Lisa Blunt Rochester

U.S. Senator · Delaware

Last updated

May 11, 2026

Next election

November 2030

Votes cast

1,357

On record

Bills sponsored

0

Including co-sponsored

Ledger entries

1,357

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Blunt Rochester supports electoral integrity measures that enhance ballot tracking and voting access safeguards while opposing citizenship restrictions and congressional observer designations that she views as potentially limiting participation or oversight mechanisms.

Blunt Rochester supports criminal justice approaches that emphasize treatment, victim protection, and evidence-based enforcement while opposing measures that expand criminalization through immigration consequences or restrict police accountability reforms.

Blunt Rochester demonstrates mixed fiscal policy positioning, supporting continuing resolutions and debt ceiling measures that maintain existing spending levels while opposing procedural votes on discretionary spending bills, reflecting a pattern of favoring spending continuity over engagement with detailed budget negotiations.

Blunt Rochester demonstrates consistent support for expanding healthcare access and funding across vulnerable populations, including children, veterans, and underserved communities, while prioritizing preventive care, research infrastructure, and cost transparency measures.

Blunt Rochester demonstrates strong support for education policies that expand access and resources for underrepresented student populations, particularly veterans and those facing financial barriers, while prioritizing institutional accountability and curriculum standards in educational systems.

Blunt Rochester demonstrates a consistent commitment to expanding access to capital and economic opportunity for small businesses and workers while supporting stronger labor protections and supply chain resilience.

Blunt Rochester demonstrates consistent support for environmental protection by backing regulatory measures that reduce pollution and emissions, strengthen conservation standards, and advance clean energy adoption while opposing efforts to weaken EPA authority and efficiency requirements.

Blunt Rochester consistently opposes restrictive immigration enforcement measures and border security legislation that would increase deportations, detention, and asylum barriers, while supporting family reunification initiatives.

Blunt Rochester supports robust national security measures including sanctions regimes against state sponsors of terrorism and proliferation threats, enhanced domestic security infrastructure, intelligence-sharing frameworks, and strong support for allied security interests, while showing less consistent support for economic pressure tactics targeting strategic competitors.

Blunt Rochester demonstrates strong support for civil rights protections across multiple constituencies, consistently advocating for expanded safeguards against discrimination targeting Jewish Americans and students, indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, and vulnerable populations including minors, while occasionally opposing measures that frame civil rights issues through competing institutional or procedural lenses.

Blunt Rochester demonstrates consistent support for expansive social safety net protections, particularly for vulnerable populations including children in foster care and residential facilities, homeless veterans, Native American families, and elderly Social Security beneficiaries, while opposing measures that would redirect welfare resources toward pregnancy centers.

Blunt Rochester supports expansive federal investment in technology infrastructure, data privacy protections, and cybersecurity modernization while favoring regulatory frameworks that balance innovation with consumer safeguards and national security interests.

Blunt Rochester votes consistently against constraints on government power and surveillance authorities, favoring expansive state capacity over civil liberties protections.

Blunt Rochester demonstrates a mixed approach to government accountability and transparency, supporting measures that hold individual elected officials accountable through censure and removal while opposing broader structural reforms that would increase agency transparency, regulatory oversight, and information disclosure standards.

Blunt Rochester demonstrates strong support for direct federal investment in infrastructure modernization and public resource development, consistently backing initiatives that expand broadband access, enhance transportation systems, preserve historic sites, and fund scientific research facilities, while showing particular commitment to leveraging federal authority to improve construction safety and engineering standards.