LEWES, Delaware, Oct. 29 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on Oct. 27, 2022: Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) hosted a roundtable conversation at the Margaret H. Rollins School of Nursing at Beebe Healthcare in Lewes on the impact of the nursing workforce shortage on Delaware's health care sector. In September, Blunt Rochester introduced the bipartisan, bicameral National Nursing Workforce Center Act, legislation that would bring localized, on-the-gro  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on Oct. 27, 2022: The Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) has been awarded an $809,000 federal grant to purchase one propane and three electric school buses for the Colonial School District through the federal Clean School Bus Rebate Program. Nationally, these awards are part of the first $1 billion of a five-year, $5 billion program created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, championed by Delaware's  more

DOVER, Delaware, Oct. 21 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) will join President Joe Biden at Delaware State University to get the word out about the administration's debt relief program for federal student loans. Borrowers can apply for relief through an online portal which provides up to $10,000 in relief to borrowers with federal student loans and up to $20,000   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release and letter on Oct. 26, 2022: Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are sharing documents and banking records obtained in the course of their multi-year investigation into the Biden family's foreign business entanglements with the Delaware U.S. Attorney's office, which has an ongoing criminal investigation into Hunter Biden. The production follows repeated attempts by the senators to ensu  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), co-chairs of the Senate Law Enforcement Caucus, sent a letter to Senate and House leadership as well as the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, urging them to include their bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Victims of Child Abuse Act (VOCAA) as part of the National Defense Authorizat  more