WASHINGTON, April 1 -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following floor statement on March 31, 2022: * * * House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) spoke on the House Floor this afternoon urging support for H.R. 6338, the Affordable Insulin Now Act. Below are his remarks. "Madam Speaker, I want to thank Reps. Craig, Kildee, and McBath for their leadership on this bill. They have long been champions of making health care and prescription medications accessible and aff  more

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following floor statement: * * * Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) spoke on the House Floor this afternoon urging support for H.R. 6338, the Affordable Insulin Now Act. Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery and a link to the video. "Madam Speaker, I want to thank Reps. Craig, Kildee, and McBath for their leadership on this bill. They have long been champions of making health care and prescription medications accessib  more

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following remarks: * * * Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) delivered the following remarks at the National Fair Housing Alliance Conference titled: Closing the Gap: Challenges and Opportunities for People & Communities of Color. Below are excerpts of his remarks. "There are a lot of women in this room. I've got my list of people to recognize and they are all women. But I want to recognize some of those women, first of all, my  more

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Rep. John P. Sarbanes, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on March 31, 2022: Congressman John Sarbanes (D-Md.) today voted to pass legislation which would cap out-of-pocket costs for insulin - a lifesaving drug that millions of American rely on every day - at $35 per month for Americans covered by private health insurance plans or Medicare Part D. This legislation, the Affordable Insulin Now Act (H.R. 6833), would take long-overdue action to curb skyrocketing   more

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, chairman of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, issued the following news release on March 31, 2022: U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today lauded the Biden Administration's announcement that it will extend the 7(a) Community Advantage Pilot Program for an additional 2 years until September 30, 2024. The pilot program was previously set to end in September 2022. "Ca  more

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) announced the U.S. Army's recognition of Specialist (SPC) Ronald Dolecki, a veteran residing in Huntingtown, Maryland, with a Prisoner of War (POW) Medal honoring his military service in Ethiopia. While on a mapping mission in Ethiopia in 1965, Dolecki was captured by armed, uniformed members of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF). He suffered under brutal condition  more

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on March 31, 2022: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will release an additional 35,000 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for the second half of fiscal year 2022. These visas are vital to the small businesses that make up Maryland's crab and seafood industries, and the supplemental release follows efforts from  more

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will release an additional 35,000 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for the second half of fiscal year 2022. These visas are vital to the small businesses that make up Maryland's crab and seafood industries, and the supplemental release follows efforts from the Senators to press   more

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) in sending a letter urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power to press international donors at the United Nations pledging conference to fulfill the current $3.8 billion funding gap for humanitarian aid for Afghanistan and to ensure that aid can re  more