WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Congressman Anthony G. Brown (MD-04) released the following statement in response to inadequate Department of Defense research funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Institutions in President Biden's newly released proposed budget. The Department of Defense only requested $33 million, half of the average enacted level over the last five years: "There is a bipartisan  more

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Rep. John P. Sarbanes, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Representatives John Sarbanes (D-Md.), John Joyce (R-Pa.), Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.) and Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) introduced legislation to improve mental health outcomes for children and adolescents across the country by reauthorizing critical mental health and substance use programs through 2027. In October, the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry   more

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) praised the House of Representatives today for passing the Securing a Strong Retirement Act by a vote of 414-5. Cardin and Portman, longtime champions of retirement security, are cosponsoring companion legislation in the Senate. Cardin and Portman praised this commonsense, bipartisan bill, led by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Ne  more