Smyrna, Del. –Yesterday, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) traveled across Delaware to shine a light on how actions being taken in Washington are impacting her constituents in the First State. Blunt Rochester started the morning by visiting Laurel High School, along with Laurel School District Superintendent Dr. Shawn Larrimore and Laurel High School Principal Patrina Giles. Blunt Rochester toured the school and met with students from the graduating class of 2025. A member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Blunt Rochester has spoken out against the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education and recently sent a letter to Secretary Linda McMahon seeking answers

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee on Education and the American Family, and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), led 9 their colleagues in sending a letter demanding answers from Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on the abrupt and unprecedented mass firing of Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) employees. HRSA is the primary agency tasked with improving access to health care for vulnerable populations, including uninsured and underinsured children and families. The letter was also signed by Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Bernie

Washington, DC – Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement reacting to the first publicly held meeting of CDC vaccine advisors under HHS Secretary Robert. F. Kennedy Jr. The meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), was initially scheduled for February but was postponed, raising concerns about political interreference in vaccine policy under the leadership of Secretary Kennedy, a known vaccine skeptic. The two-day meeting began today. Senator Blunt Rochester led her colleagues in urging HHS to reconsider the original postponement of proceedings of the Advisory Committee. She also pressed HHS Secretary Kennedy on allowing ACIP Committee members to