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NEWS: Blunt Rochester Joins Schiff, 30 Senate Colleagues in Effort to Protect Small Farmers

“The Food Security and Farm Protection Act would harm America’s small farmers and infringe on the fundamental rights of states to establish laws and regulations within their own borders.” This letter follows an announcement last week from the Trump administration seeking to undermine Proposition 12 and other state laws. July 15, 2025 Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) joined U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and 30 of their Senate colleagues in strongly objecting the inclusion of the “Food Security and Farm Protection Act” (S. 1326) in the next Farm Bill or in any other legislation. This letter follows a frivolous Trump administration lawsuit announced last week seeking to undermine state

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NEWS: Blunt Rochester, Clarke, Colleagues Join Academy Award-Winning Actor Lupita Nyong’o and Advocates to Mark Introduction of Uterine Health Legislative Package

July 15, 2025 Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke to mark the introduction of a legislative package aimed at advancing uterine health initiatives through a roundtable discussion attended by colleagues, leaders in the space, and Academy Award-winning actor, producer, author, and advocate Lupita Nyong’o detailing the four bills within the package: The Stephanie Tubbs Jones Uterine Fibroid Research and Education Act, The Uterine Fibroid Intervention and Gynecological Health Treatment (U-FIGHT) Act, The Uterine Cancer Study Act, and The Uterine Fibroids Awareness Month Resolution. “It is

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OP-ED: We’re Already Seeing Consequences of RFK Jr’s Vaccine Skepticism

“If Secretary Kennedy truly wants to restore confidence in our public health system, then he should let the science speak for itself.” July 15, 2025 Washington, DC – In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) wrote an op-ed in Newsweek today on the consequences of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s vaccine skepticism. As a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Blunt Rochester has been outspoken in her defense of following the science, not politics, when it comes to vaccines. She has demanded answers from Kennedy on his gutting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and asked pointed questions of Dr. Susan Monarez, the

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