Click here to watch Senator Blunt Rochester’s full exchange with Chair Powell. Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, participated in a hearing titled, “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress,” during which committee members asked questions of Jerome Powell, Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Blunt Rochester’s questions were focused on full employment and our changing technology landscape, including the role artificial intelligence (AI) plays in the workforce. To watch the full hearing, click here. Key excerpts can be found below: On preserving the Fed’s commitment to full

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) held the Senate floor for one hour to raise awareness on the state of women’s reproductive rights post Dobbs v. Jackson, which overruled Roe v. Wade. She was joined by her Senate Democratic colleagues. To watch her remarks, click here or see a transcript below. Senator Blunt Rochester’s full opening and closing remarks can be found here. Senator Blunt Rochester’s opening remarks, as delivered Mr. President, there are moments in our lives when everything changes, when the world shifts underneath you and a new reality forms. These are moments when you remember exactly where you were, what you were doing,

The Trump Administration’s rescission of EMTALA guidance that reaffirmed nationwide access to emergency abortion care puts patients’ lives in jeopardy and sows chaos for hospitals and providers across the country Washington, DC – Today, on the three-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) joined Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), as well as seven of their colleagues, in a letter condemning the Trump Administration’s recent rescission of guidance that reaffirmed hospitals and providers’ obligations under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) to provide medically necessary emergency abortion care, regardless of where the patient lives. The letter, sent to Department