COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 13 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined local business owners, rail union workers, and officials to call for swift passage of his bipartisan Railway Safety Act of 2023 two months after the devastating Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine. A few days before the derailment in East Palestine, a different Norfolk Southern train derailed in Delaware County. "Railroad company lobbyists spent ye  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on April 11, 2023: U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) joined Senators Schumer, Murray, Durbin, Sanders, and Blumenthal and Representatives Jeffries, Clark, Pallone, Nadler, Lee, and DeGette in submitting an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the case of Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, in support of the Bide  more

NEWARK, Delaware, April 14 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on April 13, 2023: Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) unveiled a comprehensive Jobs Agenda designed to strengthen Delaware's workforce, address workforce shortages, fix our broken supply chains, spur American manufacturing, and create more available and affordable housing. The package includes 7 separate pieces of legislation introduced by Blunt Rochester. Many of the bills are bipart  more

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, today released the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed greenhouse gas emissions standards for light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles sold in Model Years 2027 through 2032. "Today's announcement is about c  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement on April 11, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, today issued the following statement on newly proposed standards by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to protect workers and communities from exposure to ethylene oxide (EtO). "For years, I have called for greater o  more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on April 13, 2023: U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), founders and co-chairs of the Senate's Environmental Justice Caucus (EJC), today issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) selection of 17 eligible entities to serve as Environmental Justice Thriving Com  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), along with colleagues in the U.S. House and Senate, sent a letter calling on the Chief Justice of the United States to launch an ethics investigation into Justice Clarence Thomas's extensive billionaire-funded luxury travel and other outstanding allegations of misconduct. The letter comes after a bombshell ProPublica report exposed that Justice Thomas and his w  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) joined all Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats on a letter to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts calling on the Chief Justice to adopt the Judicial Conference's Code of Conduct and investigate a ProPublica report that Justice Clarence Thomas accepted and failed to disclose 20 years' worth of lavish gifts and luxury travel from prominent Republic  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on April 10, 2023: U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and other Senate colleagues have introduced a resolution commemorating the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, which was signed on April 10, 1998. In addition to celebrating the historic compromise that marked the beginning of a new era of peaceful political engagement in Nor  more