WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. David Trone, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on May 25, 2023: * * * As co-founder and co-chair of both the Bipartisan Mental Health & Substance Use Disorder Task Force and the Bipartisan Second Chance Task Force, Congressman David Trone (D-MD) voted "no" on expanded mandatory minimums in HR 467, the HALT Fentanyl Act. He released the following statement: "In 2016, I lost my 24-year-old nephew Ian to a fentanyl overdose. This fight is personal for me, as i more PR

WASHINGTON, May 25 -- The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance issued the following testimony by Clifford Rossi, professor-of-the-practice and executive-in-residence in Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, involving a hearing on May 17, 2023, entitled "The Current Mortgage Market: Undermining Housing Affordability With Politics": * * * I am Dr. Clifford Rossi, Professor-of-the-Practice and Executive-in-Residence at the Robert H. Smith Scho more PR

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, issued the following news release and letter: Members of Congress representing Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia today wrote to leaders of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure to express strong local opposition to "any changes to the current High Density ('Slot') and Perimeter rules at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ('National')." Their letter followed recent, local opposition to proposed changes to more PR

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release and letter on May 25, 2023: Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) wrote to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to pardon prisoner of conscience Mubarak Bala. President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria and a self-identified atheist, Bala has been imprisoned in Nigeria since April 28, 2020, when he was arrested over a Facebook post stating that he did not believe in an afterlife. Rep. Raskin and th more PR