WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on June 30, 2021: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) applauded President Biden's signing of their resolution into law to repeal the Trump Administration's so-called True Lender Rule through the use of the Congressional Review Act. This regulation, finalized in the last months of the prior Administration, allows predatory lenders more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on June 30, 2021: Wanted to make sure you saw news coverage of last night's House passage of H.R. 3005, legislation to remove hate from the Capitol. The legislation, sponsored by Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05), would require the removal of the bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who penned the majority opinion in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sanford decision, and replace it with one of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. The bill would also remove more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on June 30, 2021: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $7,939,842 in COVID-19 relief funding to expand access to community-based health services in Baltimore City and Frederick County. "This new round of federal COVID-19 funding will help improve the dissemination of public health information in minority communities," the lawma more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Rep. C.A. 'Dutch' Ruppersberger, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on June 30, 2021: The House Appropriations Committee today passed legislation that includes more than $558 million for improvements at Maryland military facilities championed by Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-02). The $279.9 billion Military Construction-Veterans Affairs funding bill for fiscal year 2022 now moves to the full U.S. House of Representatives for consideration. The bill funds construction of, and improvements, to family  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Rep. C.A. 'Dutch' Ruppersberger, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on June 30, 2021: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $7,939,842 in COVID-19 relief funding to expand access to community-based health services in Baltimore City and Frederick County. "This new round of federal COVID-19 funding will help improve the dissemination of public health information in minority communiti more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Rep. John P. Sarbanes, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Congressman John Sarbanes (D-Md.) today joined the Maryland Congressional Delegation in announcing $7,939,842 in COVID-19 relief funding to expand access to community-based health services in Baltimore City and Frederick County. "This new round of federal COVID-19 funding will help improve the dissemination of public health information in rural and minority communities," the lawmakers said. "We will continue working to secure additional federal resourc more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Rep. David Trone, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on June 30, 2021: Congressman David Trone (MD-06) announced that the Garrett County Health Department would receive $50,000 for the Garrett County Drug-Free Communities Coalition from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) to prevent youth substance use. The ONDCP announced 65 new and competing continuation grants for Community-Based Coalition Enhancement Grants to Address Local Drug Crisis (CARA) Program. The funding will enhance the more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Rep. David Trone, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on June 30, 2021: Congressman David Trone (MD-06) announced that he secured $534,977 in funding for flood mitigation in Frederick, Maryland as part of the FY 2022 Department of Homeland Security funding bill. The Motter Avenue Area Community Flood Mitigation Project will protect homeowners from property damage and reduce the risk of flood-related injury in the YMCA Flooding Area. Flooding is a common natural disaster and following a record setting hurricane  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Rep. David Trone, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on June 30, 2021: U.S. Congressman David Trone, along with U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, and Jamie Raskin (all D-Md.) today announced $7,939,842 in COVID-19 relief funding to expand access to community-based health services in Baltimore City and Frederick County. "This new round of federal COVID-19 funding will help improve the dissemination of public health information in mino more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Representative Jamie Raskin, Chair of the Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Representative Judy Chu, Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), held a roundtable entitled "Researching while Chinese American: Ethnic Profiling, Chinese American Scientists and a New American Brain Drain." Representative Raskin opened the roundtable, denouncing ethnic profiling, saying: "That is not acceptable in the United more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on June 30, 2021: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $7,939,842 in COVID-19 relief funding to expand access to community-based health services in Baltimore City and Frederick County. "This new round of federal COVID-19 funding will help improve the dissemination of public health information in minority communities," the l more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on June 29, 2021: Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-MD) and Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) and Congressman Anthony Brown (MD-04) joined in applauding the announcement of $3,999,807 in funding for the Prince George's County Fire and EMS Department's Office of Minority Health. This new federal funding will provide essential resources and tools to the department to better respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding comes from the U.S. D more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on June 30, 2021: U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) announced $7,939,842 in COVID-19 relief funding to expand access to community-based health services in Baltimore City and Frederick County. "This new round of federal COVID-19 funding will help improve the dissemination of public health information in minority communities," the lawmak more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on June 30, 2021: U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) released the following statement upon House passage of legislation to replace in the U.S. Capitol the bust of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney with one of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. "We strongly applaud the House of Representatives' passage of legislation to replace the statue in the U.S. Capitol of former Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, aut more PR