WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Sept. 7, 2023: U.S. Congressman Kweisi Mfume, Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Jamie Raskin, David Trone and Glenn Ivey (all D-Md.) today announced $8,790,108 in federal funding for the Maryland Energy Administration to modernize the state's power grid and invest in clean energy. The funding, authorized by the Infrastructure Inve  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- Rep. C.A. 'Dutch' Ruppersberger, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Sept. 7, 2023: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie Raskin, David Trone and Glenn Ivey (all D-Md.) today announced $8,790,108 in federal funding for the Maryland Energy Administration to modernize the state's power grid and invest in clean energy. The funding, authorized by the Infrastructure In  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) wrote letters to social media companies Meta and TikTok and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) about a dangerous social media trend, known as "subway surfing," which recently claimed the life of a young person in his district. "Subway surfers," who are often teenagers influenced by coaxing and sinister validation from an online community, film themsel  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Bipartisan senior members of the Senate Finance Committee are continuing their years-long push for accountability in the U.S. organ procurement and transplant system. New letters mark a powerful push to crack down on serious potential financial conflicts of interest and abuse of taxpayer money by several organ procurement organization (OPO) executives and current and former board members of the Associati  more