WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following statement on Feb. 6, 2024: * * * Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), issued the following statement after voting against the House Republican Israel supplemental funding bill which failed to pass the House. "The supplemental funding proposal that came to the House floor today was not a realistic, bipartisan solution to the national security risks we are facing as a nation. Critically, the bill ex  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on Feb. 9, 2024: Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (both D-Del.) joined 15 of their Democratic colleagues in a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to act swiftly to finally close the detention facility at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In their letter, the Senators wrote that as a symbol of lawlessness and human rights abuses, the detention facility continues to harm U.S. nation  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement regarding Special Counsel Robert Hur's report following his investigation into the reported discovery of classified documents at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. and the Bidens' personal residence in Wilmington, Delaware: "I appreciate the thorough investigation conducted by   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: RED OAK, IOWA - Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is committed to hearing from Iowans in every corner and county of the state. On Friday and Saturday, Ernst visited Delaware, Buchanan, Black Hawk, Grundy, Audubon, Fremont, and Mills Counties to meet with small business owners, manufacturers, child care providers, student-athletes, and more. She also held a public town hall meeting in Audubon County to hear directly from  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Rep. Marc Molinaro, R-New York, issued the following news release: U.S. Rep. Marc Molinaro (R-NY-19) today introduced the Ensure Funding For Our Environment Act. This bipartisan bill will provide consistent and reliable federal funding for the Mid-Atlantic River Basin Commissions (RBCs), which protect clean drinking water and improve climate resiliency, flood mitigation, and wildlife protection in Upstate New York. Rep. Molinaro introduced the bill alongside and U.S. Rep.   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on Feb. 5, 2024: Today, Reps. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Yvette Clark (D- N.Y.), sent a letter to First Lady of the United States Dr. Jill Biden urging the Biden Administration to prioritize menopause research in its newly established and historic White House Initiative on Women's Health Research. The initiative will bring focus to the need for increased research on important issues that are tr  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following joint statement on Feb. 7, 2024: * * * Today, Representatives Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Nanette Barragan (D-Calif.), members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, along with Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety, issued the following joint statement on the announced Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fi  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jon Tester recently congratulated Livingston's Colter Sienkiewicz on his appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy. Sienkiewicz currently attends St. Paul's School in New Hampshire. He was a research assistant at the University of Delaware last year and attended both the United States Naval Academy Summer Seminar and United States Military Academy Summer Leaders Program in June of 2023. He partici  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement on Feb. 7, 2024: * * * U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) final soot pollution rule that sets newer, more protective national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter (PM) poll  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement: * * * U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today issued the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the Norfolk Southern train derailment and subsequent chemical release in East Palestine, Ohio: "One year ago, the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train led to the release of  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- 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, introduced the America's Conservation Enhancement (ACE) Reauthorization Act, which he co-authored alongside EPW Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.). The ACE Act will reauthorize important habitat and wildlife conservation efforts throug  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement on Feb. 8, 2024: * * * U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement regarding Special Counsel Robert Hur's report following his investigation into the reported discovery of classified documents at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. and the Bidens' personal residence in Wilmington, D  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on Feb. 8, 2024: Today, at the Senate Finance Committee hearing "Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Promise and Pitfalls," U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) highlighted the importance of implementing AI responsibly in the health care industry. During the hearing, Senator Carper emphasized the numerous ways AI could benefit this industry, including significant improvements to provider burnout and patient   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on Feb. 9, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) joined the Biden Administration, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and 17 Democratic Senators to announce a new National Security Memorandum (NSM) aimed at ensuring all U.S. security assistance is used in line with international law, including international humanitarian law. The NSM will, for the first time, require that, prior to the transfer of U.S.  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: DOVER, Del. - U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) released the following statement today after attending the dignified transfer of remains of three U.S. Army Reserve soldiers who perished in a January 28 drone attack on their base in Jordan: "Today, I paid my solemn respects to the memories of Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, Sgt. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, and Sgt. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, who made the ultim  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) issued the following statement after a bipartisan Senate working group released a bill to fulfill the president's supplemental funding request and make border security policy reforms: "I'm glad that Senators James Lankford (R-Okla.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) have worked together in a bipartisan fashion to propose policy solution  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) introduced legislation today to help more unemployed Americans reenter the workforce. The Building on Reemployment Improvements to Deliver Good Employment (BRIDGE) for Workers Act would give states more flexibility in administering existing reemployment benefits to help more Americans find good-pa  more