Washington, DC – Today, Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) led the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in a hearing on Daylight Savings time. The full committee hearing, titled “If I Could Turn Back Time: Should We Lock the Clock?” examined the various issues around whether the country should continue “springing forward” and “falling back” each year with time. The committee heard from experts, including Mr. Scott Yates, Founder of Lock the Clock Movement, Mr. Jay Karen, Chief Executive Officer, National Golf Course Owners Association, Dr. Karin Johnson, a practicing physician and professor of neurology at the UMass Chan School of Medicine Baystate, on behalf of the American Academy

Washington, DC – Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), John Fetterman (D-Pa.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Housing Supply Frameworks Act. This legislation is the first bill led and introduced by Blunt Rochester as a member of the United States Senate. The Housing Supply Frameworks Act (S.1299) will provide resources to help communities rehaul their zoning and land use regulations. By channeling national expertise, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will provide a new framework to assist localities in breaking down barriers and increasing the supply of affordable housing across income levels. The bill was introduced in the House by Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen (D-CO-07)

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, joined U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) and U.S. Representative Donald Norcross (D-NJ) to reintroduce the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act, bicameral legislation to guarantee the right of public sector employees to organize, act concertedly, and bargain collectively in states that currently do not afford these basic protections. This comes at a critical time, after President Trump’s recent executive order ended collective bargaining for over a million federal workers. “As the granddaughter of union steelworkers and Delaware’s former Secretary of Labor, I know the power workers have when