July 24, 2025 Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) today introduced the Senior Savings Protection Act, which will reauthorize Medicare Improvement for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) funding for beneficiary outreach and assistance for 5 years. This bill would ensure MIPPA grants remain available to support education and application assistance for those eligible for, but not currently receiving, valuable services that will lower their health care costs. Through this funding, states offer in-person and face-to-face counseling and education, eligibility screening, benefit explanation, application and enrollment assistance, application submission and promotion of preventive services. MIPPA programs have been critical in helping low-income older adults, people with disabilities,

Senators also press for an update on any investigations into the killings of 6 other Americans in the West Bank July 24, 2025 Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) today joined U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and 27 of their Senate Democratic colleagues in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Attorney General Pam Bondi calling on the Administration to conduct an independent investigation into the death of Saifullah Kamel Musallet, an American citizen recently killed near the West Bank town of Sinjil. The Senators point to the repeated lack of accountability in the deaths of other American citizens killed in

July 24, 2025 Click here to watch Senator Blunt Rochester’s full remarks and exchange with the witnesses. Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee’s Subcommittee on Education & the American Family, today participated in a spotlight forum titled, “Robbing Our Students’ Futures: The Indefensible Attacks on Public Education.” Blunt Rochester and her colleagues, led by U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), discussed the multitude of harms the Trump administration has caused to K-12 education. Amidst the administration’s cancelling of grants mid-cycle, withholding of nearly $6 billion in education funds meant to support student achievement, disastrous budget