Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Medina v. Planned Parenthood which would allow states to prevent Medicaid coverage for care provided at Planned Parenthood clinics: “The Supreme Court’s ruling today is another assault on women’s rights and reproductive freedoms. Just this week, we marked three years since the disastrous Dobbs v. Jackson decision, which opened the floodgates on abortion bans and cuts to reproductive health services. This ruling strips access to critical care for people and is yet another example of what

Senators Will Delay Department Of Commerce Nominees Until States Receive Funding. Washington, DC –Today, U.S. Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) led over a dozen of their Senate colleagues in a letter condemning the Trump Administration’s reckless decision to rescind approval for states to receive their share of Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program funding. The BEAD program was created to connect families in the hardest-to-serve communities to high-speed internet and close the digital divide. The Trump Administration’s new guidance rescinded the final approval of three states, including Delaware and Nevada, and forces all states to redo burdensome steps in their processes, hindering states’ ability

Click here to watch Senator Blunt Rochester’s full exchange with Dr. Monarez. Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, pressed President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Susan Monarez, at her confirmation hearing. Following the abrupt firing of experts on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ panel, Blunt Rochester’s questioning focused on vaccine affordability for Delaware families and her VACCINE Act to protect trust in vaccinations across our nation. In a HELP Committee hearing in May, Blunt Rochester questioned Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on the