July 24, 2025 Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Chairman Tim Scott (R-S.C.), and Senators Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) and Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), all members of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, are leading an effort to increase private investment in affordable housing and other community development projects across the country. The Community Investment and Prosperity Act increases a statutory cap limiting banks’ investments in community development projects, which will unlock billions in capital for affordable housing, small businesses, financial education, and other economic development needs in communities that need it the most. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Dave McCormick (R-Pa.),

July 24, 2025 Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) today introduced the Senior Savings Protection Act, which will reauthorize Medicare Improvement for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) funding for beneficiary outreach and assistance for 5 years. This bill would ensure MIPPA grants remain available to support education and application assistance for those eligible for, but not currently receiving, valuable services that will lower their health care costs. Through this funding, states offer in-person and face-to-face counseling and education, eligibility screening, benefit explanation, application and enrollment assistance, application submission and promotion of preventive services. MIPPA programs have been critical in helping low-income older adults, people with disabilities,

Senators also press for an update on any investigations into the killings of 6 other Americans in the West Bank July 24, 2025 Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) today joined U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and 27 of their Senate Democratic colleagues in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Attorney General Pam Bondi calling on the Administration to conduct an independent investigation into the death of Saifullah Kamel Musallet, an American citizen recently killed near the West Bank town of Sinjil. The Senators point to the repeated lack of accountability in the deaths of other American citizens killed in