WASHINGTON, April 3 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on April 1, 2024: Today, Monday, April 1, 2024, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) announced $1 million in Community Project Funding for St. Michael's School and Nursery in Wilmington. This investment will help increase access to affordable child care in Wilmington, increase capacity for St. Michael's to serve more working families, and grow Delaware's workforce. This federal funding will b  more

WASHINGTON, April 2 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on April 1, 2024: Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, along with Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.), announced more than $2,000,000 in grants for Delaware through the U.S. Department of Transportation's FY23 Reconnecting Communities Pilot (RCP) Program. The RCP is a first-of-its-kind initiative to reconnect communities that are cut off from opportunity and burdened by past transpor  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: In Case You Missed It, U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, and Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) announced $1 million in federal funding that will go toward expanding the runway at the Delaware Coastal Airport in Georgetown. This funding is part of $154 million in federal funding secured by the delegation for community projects across Delaware. Read more in Cape Gazette (https://www.c  more

WASHINGTON, April 5 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: In case you missed it, Spotlight Delaware profiled U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), focusing on his role as a bipartisan dealmaker and foreign relations leader ahead of the start of his tenure as Delaware's senior senator. As Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, Senator Coons has been a foreign policy leader in the Senate and spoke with Spotlight Delaware   more

MIDDLETOWN, Delaware, April 3 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on April 1, 2024: Today, Monday, April 1, 2024, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) joined Middletown Mayor Kenneth L. Branner, Jr. and Dr. Kevin Spence with the Delaware League of Local Governments for a tour of a Middletown Wastewater Treatment Plant that is being updated with funding from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) - legislation that Blunt Rochester, alongside Senator Ca  more

WASHINGTON, April 5 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on April 4, 2024: U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today welcomed an announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that $20 billion will be awarded to eight entities from the National Clean Investment Fund and the Clean Communities Investment Accelerator - two compe  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) joined 255 Members of Congress in submitting an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States, two consolidated cases concerning the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) that the Supreme Court will hear this April. The Emergency Medical Treatment and  more

WASHINGTON, April 3 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) introduced a bipartisan resolution honoring Dr. Jane Goodall on her 90th birthday today that recognizes her legacy as an ethologist, conservationist, and activist. The resolution was also cosponsored by Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.). "On Dr. Goodall's 90th birthday, let us celebrate her unwavering dedication to animal  more