Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, led 19 Senators in a letter to President Trump making clear how his chaotic, across-the-board tariffs are increasing housing costs for Americans already struggling to afford rent or achieve their dream of homeownership. Today’s letter follows last night’s Senate vote when almost every Senate Republican bent the knee to President Trump by voting against a resolution to end his

Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) joined Senators Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) in leading the bicameral reintroduction of the Assault Weapons Ban of 2025, legislation to revive a nationwide ban on assault weapons two decades after the original ban expired. The bill would ban the sale, transfer, manufacture, and import of military-style assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and other high-capacity ammunition feeding devices.  While the 1994 ban was in place, the United States saw gun massacres decline by 37% and mass shooting fatalities were 70% less likely. When the ban expired, deaths in a gun massacre rose 239%. A ban on

Senator Blunt Rochester’s full remarks at a press conference this morning can be found here.  Washington, D.C. —  During Second Chance Month, Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced the Clean Slate Act in the United States Senate, legislation to create the first-ever federal process to seal certain low-level federal records, including the automatic sealing of nonviolent federal marijuana offenses. The Clean Slate Act is bipartisan and bicameral, being led in the House of Representatives by Representative Lucy McBath (GA-6) and Nathaniel Moran (TX-1).  The Clean Slate Act has already been enacted in a dozen states across the nation, eliminating barriers for millions of people who were saddled with arrest