WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, U.S. Senators Chris Coons and Lisa Blunt Rochester (both D-Del.) joined Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) to introduce the Jumpstarting Our Businesses by Supporting Students (JOBS) Act, bipartisan legislation to help more Americans get good-paying jobs by allowing students to use federal Pell Grants—need-based education grants for lower-income individuals—to pay for shorter-term job training programs for the first time. Currently, students can only use Pell Grants for two- and four-year colleges and universities. By expanding Pell Grant eligibility, the JOBS Act would help close the skills gap by allowing people to access job training they

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee unanimously passed the Brownfields Reauthorization Act of 2025, legislation to reauthorize the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Brownfields program, and the Strategies to Eliminate Waste and Accelerate Recycling Development (STEWARD) Act, legislation to improve our nation’s recycling and composting systems.  The Brownfields Reauthorization Act of 2025 wasintroduced by U.S. Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the EPW Committee,andthe STEWARD Act was introduced by Chairman Capito, and U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of the EPW Committee, and John Boozman (R-Ark.). The Brownfields Reauthorization Act of 2025: “Cleaning up brownfield sites can be costly and

U.S. manufacturing sector contributes $2.65 trillion to the U.S. economy, employs nearly 13 million American workers & accounts for 10.3% of nation’s GDP WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee passed the bipartisan Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act, led by Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Committee, and Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), a member of the Committee. The bill would authorize the Department of Commerce to strengthen American supply chains for critical industries and emerging technologies by working with the private sector and U.S. government partners to anticipate and