Senators also press for an update on any investigations into the killings of 6 other Americans in the West Bank 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 the West Bank

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 proposals, and efforts

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.), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today participated in a spotlight forum titled, “Mind Over Methane: The No-Brainer Climate, Economic, and Health Solution.” Blunt Rochester and her colleagues, led by U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of EPW, shined a light on the public health impacts of increased atmospheric methane, a product of the Trump administration’s attempts to generate energy through fossil fuels. To watch Blunt Rochester’s full remarks and exchange with the witnesses, click here. Her opening statement can be found