WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following floor statement on Sept. 28, 2021: * * * Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) spoke on the House Floor this afternoon in support of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery and a link to the video. "Madam Speaker, first and foremost I want to thank my friend Mr. [Peter] DeFazio, chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He and his Members and staff worked long and late hours over the past two years, more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on Sept. 28, 2021: * * * Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) released the following statement today after Jarrod Ramos was sentenced to five consecutive life terms, without the possibility of parole, for perpetrating the deadly shooting at the Capital Gazette on June 28, 2018. "Three years after the mass shooting at the Capital Gazette that claimed the lives of Wendi Winters, Rob Hiaasen, Gerald Fischman, John McNamara, and Rebecca Smith, I hope that their more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Sept. 28, 2021: Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05), Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-02), John Sarbanes (MD-03), Kweisi Mfume (MD-07), Anthony Brown (MD-04), Jamie Raskin (MD-08), and David Trone (MD-06) today announced $1,048,475 in American Rescue Plan funding to assist educational institutions across Maryland in their COVID-19 economic recovery. "Our local museums, colleges, and univer more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Sept. 28, 2021: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $1,048,475 in American Rescue Plan funding to assist educational institutions across Maryland in their COVID-19 economic recovery. "Our local museums, colleges, and universities play a critical role in showcasing Maryland's culture, histor more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Sept. 28, 2021: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $1,048,475 in American Rescue Plan funding to assist educational institutions across Maryland in their COVID-19 economic recovery. "Our local museums, colleges, and universities play a critical role in showcasing Maryland's culture, histor more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Committee Members Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz sent a letter to Troy A. Miller, the Acting Administrator of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), demanding a briefing and answers regarding press reports of the inhumane treat more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Sept. 28, 2021: Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Committee Member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sent a letter to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Department of Corrections Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi requesting a briefing on the dangerous conditions facing staff and incarcerated individuals at the Ri more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Rep. C.A. 'Dutch' Ruppersberger, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Sept. 28, 2021: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $1,048,475 in American Rescue Plan funding to assist educational institutions across Maryland in their COVID-19 economic recovery. "Our local museums, colleges, and universities play a critical role in showcasing Maryland's c more PR

TIMONIUM, Sept. 29 -- Rep. C.A. 'Dutch' Ruppersberger, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on Sept. 28, 2021: * * * Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger today issued the following statement after the U.S. Postal Service notified him of a new Postmaster of Baltimore as well as a District Manager of Maryland. "Changes to the USPS' local leadership are welcome news. The buck stops at the top: for too long, my constituents have been waging a relentless battle to simply get their mail on time, if at all. Citizens have been going weeks with more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Rep. John P. Sarbanes, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Sept. 28, 2021: Congressman John Sarbanes (D-Md.) joined U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) in announcing $1,048,475 in American Rescue Plan funding to assist educational institutions across Maryland in their COVID-19 economic recovery. "Our local museums, colleges, and universities play a critical role in showcasin more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, issued the following statement after Cyber Ninjas released its "audit" report regarding the election results in Maricopa County, Arizona. "After wasting millions of dollars and stoking baseless claims of a stolen election, the partisan Arizona 'audit' found 'no reliable evidence' of more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $1,048,475 in American Rescue Plan funding to assist educational institutions across Maryland in their COVID-19 economic recovery. "Our local museums, colleges, and universities play a critical role in showcasing Maryland's culture, history, and art - se more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.) are urging the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to increase support for a critical runway expansion at Salisbury-Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY). The senators wrote to FAA Administrator Stephen Dickson Monday, detailing the urgency of the project and its role in "the airport's ability to maintain its important relationship with Piedmont Airlines, and to build on this relationshi more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: "The jury is still out on these changes at the Postal service. We don't just need a new local postmaster; we need a local postmaster with a plan and the full support of the Postmaster General of the United States," said Representative Kweisi Mfume. He added, "The devil is in the details; the residents of Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Howard County need to be assured that their service will improve and having new ideas and a plan based on recommend more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Sept. 28, 2021: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) today wrote to Secretary of State Antony Blinken to register their growing concerns over Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's defiance of basic democratic norms. His repeated challenges to the rule of law and promises to disregard rulings of his country's Supreme Court, among other hallmarks of Caudillos, threaten a rupture with co more PR