Press Releases
What used to be a fist fight is now a gun fight. Today’s shooting is the result of too many guns on the street and too much bravado and bluster. These victims of violence were senselessly shot in Bladensburg after attending a funeral. Five wounded with 3 in critical condition is simply unacceptable. My heart hurts for these families experiencing this painful incident today.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John P. Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Jamie Raskin, David J. Trone, and Glenn Ivey (all Md.) announced $3.8 million through the U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny Hoyer, Jamie Raskin and Glenn Ivey (all D-Md.) today announced $39,863,156 in Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding for the University of Maryland, College Park to replace 35 aging diesel transit buses with battery-powered electric buses and add charging stationsto their fleet.
As Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote, “Our country has never been colorblind [g]iven the lengthy history of state-sanctioned race-based preferences in America.” And yet, the Supreme Court today turned a blind eye to this history, striking down the consideration of race in college admissions as if generations of slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow did not exist or efforts to ameliorate these entrenched disadvantages in higher education no longer serve the cause of justice.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie Raskin, David Trone, and Glenn Ivey (all D-Md.) announced $1,375,686 for the Maryland Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) to support local small- and medium-sized manufacturing businesses and create job opportunities in Maryland.