WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on March 30, 2023: U.S. Senator Ben Cardin introduced a bill on Wednesday that would prospectively repeal the 2001 Authorizations for the Use of Military Force that was enacted in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on our country by the terrorist organization al-Qaeda. The legislation builds on the Senate's vote earlier in the day to repeal two outdated and obsolete Authorizations for the Use of Military  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) Thursday reintroduced the End Racial and Religious Profiling Act of 2023 (ERRPA) that would ban discriminatory profiling by federal, state and local law enforcement nationwide. ERRPA (S. 1084) is designed to promote best practices in community-based policing to strengthen enforcement of the right to equal protection under the law, which is one of our most basic constituti more PR

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Congressman Kweisi Mfume, Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Jamie B. Raskin, David Trone, and Glenn Ivey (all D-Md.) released the following statement after receiving confirmation from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Norfolk Southern that they no longer plan to transport waste from the East Palestine, Ohio train de more PR

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Rep. C.A. 'Dutch' Ruppersberger, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on March 30, 2023: * * * U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie B. Raskin, David Trone, and Glenn Ivey (all D-Md.) released the following statement after receiving confirmation from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Norfolk Southern that they no longer plan to transport waste from the East  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on March 30, 2023, with eight members of Congress: * * * U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie B. Raskin, David Trone, and Glenn Ivey (all D-Md.) released the following statement after receiving confirmation from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Norfolk Southern that they no longer plan to transpor more PR

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Maryland, issued the following joint statement on March 30, 2023: * * * U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie B. Raskin, David Trone, and Glenn Ivey (all D-Md.) released the following statement after receiving confirmation from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Norfolk Southern that they no longer plan to transport waste from the East Palestine, more PR

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on March 30, 2023, with eight members of Congress: * * * U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie B. Raskin, David Trone, and Glenn Ivey (all D-Md.) released the following statement after receiving confirmation from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Norfolk Southern that they no longer plan to transport wa more PR

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following joint statement on March 30, 2023: * * * Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05), U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-MD), and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-02), John Sarbanes (MD-03), Kweisi Mfume (MD-07), Jamie B. Raskin (MD-08), David Trone (MD-06), and Glenn Ivey (MD-04) released the following statement after receiving confirmation from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Norfolk Sout more PR

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Members of the Regional Leadership Council (RLC) and its chair, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer, attended a meeting at the White House with key officials in the Biden-Harris Administration to discuss their effort to implement the historic laws that Democrats enacted in the 117th Congress. The meeting coincides with the Biden-Harris Administration's Investing in America tour, where President Biden, members of  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Rep. C.A. 'Dutch' Ruppersberger, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on March 30, 2023: * * * Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger issued the following statement after voting against H.R. 1, the "Lower Energy Costs Act," which does little - if anything - to help consumers struggling with high energy costs: "Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed dangerous legislation that pads the pockets of oil executives and empowers them to continue gouging price-wea more PR

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Rep. David Trone, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on March 30, 2023: Representatives David Trone (D-MD), Paul D. Tonko (D-NY), Mike Turner (R-OH), and John Rutherford (R-FL) today introduced the Reentry Act, bipartisan legislation that empowers states to restore access to healthcare, including addiction and mental health treatment, through Medicaid for incarcerated individuals up to 30 days before their release. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Mike Braun  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) in a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler highlighting concerns with large stock trades made by Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) executives in the days and months before SVB's collapse. At the Banking and Housing Committee hearing on Tuesday about SVB's failure, several members of the Committee ex more PR

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (D-N.Y.-09) introduced the Consumer Online Payment Transparency and Integrity (Consumer OPT-IN) Act, bicameral legislation to protect consumers from online free trial scams and hard-to-cancel recurring-payment programs. The lawmakers' bill puts the onus on companies, not consumers, when it comes to extending subscriptions and memb more PR