WASHINGTON, May 18 -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on May 17, 2022: * * * House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement this evening after the House passed H.R. 7309, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2022. "Today, I was proud to support legislation to reauthorize the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), which is one of the central pillars of our nation's commitment to ensuring that workers  more

WASHINGTON, May 18 -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on May 17, 2022: * * * House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after the United States surpassed one million coronavirus deaths. "One million Americans have now lost their lives to COVID-19, an almost unimaginable figure. Each of these million had a family, a community, a life of worth, and the potential to keep contributing to the lives and wellbeing of  more

WASHINGTON, May 19 -- Rep. John P. Sarbanes, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on May 18, 2022: Congressman John Sarbanes (D-Md.) and his Democratic and Republican colleagues on the House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced six bipartisan health bills that boost crucial health programs and launch a new initiative to foster biomedical breakthroughs, the Advanced Research Project Agency-Health Act (ARPA-H). These bills reauthorize the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) user fee   more

WASHINGTON, May 19 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Alex Padilla (D-Ca.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) praised the passage of S. Res. 641, a bipartisan resolution they introduced designating the week of May 15 through May 21, 2022, as National Public Works Week. The resolution encourages the public to re  more

WASHINGTON, May 19 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release and letter on May 18, 2022: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and 49 of their Senate colleagues today wrote a letter to President Joe Biden to urge the Administration's inclusion of Taiwan as a partner in the proposed Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF). In addition to recognizing Taiwan's importance to the United States as an important trading partner, the   more