To watch the full exchange, click here. Washington, D.C. – Today, Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, questioned Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Education. The Senator pressed McMahon on her views on ensuring that all students receive a high-quality education, regardless of their religion, ethnicity, or race. Below are excerpts of her remarks. Senator Blunt Rochester: “Do you believe that any school benefiting from taxpayer dollars should be required to follow federal civil rights laws?” Ms. McMahon: “School should be required to follow the laws.” Senator Blunt Rochester: “Anybody getting taxpayer dollars?

  To watch the full floor speech, click here. Washington, D.C. – Today, Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, voted against the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Yesterday, Blunt Rochester spoke on the floor in opposition to this nomination. You can watch her full floor speech here, and see excerpts below: “On the eve of the vote for the nominee for the Department of [Health and Human Services], I stand before you, acknowledging that I will vote ‘no’ on the confirmation of Mr. Robert F. Kennedy. I stand

By banning the Department of Transportation from releasing previously approved National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure funds, Trump is again violating the Constitution while putting special interests above those of the American people Washington, D.C.—Yesterday, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, joined Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and her Democratic colleagues in demanding answers from Secretary of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy about the abrupt cutoff of funds for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program. The NEVI program, included in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, provides funding directly to states for installing public electric vehicle (EV)