and healthcare programs in order to rig the tax code even more in favor of the ultra-wealthy, including cutting $186 billion from food assistance programs for vulnerable Americans. Those seeking assistance