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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Van Hollen (D-Md.), Pat Toomey (R-Penn.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) celebrated the inclusion of the Otto Warmbier North... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Toomey, Brown, Portman Applaud North Korea Sanctions in Final NDAA Package

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following statement on the Senate passage  – and his support –  of the FY 2020 National Defense... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on NDAA Final Passage

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) announced that they have secured a total of $85 million in federal funding for the Chesapeake Bay Program within... Continue Reading about Cardin, Van Hollen Announce Historic Funding for Chesapeake Bay Program in Funding Deal

WASHINGTON – Today, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) unanimously passed U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Richard Burr’s (R-N.C.)... Continue Reading about HELP Committee Unanimously Passes Van Hollen and Burr’s Bill to Improve Safety in Child Care Facilities

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin have announced $550,415 in federal funding to boost safety and legal support programs on the Eastern Shore. The funding,... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Announce Over $550,000 in Federal Funding for Safety and Legal Support Programs on the Eastern Shore

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) have announced $4,078,526 in federal funding from the Department of Transportation (DOT) for two airports... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Announce Over $4 Million for Eastern Shore Airports

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) joined Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and others to submit a comment to the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) urging the agency... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Democratic Senators Push Internal Revenue Service to Reverse Decision that Protects Dark Money

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Representatives Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Anthony Brown (all D-Md.) have... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin, Hoyer, Ruppersberger, Sarbanes, and Brown Announce $225,000 for Anne Arundel County Police Department for DNA Processing

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) announced the inclusion of several Maryland priorities within the House and Senate-negotiated National Defense Authorization Act... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Secures Maryland Priorities in Final Defense Authorization Bill

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) issued the following statement applauding the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) vote in favor of sanctions against Turkey for... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Applauds SFRC Vote on Sanctions on Turkey

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) announced that key provisions of the World War I Valor Medals Review Act have been included in the House and... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Blunt Secure Key Provisions of Valor Medals Review Act in Defense Authorization Bill

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen and Representative Anthony Brown (both D-Md.) announced the inclusion of their provision to authorize the honorary promotion of Colonel (Ret.)... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Brown Announce Inclusion of Honorary Promotion for Bethesda Veteran Charles McGee in Defense Authorization Bill

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) announced the inclusion of language to provide 2 million federal workers with 12 weeks of paid leave to care for a new child after... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Announces Inclusion of Paid Parental Leave for Federal Workers in Defense Authorization Bill

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) joined Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and a bipartisan group of Senators in a letter to Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Bipartisan Group of Senators Send Letter to UN Convention in Support of Global Efforts to Combat Climate Change

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) joined Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and a group of Democratic Senators in a letter to President Donald Trump, urging him to reconsider... Continue Reading about As UN Convention on Climate Change in Europe is Underway, Van Hollen, Democratic Senators Urge Trump to Reconsider Paris Climate Accord Withdrawal

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and bipartisan group of their colleagues expressed their... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Blackburn, Durbin to Burmese State Counsellor: We Urge You to Fully Cooperate with the ICJ

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) and 24 of their colleagues wrote a letter to President Donald J. Trump, demanding the immediate removal... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Democratic Colleagues Demand Stephen Miller’s Removal from the White House

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) sent a letter to Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul questioning the recent unilateral decision... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Senators Defend Social Security Workers, Urge Reversal of Abrupt Cancellation of Telework

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) today announced the award of $1,564,898 for the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Sea Grant... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Announce $1.56 Million for University System of Maryland Sea Grant Program

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) have announced $38.4 million in federal funding for the implementation of several key water infrastructure projects in... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Announce $38.4 Million for Water Infrastructure Projects in Maryland