WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: The Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship (SBC) held a field hearing, chaired by U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and joined by U.S. Chris Senator Van Hollen and Congressman Glenn Ivey (all D-Md.), highlighting the need for federal equity programs at Bowie State University, Maryland's oldest historically black university. The hearing, entitled, "Promoting Opportunity: The Need for Targeted Federal  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen took to the Senate floor late Tuesday to update their colleagues and the nation on the latest news from Baltimore and the recovery after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. They continued their push to fulfill President Joe Biden's commitment that the federal government pay the full cost of replacing this essential thoroughfare. Just over one month ago, in  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today praised President Joe Biden's nomination of U.S. Magistrate Judge Adam Abelson to fill a vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Judge Abelson has been nominated to fill the vacancy created when U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar took senior status at the end of April. "I'm excited to see Judge Abelson - known to be hard  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), and U.S. Representatives Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Nanette Barragan (D-Calif.), Jennifer McClellan (D-Va.), and Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) joined their colleagues in signing a bicameral letter thanking President Biden and Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Je  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt) and seven of their colleagues, including Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) in calling on U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to addre  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following statement on the solemn occasion of the Holocaust Days of Remembrance: "As we mark the Holocaust Days of Remembrance this week, I stand with President Biden's forceful statement: there is no place for antisemitism in America. The horrors of the Holocaust and of October 7th - the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust - m  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Cardin: "This is a disaster of national significance ... it is very appropriate that the cost share be waived."Van Hollen: "This is a moment for us to come together on a bipartisan, indeed a nonpartisan basis." U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) took to the Senate floor late Tuesday to update their colleagues and the nation on the latest news from Baltimore and the recovery after   more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) today praised President Joe Biden's nomination of U.S. Magistrate Judge Adam Abelson to fill a vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Judge Abelson has been nominated to fill the vacancy created when U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar took senior status at the end of April. "Adam Abelson has served the people of Baltimo  more