WASHINGTON, April 26 -- Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Congressman Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) and Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) introduced the New Pathways Act. This legislation would help formerly incarcerated Americans to re-enter society by requiring the Bureau of Prisons to help these individuals obtain government-issued identification. More than 650,000 Americans are released from prison each year and upon release face significant barriers to reentry. Among these barriers is the need for a gover more PR

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Rep. C.A. 'Dutch' Ruppersberger, D-Maryland, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger (both D-Md.) led a bipartisan group of more than 20 of their Congressional colleagues in writing to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in support of the University of Maryland-led Mid-Atlantic Semiconductor Collaborative (MASC) proposal to contribute to the Department of Defense's (DoD) Microelectronic Commons Initiative. The Microelectronics Commons, which DoD  more PR