WASHINGTON, March 25 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on March 23, 2024: U.S. Senators Tom Carper, Chris Coons, and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) announced that they secured $153,949,827 million in funding for Delaware projects in the appropriations bill that passed the Senate early today. This funding will go to community priorities such as affordable housing, water infrastructure improvements, mental health support, childcare servic  more

WASHINGTON, March 25 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on March 23, 2024: U.S. Senators Tom Carper, Chris Coons, and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) announced that they secured $153,949,827 million in funding for Delaware projects in the appropriations bill that passed the Senate early today. This funding will go to community priorities such as affordable housing, water infrastructure improvements, mental health support, childcare services, edu  more

WILMINGTON, Delaware, March 29 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on March 28, 2024: Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) announced that preliminary Community Project Funding (CPF) applications for the Fiscal Year 2025 (October 1, 2024 - September 30, 2025) appropriations process are now open. The current preliminary deadline for complete applications is Thursday, April 4, 2024, by close of business. However, all guidance and availability   more

NEW CASTLE, Delaware, March 27 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on March 26, 2024: Yesterday, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) visited FUJIFILM Imaging Colorants, Inc.'s (Fujifilm) expanded inkjet dispersion manufacturing facility in New Castle to highlight her workforce development and supply chain resiliency efforts in Congress. Blunt Rochester toured the expanded manufacturing facility with General Manager, Melissa Toledo and Manufacturin  more

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on March 27, 2024: On Wednesday, March 27, 2024, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) joined Sussex County officials to announce $1 million in federal funding for Delaware Coastal Airport's runway extension project. This funding will go toward the environmental assessment and preliminary design of the runway extension to 6,000 feet. The funding is a part of $154 million in federal funding secured by Senators C  more

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following statement on March 27, 2024: * * * Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) issued the following statement following the news that former U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman passed away at the age of 82. "I thought the world of my friend Joe Lieberman, and I admired him as not just a colleague, but also as a husband and a father. I had the opportunity to chair his campaign effort in Delaware in 2004 which turned out to be a h  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on March 29, 2024: U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chair of the EPW Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), also a member of the EPW Committee, and U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) rel  more

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: WILMINGTON, Del. - U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) released the following statement on the passing of former Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.): "Joe lived his principles and dedicated decades of his life to public service. Through his son, Matt, I first got to know him many years ago when I was a law student in his home state of Connecticut. "Later, as colleagues, we traveled together on several mem  more

WASHINGTON, March 29 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) joined 12 of his Senate colleagues in introducing bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) through 2028. Led by U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and John Kennedy (R-La.), the legislation would also increase authorized annual funding for the program to $65 million. The North American Wetlands Conservation Act was orig  more

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on March 27, 2024: Today, Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) announced the bipartisan FEHB Protection Act to stop fraud within the Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) program, the largest employer-sponsored health insurance program in the country which covers eight million federal employees, retirees and family members. The FEHB Protection Act will codify Government Accountability Off  more