WASHINGTON, May 10 -- The Congressional Budget Office issued the following cost estimate for the Frederick Jobs and Historic Preservation Training Center Land Acquisition Act (H.R. 4494): H.R. 4494, Frederick Jobs and Historic Preservation Training Center Land Acquisition Act as ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on Nov. 17, 2021. H.R. 4494 would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire up to 20 acres of land in Frederick County, Maryland, for a new Historic more PR

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Rep. David Trone, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Congressmen David Trone (D-MD) and Fred Upton (R-MI) led a group of their colleagues in introducing a House resolution designating May 10, 2022, as National Fentanyl Awareness Day. Overdose deaths have skyrocketed in recent years, largely due to the influx of fentanyl - a synthetic opioid - being mixed into illicit and counterfeit drugs. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) are leading  more PR

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on May 9, 2022: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) released the following statements after their Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act, which would authorize the President to enter into lend-lease agreements with Ukraine to provide additional categories of military equipment to protect civilians, was signed into law: "The Ukrainia more PR

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: In an effort to help thousands of children who undergo cancer treatment each year, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senators Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in introducing the Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, and Research (STAR) Reauthorization Act. This bipartisan legislation would reauthorize the Childhood Cancer STAR Act, t more PR

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin and U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Chair Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today sent a letter to U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman urging the agency to process pending COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) Program applications usin more PR

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, chairman of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, issued the following news release on May 9, 2022: U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin and U.S. Senate Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee Chair Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today announced $4 million in congressionally directed spending to support innovation programs at Bowie State University, the more PR

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in a bipartisan push for more funding to help address the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak. "HPAI has been detected in 32 states across the country and has killed over 36 million birds. Although the virus poses minimal risk to human health, it has serious implications for U.S. poult more PR