WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on Aug. 1, 2022: * * * House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement this evening after President Biden's announced a successful U.S. counterterrorism air strike that killed Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. "I commend President Biden and all the U.S. national-security personnel involved in carrying out this operation successfully against the leader of al-Qaeda and more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, and Anthony G. Brown (all D-Md.) announced the final Senate passage of legislation to open two veterans clinics in Baltimore and Prince George's County. The bipartisan Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act (PACT Act) which p more PR

BOWIE, Maryland, Aug. 3 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Aug. 2, 2022: This morning, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) visited the Bowie City Public Works Water Facility for a briefing on the funding he secured in the FY2022 Omnibus legislation. Congressman Hoyer has been vocal about the challenges that the city faces with tuberculated water pipes, and recently secured $2 million for the facility to replace a mile of water piping. "It was important for  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, chairman of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 2, 2022: U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today convened a hearing on the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA's) COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program. The COVID EIDL program was created by Congress in March 2020 to provide fixed rate, low interest, long-term c more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Aug. 2, 2022, and a July 15, 2022, letter: U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today convened a hearing on the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA's) COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program. The COVID EIDL program was created by Congress in March 2020 to provide fixed rate, low interest, long-term capital to small businesses struggling due more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (TNSres) -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.) and Senators Tim Kaine and Mark R. Warner (Both D-Va.), with Senators Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla (Both D-Calif.) have introduced the Preventing a Patronage System Act, legislation that would prevent any position in the federal civil service from being reclassified outside of merit system principles without the express consent of Con more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release and letter on Aug. 1, 2022: U.S. Senate or Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) today joined with more than two dozen of their Senate Democratic colleagues in calling on the Biden administration to work urgently to increase the rate of refugee admissions for the remainder of Fiscal Year (FY) 2022. In a le more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Chairman of the SFRC Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy, today introduced a Senate resolution calling for free, fair, and peaceful elections in Angola on August 24. In addition to urging the Government of Angola to take specific steps to ensure the credibi more PR