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Lisa Blunt Rochester

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Lisa Blunt Rochester is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district since January 3, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first woman and the first person of color to hold this position in Delaware. Throughout her tenure, she has focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and economic development, advocating for policies that support working families and promote social justice.

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Mar 1, 2021

Thank you for your leadership on a topic that I think is transformational in our healthcare system.

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Feb 17, 2021

We also strongly support a proposal championed by Representative Blunt Rochester--thank you, Congresswoman--to retrofit mission-critical public buildings around the country.

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Feb 8, 2021

Every part of our country is seeing the impacts of climate change, from the devastating wildfires ravaging the West, to the rising sea levels and higher temperatures right here in my home State of Delaware.

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Feb 5, 2021

To Chairman Scott and the entire Committee on Education and Labor, I thank you for the time and for your hard work. Mr. Speaker, as the former labor secretary from the State of Delaware, I am proud to support the National Apprenticeship…

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Feb 2, 2021

Like President Biden, however, I want to make sure that treatment isn't just affordable but that it is widely accessible and effective.

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Feb 2, 2021

I am preparing to introduce or reintroduce my bill, the Coverage for COVID-19 Treatment Act, to guarantee access to COVID-19 treatment with no cost sharing.

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Nov 17, 2020

Today I rise in support of H.R. 2610, the Fraud and Scam Reduction Act. Mr. Speaker, we have all received those calls and those emails--folks pretending to be from a Federal agency or law enforcement telling you that they need your…

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Sep 30, 2020

The economic upheaval we are experiencing from this pandemic has presented us with an opportunity to correct these injustices and rebuild a cleaner and more equitable country.

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Sep 30, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the health, economic, and environmental racial disparities in our society.

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Sep 30, 2020

In my State of Delaware, we are suburban, urban, and rural. And as is the case throughout our country, we are seeing families fall farther behind on their electricity bills.

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Sep 30, 2020

With clean energy, we have an opportunity to accelerate into the jobs of tomorrow.

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Sep 22, 2020

Unfortunately, Republican Governors continue to refuse to expand Medicaid in some States, as was mentioned, and the Trump administration has deliberately made attempts to undermine this law.

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Sep 22, 2020

now is not a time in a pandemic to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, this landmark piece of legislation.

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Sep 22, 2020

The passage of the Affordable Care Act ushered in a new era for healthcare and expanded coverage to more than 20 million Americans.

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Sep 15, 2020

As has been said, our Nation is facing a plethora of crises right now, the COVID-19 pandemic, all-time high unemployment numbers, and climate change.

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Sep 15, 2020

Right now we have an unprecedented opportunity to build our economy back in a cleaner, healthier, stronger, and more equitable way.

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Jul 27, 2020

The water that comes through that system also has to be healthy and safe to drink.

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Jul 27, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is shining an intense spotlight on health risks and health disparities across our country.

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Jul 8, 2020

It is great that it is a bipartisan bill. Delighted that it passed in the Senate.

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Jul 8, 2020

I have a bipartisan bill with Mr. Walberg and also our subcommittee's own Mr. Hudson, the Stop Senior Scams Act.

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Jul 8, 2020

the last thing any American needs is to have to worry about scammers.

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Jul 7, 2020

And I have always believed that there is an inextricable link between the environment in which people live and their health.

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Jun 29, 2020

Not only are mental health issues a crisis in our country, we couple that with an economic crisis.

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Jun 23, 2020

2020 is a defining year for our democracy. Facebook and the other platforms have a responsibility to the country to get their act together and to be a part of the solution and not the problem.

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