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NEWS: Senators Blunt Rochester, Curtis Launch Consumer Safety Technology Act to Strengthen AI and Blockchain Safeguards

September 11, 2025 Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and John Curtis (R-Utah), members of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, yesterday introduced the Consumer Safety Technology Act, bipartisan legislation to modernize consumer protection tools and keep American families safe in a rapidly changing digital world. “Our government must be able to keep up with new and emerging technologies, especially when it comes to consumer safety,” said Senator Blunt Rochester. “The Consumer Safety Technology Act would allow the Consumer Product Safety Commission to explore using artificial intelligence to further its critical goals. I am grateful to work alongside Senator Curtis on this legislation and look forward to getting it over the

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ICYMI: Senator Blunt Rochester Announces Comprehensive Housing Agenda, Charting a New Way Home for Housing Policy

September 11, 2025 In case you missed it, on Friday, September 5, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, unveiled her new legislative agenda to combat the housing crisis, titled, “The New Way Home Agenda: A Federal Framework to Address America’s Housing Crisis.” The agenda contains five pillars covering Blunt Rochester’s vision on how to get it done — “Breaking Ground: Expand Housing Supply,” “Laying the Foundation: Build Stronger Communities,” “Creating a New Blueprint: Make Housing Attainable,” “Raising the Roof: Unlock Innovative Housing Models,” and “Open New Doors: Invest in Smart Tax Policy.” Throughout the agenda, Blunt Rochester outlines

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NEWS: Senator Blunt Rochester Holds Spotlight Forum on Impact of HHS Vaccine Policies on Students and Families during Back-to-School Season

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

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