BALTIMORE, Maryland, May 13 -- Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Maryland, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Congressman Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) released a letter he sent on Saturday, April 29, 2023, to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan urging the Administrator to reject Norfolk Southern Railway Corporation's ("Norfolk Southern") resurrected plan to treat wastewater from the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment in Baltimore and seeking a meeting with the Adm more PR

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment issued the following information for a hearing entitled "The Next Fifty Years of the Clean Water Act: Examining the Law and Infrastructure Project Completion" at 10 a.m. on May 16, 2023, at 2167 Rayburn House Office Building: Witness list: * Dr. Andrea Travnicek, Director, Department of Water Resources, State of North Dakota * The Honorable Serena Coleman McIlwain, Secretary of th more PR

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Rep. John P. Sarbanes, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on May 12, 2023: Congressman Sarbanes (D-Md.) today called for leveraging the lessons learned and systems created during the COVID-19 pandemic to improve communication and coordination among all public health agencies, state and local providers, and the public. In an Energy and Commerce Committee Health Subcommittee hearing entitled "Preparing for and Responding to Future Public Health Security Threats," more PR

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held an executive session to vote on the nominations of: Dr. Jared Bernstein, of Virginia, to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President; Dr. Ron Borzekowski, of Maryland, to be Director of Financ more PR