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U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), along with a group of 23 Senators, including Committee Ranking Member Jon Tester (D-MT) and Senate Minority... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Senators Urge VA to Prioritize Veterans’ Mental Health Care Amid Pandemic

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today announced new legislation, the Emergency Rental Assistance and Rental Market Stabilization Act of... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Brown Introduce Legislation to Help Renters During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today formally announced the introduction of legislation to mobilize Americans in... Continue Reading about Senators Van Hollen, Markey and Rep. Phillips Lead Bicameral Legislation to Significantly Expand National Service in Response to Coronavirus Crisis

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and five of their Senate colleagues in calling on the President of... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Menendez, Colleagues Call on Kyrgyzstan President to Release Prisoners

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), along with 7 Senate Democrats in urging the Trump administration to cover... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Murphy, Baldwin Lead Call Urging Trump Administration to Cover COVID-19 Related Medical Expenses for Those Enrolled in Junk Plans

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John P. Sarbanes, Anthony G. Brown, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced... Continue Reading about Maryland Delegation Members Announce More Than $1.5 Million in Telehealth Grants for State Health Care Providers

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Patty Murray (D-WA), and a group of 21 lawmakers pushed the Trump administration to provide a detailed briefing to... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Merkley, Murray, Colleagues Push Trump Administration for Detailed COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-VA), along with a group of 31 Members of Congress, urged Congressional... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Blumenthal, Beyer, Colleagues Push in Bicameral Letter for Boost of Health Care System Research Funding in Next Congressional COVID-19 Relief Package

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Todd Young (R-IN) today pressed the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in a bipartisan letter for a... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Merkley, Young Push in Bipartisan Letter for United Nations Plan to Protect Human Rights During COVID-19 Pandemic

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) joined colleagues in urging Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin to reject politically motivated conditions on... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin, Colleagues Tell Trump Administration: Stop Playing Politics with the U.S. Postal Service

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (all D-Md.) today announced $110,399 in federal funding to the University of Maryland, College Park... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin, Hoyer Announce More Than $110,000 for COVID-19 Research at University of Maryland, College Park

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John P. Sarbanes, Andy Harris, M.D., Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G.... Continue Reading about Maryland Congressional Delegation Announces More Than $17 Million in AmeriCorps Funding

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR), along with Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), urged... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Durbin, Merkley, Colleagues Urge SBA and Treasury to Reject Payday Lenders From Paycheck Protection Program

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John P. Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $500,000 for Morgan State... Continue Reading about Baltimore Congressional Delegation Announces $500,000 for Morgan State University Historical Preservation

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John P. Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin and David Trone (all... Continue Reading about Maryland Delegation Members Urge Negotiators to Strengthen SNAP in COVID-19 Relief Package

United States Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter to the Surgeon General and the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Warren Urge HHS to Fully Utilize Public Health Service Commissioned Corps to Respond to COVID-19 Pandemic

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) announced the passage of key provisions for Maryland within the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s package of water... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Secures Maryland Priorities in Legislation Passed by Key Environment and Public Works Committee

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) led eight of his Senate colleagues in a letter to President Donald J. Trump urging him to expand his use of Title III of the Defense... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Colleagues Urge Trump to Immediately Use DPA to Manufacture PPE, COVID-19 Testing Supplies

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) joined Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) along with a bipartisan group of Senators in pushing Senate leadership to... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Joins Merkley, Daines In Bipartisan Push to Boost Credit Counseling Services for American Consumers

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), along with a group of their colleagues, expressed concern to Federal Trade Commission... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Klobuchar, Warren, Colleagues Urge Federal Trade Commission to Protect Against Scams Targeting Small Businesses