WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined a group of her colleagues in issuing a letter to Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services Dorothy A. Fink, M.D. and Acting Director of the Office of Head Start Captain Tala Hooban expressing concern about the acute financial impacts and lingering uncertainty faced by Head Start programs in Delaware and across the country as a result of the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) memo that imposed a government-wide hiring freeze. While the White House later clarified that Head Start would not

  To watch the full exchange, click here. Washington, D.C. – Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, today pressed Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Senator Blunt Rochester, a former member of the House Health Subcommittee and the former Deputy Secretary of the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, pushed Kennedy on the depth of his understanding of key health care policy, his intentions when it comes to protecting women who need emergency care, and his commitment to addressing health disparities. Senator Blunt Rochester: “Thank you,

Washington, D.C. – Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) released the following statement after the confirmation vote for Sean Duffy to be the Secretary of Transportation: “As a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, I had an opportunity to have one-on-one conversations with Sean Duffy about critical transportation and infrastructure initiatives Delawareans rely on. We had productive discussions, and I voted him out of committee earlier this month.  “I was prepared to vote ‘yes’ on his confirmation today on the floor, but with Donald Trump’s decision last night to unconstitutionally freeze funding approved by Congress, I could not support Mr. Duffy’s nomination.  “What President