July 24, 2024
Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and four of their colleagues in introducing a bill to apply criminal penalties to rogue insurance brokers who are changing Americans’ Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace plans without their knowledge or consent, and take other steps to strengthen consumer health insurance protections.
The bill, titled the Insurance Fraud Accountability Act, would hold fraudulent insurance brokers and marketer… Continue Reading
July 24, 2024
This week, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and 12 of their colleagues in urging Michael Herzog, Ambassador of Israel to the United States, and Motaz Zahran, Ambassador of Egypt to the United States, to help Palestinian children who are critically ill and injured leave Gaza safely to seek medical treatment, and increase access to life-saving medical treatments in Gaza for children in-need.
“While people disagree about the war in Gaza, everyone should agree th… Continue Reading
July 24, 2024
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 $10,000,000 in federal funding for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources to construct approximately 50 acres of reefs within existing oyster sanctuaries in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay.
The restored reefs will provide habitat for the Bay’s diverse wildlife while bolstering the local oyster popula… Continue Reading
