WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on Oct. 19, 2021: * * * House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement this evening after the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol voted 9-0 to ask the House to cite Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress. "The bipartisan House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol has been tasked with   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Oct. 19, 2021: U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship, and Senator Chris Van Hollen, along with Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin, and David Trone today applauded the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for approving the State of Maryland's request for  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Oct. 19, 2021: Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) joined Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-02), John Sarbanes (MD-03), Kweisi Mfume (MD-07), Andy Harris, M.D. (MD-01), Anthony Brown (MD-04), Jamie Raskin (MD-08), and David Trone (MD-06) in applauding the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for approving the State of Maryland's request fo  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Rep. C.A. 'Dutch' Ruppersberger, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Oct. 19, 2021: U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship, and Senator Chris Van Hollen, along with Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin, and David Trone today applauded the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for approving the State of Maryland'  more

TIMONIUM, Maryland, Oct. 20 -- Rep. C.A. 'Dutch' Ruppersberger, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Oct. 19, 2021: Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) today announced Owings Mills teen Katelynn Clarke as the winner of the 2021 Congressional Art Contest for Maryland's Second District. Clarke, a junior at the Carver Center for Arts and Technology, submitted a graphite portrait entitled "Creative Space." The piece, which depicts a girl drawing, will be displayed in the U.S. Ca  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Rep. C.A. 'Dutch' Ruppersberger, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Oct. 19, 2021: U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship, and Senator Chris Van Hollen, along with Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin, and David Trone today wrote to U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman ur  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Rep. John P. Sarbanes, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Oct. 19, 2021: Congressman John Sarbanes today joined Senator Ben Cardin, Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship, Senator Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today applauded the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for approving the State of M  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Oct. 18, 2021: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced the inclusion of over $17 million in direct federal funding for local projects across Prince George's and Montgomery Counties within the Committee's proposed annual funding legislation. The projects encompass a wide array of local and regional priorities, ranging from infrastructure improve  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced the inclusion of over $23 million in direct federal funding for local projects across the Baltimore region within the Committee's proposed annual funding legislation. The projects encompass a wide array of local and regional priorities, ranging from public safety to education to infrastructure to economic d  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced the inclusion of over $6 million in direct federal funding for local projects across the Eastern Shore within the Committee's proposed annual funding legislation. The projects encompass a wide array of local and regional priorities, ranging from infrastructure improvements to economic development to support  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced the inclusion of over $7 million in direct federal funding for local infrastructure and public safety projects in Southern Maryland within the Committee's proposed annual funding legislation. Overall, Senator Van Hollen included over $62 million in federal dollars directly for Maryland within the Committee'  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Oct. 18, 2021: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced the inclusion of over $7 million in direct federal funding for local projects across Western Maryland within the Committee's proposed annual funding legislation. The projects encompass a wide array of local and regional priorities, ranging from infrastructure improvements to economic develo  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) announced the inclusion of new language urging the General Services Administration (GSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to move forward on the proposed new FBI headquarters and requiring GSA to submit a report updating Cong  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Oct. 19, 2021: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Congressman Ami Bera, M.D. (D-Calif.) introduced new legislation to simplify health care enrollment for Americans. The lawmakers' innovative new bill, The Easy Enrollment in Health Care Act, will streamline health care enrollment for uninsured families and help close the massive gap in eligible but uninsured Americans. This legislation, modeled   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Oct. 19, 2021: Senator Chris Van Hollen joined Representatives Gregory W. Meeks and Michael McCaul in supporting President Biden's plans to welcome His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew this month. The bipartisan letter was addressed to the President with 180 additional co-signers. * * * Dear President Biden, With our many constituents in the Orthodox Christian community across the coun  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin, along with Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin, and David Trone (all Md.) applauded the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for approving the State of Maryland's request for a physical disaster declaration due to damage from Tropical Depression Ida. This decl  more