WASHINGTON, July 29 -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following floor statement: House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) spoke on the House Floor this afternoon in support of H.R. 4346, the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2022. Below are excerpts from his remarks and a link to the video: Click here (https://www.facebook.com/LeaderHoyer/videos/358514112605286/) to watch the video. "Let's build this institution into the kind of institution that Americans want  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on July 28, 2021: * * * House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement following the Biden Administration's "Buy American" rule that would adjust federal procurement policies to increase the threshold of U.S.-created content in products bought by the federal government, which will support American businesses and create jobs for American workers: "I applaud President  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on July 28, 2021: House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement tonight after the Senate voted to move forward with consideration of the bipartisan infrastructure deal. "I join in applauding President Biden and Senate leaders for their efforts to reach this step tonight and advance a bipartisan process toward enacting an infrastructure package into law. Our count  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following joint statement with House Democratic Caucus Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York, on July 28, 2021: * * * House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) and House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) released the following statement today after the House passed the 2022 Fiscal Year Legislative Branch appropriations bill, which raises the Member Representational Allowance to allow for an increase in Congres  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following floor statement on July 28, 2021: * * * Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) spoke on the House Floor last night in support of his amendment to the Financial Services and General Government Appropriation Act, which will move through the House as part of the appropriations minibus, to fund the Help America Vote Act College Poll Worker Program. Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery and a link to the video: Click  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Rep. David Trone, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Representative David Trone (D-MD) announced that his bipartisan legislation, the Dispose Unused Medications and Prescriptions (DUMP) Opioids Acts, passed the House floor and is now headed to the President's desk for signature. Trone introduced the bill with Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA). The bill was introduced by Senators John Kennedy (R-LA) and Jon Tester (D-MT) in the Senate and passed the Senate e  more

WASHINGTON, July 28 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, chairman of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, issued the following news release on July 27, 2021: U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today issued a statement after the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) Program reached a new milestone of successfully awarding more than $7.5 billion to more than 10,000 ve  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following statement: * * * U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, released the following statement on the bipartisan infrastructure package. "We all may not agree on how our federal investments should be prioritized, but this bipartisan agreement shows the nation that we can work together to face the generational challenges of imp  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on July 28, 2021: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) today reintroduced legislation that aims to address the needs of the offshore wind industry and train new and incumbent workers through a new grant program. The legislation first directs the Department of Energy to identify the offshore wind industr  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and a bipartisan group of lawmakers issued a joint statement in response to the breakdown of the April 19th agreement reached earlier this year to address the political crisis in Georgia. "We are very discouraged by recent developments in Georgia, which undermine the reform efforts agreed to in the April 19 agreement. The United States, in partnership with the Euro  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and U.S. Representative Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) applauded the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) decision to move forward on reinstating practices to collect data on broadcast workforce diversity. The FCC is required by law to collect this information, but failed to do so under the Trump Administration and former Chairman Ajit Pai. The decision to move forward  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, chairman of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, issued the following news release on July 28, 2021: U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) today introduced the SBIC Working Group Act of 2021--legislation to make the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA's) Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) Program more equitable. An SBIC is   more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) announced the inclusion of provisions from their Reconnecting Communities Act, legislation the two Senators introduced alongside Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) to help remove harmful infrastructure that divides communities, such as the Baltimore Highway to Nowhere. In March 2019, a pilot program mirroring this proposal was originally authored by Se  more