WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: 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 $35,046,616 in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funding for 17 Maryland housing authorities to renovate, improve and build public housing throughout the state. "Everyone deserves a safe and   more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on May 13, 2024: 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 $35,046,616 in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funding for 17 Maryland housing authorities to renovate, improve and build public housing throughout the state. "Everyone deserves a sa  more

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Rep. C.A. 'Dutch' Ruppersberger, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: 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 $35,046,616 in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funding for 17 Maryland housing authorities to renovate, improve and build public housing throughout the state. "Everyone deserves a safe an  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Rep. Brian Mast, R-Florida, issued the following news release: Rep. Brian Mast (FL-21) called on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to explain why they are diverting $831,000 meant for Florida water infrastructure projects to clean up the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland. "The Army Corps is going to take away money from water projects in Florida to rebuild the bridge that was struck and collapsed in Maryland without giving us answers about what effect it will   more

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on May 14, 2024: Today, as Paraguay celebrates the 213th anniversary of its independence, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.). Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) are introducing a Senate resolution welcoming President Santiago Pena of Paraguay to the United Stat  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on May 14, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his colleagues Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Chair of the Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation along with Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Dick D  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), both members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, joined with 9 other senators from disaster-impacted states in a letter to President Biden urging the administration to reevaluate and resubmit its request for supplemental disaster funding. In addition to Schatz, the letter was signed by U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Berni  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and John Fetterman (D-Pa.) announced their introduction of legislation to boost federal funding for state and local transit agencies to improve service, safety, and reliability for riders. The Moving Transit Forward Act creates a new federal funding program under the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration to provide transit agencie  more