WASHINGTON, June 14 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), along with Reps. Annie Kuster (D-N.H.) and Angie Craig (D-Minn.), introduced legislation to ensure access to the overdose reversal drug naloxone for communities nationwide. H.R. 4005, the Naloxone Affordability Act, underscores how critical reliable access to naloxone is in our efforts to end the addiction and combat the mental health crisis. This comes on the hee  more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on June 16, 2023: Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper, Chris Coons, and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) announced $750,000 in federal funding to replace a portion of the New Castle County Hope Center's roof and invest in transportation support. Carper, Coons, and Blunt Rochester were joined by New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer and Division of Community Development and Housing for New Castle County M  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release on June 14, 2023: Today, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO), member of the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth, participated in the National Foster Youth Institute's Foster Youth Shadow Day, giving Micaih Lloyd from Wilmington, Delaware, an opportunity to shadow the Congressman for a day on Capitol Hill. Micaih was joined by 30 other foster youth and alumni from across the country traveling t  more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on June 16, 2023: In case you missed it, U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) published an op-ed in The Messenger today highlighting their bipartisan Countering Economic Coercion Act that would help the U.S. support partners and allies facing economic bullying by foreign adversaries. The bill would equip the president with new tools to reduce the impact of economic coercion by stre  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on June 14, 2023: U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today led a committee hearing to examine implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). HIGHLIGHTS: ON THE RECENT I-95 COLLAPSE IN PHILADELPHIA:  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on June 15, 2023, and a letter: U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today led 14 of his colleagues in a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan urging the agency to strengthen its proposed rule to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas producti  more

WASHINGTON, June 14 -- 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 (EPW) Committee, received the Foreign Policy for America Foundation's Legislative Achievement Award for his work to help ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, a global treaty to phase down the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). HFCs are super-pollu  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release: On June 14, 2023, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a hearing to examine the implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Below is the opening statement of Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery: "Before we begin, I wan  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee issued the following information for a nomination hearing at 2 p.m. on June 21, 2023, at 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building: Nominees * Ms. Kara C. McDonald, of Virginia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Lithuania * The Honorable Jack A. Markell, of Delaware, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plen  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on June 14, 2023: Today, at the Senate Finance Committee hearing "Anti-Poverty and Family Support Provisions in the Tax Code," U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del), a senior member of the committee, highlighted how tax credits like the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) are helping working families. During the hearing, Senator Carper noted the importance of better targeting the CTC t  more

WASHINGTON, June 14 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on June 13, 2023: U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) delivered remarks at the first-ever mental and behavioral health summit held in Delaware. Led by Lieutenant Governor and Chair of the Behavioral Health Consortium Bethany Hall-Long, the summit focused on bringing together local, state, regional, and national thought leaders, community advocates, business and labor leaders, and government officials to addres  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on June 14, 2023: U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), Co-Chair of the Congressional Chemistry Caucus, hosted a bipartisan and bicameral caucus event on the chemistry of olive oil in the Lyndon B. Johnson Room at the U.S. Capitol, featuring a presentation by Pat O'Hara, the Amanda and Lisa Cross Professor of Chemistry at Amherst College, and her husband, Rich Blatchly, Professor Emeritus at Keene State Co  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on June 15, 2023, and a letter: U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) led 28 of their colleagues in writing an open letter to wrongfully detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. The letter condemns his unjust detention by the Russian government and shows him their supp  more