WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) joined Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) to introduce the Servicemembers' Credit Monitoring Enhancement Act, bipartisan legislation to provide free credit monitoring for all servicemembers and their families. Currently, only active duty servicemembers and members of the National Guard are eligible for free credit monitoring  more

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) announced a grant of more than $1.2M awarded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to Sussex County Habitat for Humanity. The funding will go towards the organization's home modification services to provide older adults with safety and accessibility improvements that meet their needs. This  more

WILMINGTON, Delaware, April 26 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on April 24, 2023: U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.), today celebrated the more than $1.6 million in federal funding they secured for Delaware State University (DSU) through the federal appropriations process. "I am very proud to join Senator Coons and Congresswoman Blunt Rochester to deliver more than $1.6 million for Delaware Stat  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on April 26, 2023: U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the EPW Committee, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), also a member of the EPW Committee, today led the EPW Committee in advancing their bipartisan legislation to improve our nation's   more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release: The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee voted to advance two nominations for critical leadership positions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during a business meeting: Joseph Goffman to be Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation by a vote of 10-9 and David Uhlmann to be Assistant Administra  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following statement on April 26, 2023: * * * Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) issued the following statement after voting against the Republican Debt Ceiling Plan. "This plan - assembled and then changed in the middle of the night - does not represent the kind of good-faith negotiating that Speaker McCarthy claims to desire. Instead, this bill is riddled with concessions to the most extreme elements of the Re  more

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on April 27, 2023: Reps. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) introduced the Clean Slate Act, bipartisan legislation that would give Americans with low-level and nonviolent criminal records a second chance to participate in society fully. The bill's introduction coincides with National Reentry Week and "Second Chance" Month. The Clean Slate Act would remove major barriers for many   more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on April 26, 2023: U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today spoke on the Senate floor urging his colleagues to oppose a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to disapprove of a new rule by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides (N  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on April 26, 2023: U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today led a full committee hearing to examine stakeholder perspectives on improving coordination, predictability, and efficiency in the environmental review and permitting process to support a clean energy transition. HIGHLIGH  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on April 28, 2023: U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) today announced the award of $913,420 from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration to the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) for improving the Delaware Bayshore National Scenic Byway. "Home to   more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release: On April 26, 2023, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee will hold an oversight hearing to examine stakeholder perspectives on improving coordination, predictability and efficiency in the environmental review and permitting process to support a clean energy transition. Below is the opening statement of Chairman Tom Carper (D-De  more

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on April 27, 2023: Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement after he cast his vote on S.J. Res. 4, a bicameral measure that would seek to remove a barrier to enshrining the Equal Rights Amendment in the U.S. Constitution. Senator Carper is a co-sponsor of the legislation. "At a time when women's freedoms are currently under threat nationwide, it is more important than ever to ensure th  more

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following statement on April 27, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) released the following statement today after Republic of Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol addressed a joint meeting of U.S. Congress. "President Yoon Suk Yeol's address to Congress underscored the importance of the U.S.-South Korea alliance, which serves as a foundation for security in East Asia. As President Yoon said, our close economic ties and   more

DOVER, Delaware, April 26 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on April 25, 2023: U.S. Senator Chris Coons welcomed 140 high school juniors and seniors from 20 different schools across all three Delaware counties to his annual Delegation Youth Conference at Delaware State University alongside U.S. Senator Tom Carper and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) yesterday. The students spent the morning engaging with their federal elected officials in to  more

WASHINGTON, April 26 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led a letter to IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel urging the agency to take action to simplify the tax filing process and expand access to free e-filing options. With recent investments from the Inflation Reduction Act, the agency has the funding to modernize and help restore confidence in the integrity of the U.S. tax system. The IRS  more

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on April 27, 2023: U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), James Risch (R-Idaho), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution today that condemns the human rights record of the government of Eswatini and the killing of Eswatini human rights activist Thulani Maseko in January. Today's resolution urges Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen to co  more