As Republican Bill Takes Away Health Care from Millions of Americans, Senate Democrats Offer Common Sense Improvements to Medicaid and Empower Federal Watchdogs to Fight Real Fraud Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined a dozen Senate Democrats, led by Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) as they released legislative proposals to strengthen and invest in the Medicaid program for children, seniors, Americans with disabilities and working families, as well as draft legislation to boost federal anti-fraud initiatives. “In this moment when Republicans are considering their ‘big bad’

Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) today introduced the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative Act, legislation that permanently authorizes and expands the Choice Neighborhoods Program. U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-05-Mo.) is leading the effort to introduce the legislation in the House. The Choice Neighborhoods Program is a transformative grant program within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that converts severely distressed neighborhoods into high-quality, mixed-use community developments. Established in 2010, the program has provided $1.8 billion in competitive grants to localities and community organizations for comprehensive neighborhood redevelopment across dozens of distressed communities. In a recent HUD report, researchers

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) released the following statement following her vote to oppose cloture on the Hagerty-Gillibrand Substitute Amendment to the GENIUS Act, legislation that would create a framework for stablecoins within the U.S. financial regulatory system.  “I appreciate the good-faith bipartisan negotiations that have taken place over the last month to attempt to improve this bill. While this legislation has improved, it still falls short. “As I mentioned in my statement last month, there are several areas of the bill that I felt needed significant improvement with the goals of rooting out corruption, protecting consumers, and protecting our financial