WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, chairman of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 5, 2021: The United States Senate today approved a bipartisan amendment to expand and make permanent the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). The measure, which was sponsored by U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.), U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell (D-  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Aug. 5, 2021: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced more than $29 million in emergency federal funding to reimburse MedStar Health and Montgomery County Emergency Management for costs during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Throughout the COVID-19 pand  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Aug. 5, 2021: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced more than $29 million in emergency federal funding to reimburse MedStar Health and Montgomery County Emergency Management for costs during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Throughout the COVID-19 pandem  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Maryland, issued the following statement: * * * Congressman Anthony G. Brown (MD-04) released the following statement on the passing of Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO. "Workers knew they had a champion in Richard Trumka. He was a giant, the third generation of a long proud line of coal miners, a decent man who was thinking about working men and women every moment of every day. His sudden passing is a tragic loss for the international labor  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Aug. 5, 2021: Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05), Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone today announced more than $29 million in emergency federal funding toreimburse MedStar Health and Montgomery County Emergency Management for costs during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Throughout the COVID-19 p  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) announced that he secured nearly $4 million in federal funding for nine community projects across Maryland's 8th District in last week's House-passed appropriations package (H.R. 4052). "I'm very excited that the House has voted to pass robust investments in Maryland's Eighth District, bringing us one step closer to securing crucial federal funding for excellent community in  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Aug. 5, 2021: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced more than $29 million in emergency federal funding to reimburse MedStar Health and Montgomery County Emergency Management for costs during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Throughout the COVID-19 pandemi  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Rep. John P. Sarbanes, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Aug. 5, 2021: Congressman John Sarbanes joins U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, as well as Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today in announcing more than $29 million in emergency federal funding to reimburse MedStar Health and Montgomery County Emergency Management for costs during the COVID-19 pandemic.   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Rep. David Trone, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Aug. 5, 2021: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced more than $29 million in emergency federal funding to reimburse MedStar Health and Montgomery County Emergency Management for costs during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Aug. 5, 2021: U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Environment and Public Works Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee, today announced that five of his first round of Congressionally Directed Spending requests have received Senate Appropriations Committee approval. Totaling $45.83 million, the five projects will notch improvements in diverse corners of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, from   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Aug. 5, 2021: The United States Senate today approved a bipartisan amendment to expand and make permanent the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). The measure, which was sponsored by U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.), U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce Ranking Member Roger Wicker   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Aug. 5, 2021: U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) announced more than $29 million in emergency federal funding to reimburse MedStar Health and Montgomery County Emergency Management for costs during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic,  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, chair of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, issued the following news release on Aug. 5, 2021: Yesterday, Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Member of the Subcommittee, sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, seeking a briefing and information about serious allegations of  more