WASHINGTON, July 30 -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on July 29, 2021: * * * House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that the U.S.'s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 6.5% in the second quarter of 2021. "The 6.5% growth in GDP last quarter is very positive news for our economy. In fact, the past six months have seen the fastest growth in the U.S. economy in four decades, and our ec more PR

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on July 29, 2021: * * * House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement on House passage of a supplemental security appropriation bill approved by the Senate earlier today, sending it to President Biden for his signature. "Today, the House passed a supplemental appropriation bill approved earlier by the Senate in order to keep our commitment to the men and women of the U.S. Capitol Police to ensure they have the fun more PR

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on July 29, 2021: * * * House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after President Biden announced new actions to ensure more Americans get vaccinated, including asking federal employees and onsite federal contractors to attest to their vaccination status. "The consensus from doctors, researchers, and public health experts is clear: the more Americans who are vaccinated, the sooner we can defeat this viru more PR

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Congressman Anthony G. Brown (MD-04) announced that he had secured $16.45 million in funding for nine community projects in Maryland's Fourth Congressional District as part of the annual appropriations package. Congressman Brown secured the most community funding of any member of Maryland's Congressional delegation as part of the appropriations package. Funding was secured for education, public health, community improvement, and safety projects. "Our re more PR

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) praised the House passage of H.R. 4502, a funding package of seven Fiscal Year 2022 appropriations bills, including: Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education; Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration; Energy and Water Development; Financial Services and General Government; Interior and Environment; Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Transportation and Housing and  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on July 29, 2021: * * * Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) released the following statement today after President Biden announced new actions to ensure more Americans get vaccinated, including asking federal employees and onsite federal contractors to attest to their vaccination status. "The consensus from doctors, researchers, and public health experts is clear: the more Americans who are vaccinated, the sooner we can defeat this virus and return to norma more PR

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: This week, the House is considering appropriations legislation to fund the government for Fiscal Year 2022. Included in the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education bill is a substantial increase for full-service community schools, which play a vital role in closing the education achievement gap by providing comprehensive social services and programs to children and their families. The funding increase from $30 million to $443 million more PR

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, held a hearing on the restrictive voting bills currently under consideration in the Texas legislature, as well as how these proposals are related to nationwide voter suppression efforts fueled by baseless claims of widespread electoral fraud. "This zealous pursui more PR

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. C.A. 'Dutch' Ruppersberger, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger today voted in support of a seven-bill "minibus" appropriations package that makes critical investments in the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland's military facilities, local veterans and children. H.R. 4502 - which combines the appropriations bills for federal departments and agencies including Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Agriculture, Interior, Environment, Military Construction and Veterans Affair more PR

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. John P. Sarbanes, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Congressman John Sarbanes (D-Md.) this week voted to pass nine federal funding bills that will support several important Maryland priorities, including modernizing American infrastructure, protecting the health of the Chesapeake Bay, investing in clean energy and science initiatives to combat the climate crisis, expanding opportunities for students, creating good paying jobs and supporting small businesses, strengthening food security and nutrition pro more PR

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. David Trone, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: President Joe Biden signed Representative David Trone's bill, the Dispose Unused Medications and Prescriptions (DUMP) Opioids Acts, into law. Trone introduced the bill with Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), which passed the House floor on Tuesday. The bill was introduced by Senators John Kennedy (R-LA) and Mike Braun (R-IN) in the Senate and passed the Senate earlier this year by unanimous consent. In January 2021, H.R. 7105, the Johnny Isakson and Dav more PR

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. David Trone, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Representative David Trone (MD-06) hosted a conversation with Representative John Sarbanes (MD-03) on voting rights reform. Representative Sarbanes is the chairman of the Democracy Reform Task Force and the architect of H.R. 1, the For the People Act, which passed the House earlier this year. You can watch the conversation here. "H.R. 1 would bring integrity and honesty back to Congress while putting an end to voter suppression laws that hurt our democracy more PR

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. David Trone, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: The co-chairs of the Bipartisan Addiction and Mental Health Task Force, Reps. Annie Kuster (D-NH), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), David Trone (D-MD), and Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), hosted a virtual roundtable on pain management. "In 2020, more than 93,000 Americans died of a drug overdose -- this staggering loss of life is a tragic reminder of the urgent need to address the addiction epidemic," said Rep. Kuster. "A critical part of ending this crisis is re-e more PR

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), and Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.-2) are calling on the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) to better support Paralympic athletes at Olympic and Paralympic Games after denying reasonable and essential accommodations for a deaf and blind swimmer. With an understanding of the unprecedented restrictions placed on who may be in  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) announced the inclusion of provisions from their Reconnecting Communities Act, legislation the two Senators introduced alongside Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) to help remove harmful infrastructure that divides communities, such as the Baltimore Highway to Nowhere. In March 2019, a pilot program mirroring this proposal was originally authored by Senator Van Hollen, and included wi more PR