September 10, 2025 The full spotlight forum can be viewed here. Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Ranking Member of the Senate HELP Subcommittee on Education and the American Family, today held a spotlight forum on the impact of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s recent, unprecedented, and dangerous vaccine policies. The forum comes one week ahead of the HELP Committee’s hearing with the recently fired former Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Susan Monarez, who was removed from her post because she refused to comply with Secretary Kennedy’s harmful directives on vaccines.  Alongside fellow Senate Democrats, Blunt Rochester exposed how changes to

September 10, 2025 Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Jon Husted (R-Ohio) yesterday introduced the Recommending Artificial Intelligence Standards in Education (RAISE) Act. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is an original cosponsor of the bill. Blunt Rochester, Husted, and Cassidy all sit on the Senate HELP Committee. This bill supports states in developing academic standards for artificial intelligence for K-12 students. AI and technology literacy are essential to maintaining America’s economic competitiveness in the face of global adversaries like China. Today’s students will be tomorrow’s leaders, and we must make sure they have

September 9, 2025 Washington, DC – Today, Democratic Senators released a framework for market structure legislation. The group of Senators includes Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Andy Kim (D-N.J.), and Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.).  “The digital asset sector has grown to a $4 trillion global market. We owe it to the millions of Americans who participate in this market to create clear rules of the road that protect consumers and safeguard our markets. We also must ensure that