WASHINGTON, July 8 -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on July 7, 2021, on the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise: "I join in mourning the death of Haitian President Moise and am praying for the First Lady. Assassinations and political violence are never acceptable. "The perpetrators must be brought to justice, and I urge calm in the wake of this shocking event. Haitians have struggled for generations to create a secure and stable democracy. "The use of violence to settle differences more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, July 8 -- Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Gwen Levi was brought back to jail for violating her parole. The 76-year-old grandmother was out of touch for two hours while taking a computer class. She had served 16 years of a 24-year sentence and was transitioned to home confinement to prevent the spread of COVID-19. "Today, mercy and compassion has won the day. Gwen Levi has been granted compassionate release from prison. Her case has captured imaginations far and wide because of the way in  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), co-chairs of the Atlantic Council's Colombia Task Force, along with Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the SFRC Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, led a letter Wednesday to President Joe Biden reaffirming Congressional support for the U.S.-Colombia bilateral rel more PR

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urging the Department of the Treasury to provide crucial flexibility to state and local governments in the use of American Rescue Plan funds in order to help close the digital divide and ensure families can afford broadband. Under the American Rescue Plan, state and local govern more PR

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) filed a brief in a major campaign finance case before the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit calling to restore judicial oversight over the broken Federal Elections Commission (FEC) in the wake of Citizens United. The senators, who have experienced firsthand the post-Citizens United deluge of po more PR

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Ahead of the ninth anniversary of Cuban political reformer Oswaldo Paya's suspicious death, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), along with Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Mark Warner (D-VA), and Ted Cruz (R-TX), urged the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to advance its efforts on this case without further delay. "We hope the Commission's unique role in such matters will help advance such a more PR

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) released their requests for Congressionally Directed Spending for projects under the Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Subcommittee for Fiscal Year 2022. The Senators' requests will help strengthen local criminal justice initiatives and support scientific research at institutions across our state. "Team Maryland continues to seek every available federal resource to meet the requireme more PR

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) joined Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and 20 of their Senate colleagues in urging Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to expand student debt relief in the Department's upcoming higher education rulemaking. In a letter to Secretary Cardona, the members highlighted the need for policies that improve and expand our exis more PR

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Card (both D-Md.) have submitted their first requests in a series for Fiscal Year 2022 to the Senate Appropriations Committee for Congressionally Directed Spending for Community Projects. This marks the first time since 2010 that the Senate has permitted such requests, which, under new guidelines, must meet strict transparency and funding requirements. In this first round, to the Energy and Water Development Subco more PR

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) joined Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and 20 of their Senate colleagues in urging Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to expand student debt relief in the Department's upcoming higher education rulemaking. In a letter to Secretary Cardona, the members highlighted the need for policies that improve and expand our exi more PR