September 12, 2024
Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and U.S. Representatives Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Judy Chu (D-Calif.) introduced legislation to require the biggest polluters to begin paying their fair share to confront the climate crisis. The Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act, requires the largest U.S.-based fossil fuel extractors and oil refiners and foreign-owned companies doing business in the U.S. to pay into a $1 trillion Polluters Pay Climate Fund, with their contributions based on a percentage… Continue Reading
September 10, 2024
U.S. Senators Chirs Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) today applauded the bipartisan Senate confirmation of Magistrate Judge Adam Abelson to fill a vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Judge Abelson fills the seat of former Chief Judge James K. Bredar, who took senior status in April of this year. He was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee in July following a June hearing.
“As a magistrate judge, a leader in the Baltimore legal community, and an attorney … Continue Reading
September 10, 2024
Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), both of whom serve on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and a bipartisan group of 17 senators in sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Education (ED) in support of delaying the institutional reporting deadline for the new Gainful Employment (GE) and Financial Value Transparency (FVT) regulations to July 2025. The senators’ request comes as ED works thr… Continue Reading
