Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), joined Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of HELP, and Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Education and Workforce, alongside Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Congressional and labor leaders, in reintroducing the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act), comprehensive labor legislation to protect the rights of workers to stand together and bargain for fairer wages,

Washington, DC – Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) released the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s Joint Address to Congress.  “In a matter of weeks, this Administration has thrust our nation into a state of chaos, confusion, and uncertainty. While Americans are struggling to pay for groceries, the President will be hiking taxes on basic goods by enacting his tariff plan. As we struggle to fill critical workforce shortages around the country, this administration has fired tens of thousands of dedicated public servants – ranging from critical air traffic controllers to nuclear safety experts. All of this while humiliating and alienating our

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Chris Coons and Lisa Blunt Rochester and Congresswoman Sarah McBride (all D-Del.) announced their guests to President Trump’s scheduled address to a joint session of Congress. As the Trump administration works to gut federal agencies by summarily firing public servants, the federal delegation has invited impacted Delawareans as their guests. Senator Coons will host Rory Badger, a Seaford father and husband who previously was employed by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) office in Salisbury, Maryland. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) fired Badger last month without notice and without cause. Badger, a