Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led her colleagues in urging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to reconsider the postponement of proceedings of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). ACIP is a key advisory body that provides expert guidance on vaccines and immunization practices. This comes as an outbreak of the measles – a disease with a safe and effective vaccine available to combat is – is spreading across our nation. That outbreak has now claimed two lives, the first Americans to die of measles since 2015. She also pressed

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