WILMINGTON, Delaware, July 12 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on July 11, 2024: Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester, as well as U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (all D-Del.), announced that Delaware will receive $2.5 million from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand health care resources offered at Delaware's public schools. This funding is the direct result of a provision co-authored by Senator Carper that was in  more

WILMINGTON, Delaware, July 11 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester and U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (all D-Del.) announced a $4,953,697 grant award from Federal Transit Administration in the U.S. Department of Transportation to Delaware Transit Corporation that will be used to build the infrastructure to power the Dover Transit Center. The Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities program pr  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on July 11, 2024: Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper, Chris Coons, and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) announced that Delaware will receive $2.5 million from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand health care resources offered at Delaware's public schools. This funding is the direct result of a provision co-authored by Senator Carper that was included in the Bipartisan Saf  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper, Chris Coons, and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) announced a $4,953,697 grant award from Federal Transit Administration in the U.S. Department of Transportation to Delaware Transit Corporation that will be used to build the infrastructure to power the Dover Transit Center. The Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities program provides federal fund  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on July 9, 2024: Today, bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Lisa Murkowski (R- Alaska), to extend federal programs that help support local fire departments across the country has been signed into law. The bill reauthorizes the Federal Emergency Management  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on July 12, 2024: U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) today celebrated the announcement that Delaware will receive more than $100 million in federal funds to expand access to broadband. The funds are part of the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program created as part of President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to inc  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on July 12, 2024: This week, at the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Hearing "Oversight of the Permitting Council: Improving Transparency And Coordination," U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) stressed the importance of public engagement in the permitting process for major infrastructure projects. Senator Carper, also Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, noted the impo  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today led a hearing on the state and federal response to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland. The hearing examined the unified response to the collapse of the bridge and the effort to reopen the Po  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release: On July 10, 2024, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee will hold a hearing on the state and federal response to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland. The hearing will examine the unified response to the collapse of the bridge and the effort to reopen the Port of Baltimore, as well as next steps in   more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on July 9, 2024: U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.), Ranking Member of the EPW Committee, along with Representatives Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), Ranking Membe  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) released the following statement today after meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and other Greek government officials, including Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexandra Papadopoulou, Ambassador to the United States Katerina Nassika, and Ambassador Anna Maria Boura, Director of the Prime Minister's Diplomatic Office: "As we c  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: Yesterday, U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) introduced a bill to establish a nonprofit foundation that would support the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) by bolstering public-private collaboration on U.S. technological innovation and competitiveness. Part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, NIST works to   more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Rep. Lloyd Smucker, R-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: * * * Twenty-six Members Oppose EPA Clean Power Plan 2.0's Impact on Grid * * * Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) and twenty-five colleagues have written a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expressing concern about the impact of the proposed Clean Power Plan 2.0 on the PJM Interconnection. These proposed rules will endanger electrical grid reliability for the PJM Interconnection, which s  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) chaired a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today on ways to make the civil justice system more accessible to every American. The hearing, entitled "Closing the Justice Gap: How to Make the Civil Justice System Accessible to All Americans," highlighted how millions of low-income Americans struggle to receive proper legal help for civil legal problems such as obtaining res  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: At the invitation of U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), Pastor Laura Viau of First and Central Presbyterian Church in Wilmington offered the Senate's opening prayer today as the Senate's guest chaplain. Her prayer is below: "Let us pray. Holy One, maker of all places and things, you know more than any of us that we humans are but one part of this complex, interconnected creation, and our lives are but  more