WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Rep. David Trone, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on Sept. 21, 2023: * * * Today, Congressman David Trone (D-MD), member of the House Budget Committee, released a statement condemning devastating funding cuts during the Committee's markup of the House Republicans' Fiscal Year 2024 budget resolution: "Today, we are 10 days from a government shutdown without any sign of progress towards resolution because Republicans reneged on the bipartisan budget deal they   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, DC -- Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) released the following statement today after meeting with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at the U.S. Capitol: "Today, I was pleased to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his second visit to the United States Capitol. We discussed the important progress that the people of Ukraine have made to repel Vladimir Putin's vicious,  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Sept. 21, 2023: Today, Reps. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), Katie Porter (D-CA), Nancy Mace (R-SC), Byron Donalds (R-FL), Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), and Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) introduced bipartisan legislation to increase transparency of mail-in ballots. The Vote By Mail Tracking Act would require ballots to include tracking barcodes and an official logo to certif  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats are lauding the Biden Administration's historic decision to begin requiring use of a social cost of carbon across government decision-making. A social cost of carbon is a science-based estimate of the damages caused by each ton of carbon pollution - including property losses, increased health care costs, and other harms that come with heat waves, drought, heavy rains, sea l  more