Washington, D.C. – Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) released the following statement:  “As someone, like many in Delaware, who has seen the painful impacts of addiction in my family and as the former Deputy Secretary of Health and Social Services in our state, I approach the opioid crisis from a wholistic view. I believe we need a comprehensive approach that includes education, prevention, treatment, and interdiction. I believe the Halt Fentanyl Act falls far short of that, and does not get at the root causes of the epidemic nor address the pain individuals feel day to day.  “For the first time since 2018, there has been

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led her colleagues in urging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to reconsider the postponement of proceedings of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). ACIP is a key advisory body that provides expert guidance on vaccines and immunization practices. This comes as an outbreak of the measles – a disease with a safe and effective vaccine available to combat is – is spreading across our nation. That outbreak has now claimed two lives, the first Americans to die of measles since 2015. She also pressed

Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), joined Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of HELP, and Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Education and Workforce, alongside Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Congressional and labor leaders, in reintroducing the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act), comprehensive labor legislation to protect the rights of workers to stand together and bargain for fairer wages,