WASHINGTON, March 21 -- Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Congressmen Anthony G. Brown, Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie B. Raskin and David Trone (all D-MD) called on the National Guard Inspector General to investigate bias in the Maryland National Guard. According to Maryland Army National Guard Data from 2017 to 2021, Black Officer Candidate School candidates were almost twice as likely to be dismissed as white candidate more PR

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- Rep. C.A. 'Dutch' Ruppersberger, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Congressmen Anthony G. Brown, Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie B. Raskin and David Trone (all D-MD) called on the National Guard Inspector General to investigate bias in the Maryland National Guard. According to Maryland Army National Guard Data from 2017 to 2021, Black Officer Candidate School candidates were almost twice as likely to be dismissed as w more PR

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment issued the following statement by Rep. David Trone, D-Maryland, at a member day hearing on March 16, 2022, on environmental infrastructure: * * * Thank you Chairwoman Napolitano and Ranking Member Rouzer for the opportunity to submit testimony to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure's Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. As you draft the Water Resources  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 21 -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on March 19, 2022: * * * House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today on the passing of Representative Don Young, the Dean of the House, who represented Alaska's at-large district for 49 years. "I was deeply saddened to learn of Don Young's unexpected passing. While there will surely be much said in the days ahead about his service to the people of Alaska,  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Congressman Anthony G. Brown joined, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and U.S. Representatives Carolyn Maloney (D-NY-12), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), and former U.S. Representative Robert Wexler (D-FL-19), to submit an Amicus Brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to consider Adams v. Depart more PR

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on March 21, 2022: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, joined a bipartisan group of their Senate colleagues in calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take long-overdue action to combat the youth vaping crisis, including steps that could remove kid-friendly, addictive e-cigarettes fr more PR

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), sent a bipartisan letter to President Biden ahead of his trip to Europe next week to participate in the NATO summit in Brussels. The Senators wrote, in part, "Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine reflects his refusal to respect the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Russia's neighbors. As a result, countless li more PR