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Metro Safety, Accountability and Investment Act of 2019 also protects security of Metro system by prohibiting purchase of Chinese rail cars Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen... Continue Reading about Maryland & Virginia Senators Introduce New Legislation Reforming WMATA Safety & Renewing Federal Funding Commitment to Metro

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Representatives Elijah E. Cummings, Dutch Ruppersberger, and John Sarbanes (all D-Md.) wrote to the Federal Bureau of... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Baltimore Delegation Request FBI Briefing on Baltimore Ransomware Attack

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) along with Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Mn.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Il.) introduced two bills to close a loophole created by the 2017 tax... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Klobuchar, Duckworth Introduce Legislation to Keep Jobs in the United States

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and Tina Smith (D-MN), along with U.S.... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Duckworth, Durbin, Feinstein, Shaheen, Smith, And Kelly Reintroduce Legislation To Train Students For High-Skill Jobs

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) along with Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.)wrote a letter calling on the Financial... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Colleagues Call for New Rule to Protect Seniors from Unscrupulous Financial Advisors

Last night, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Congressmen David Trone (D-Md.) and David... Continue Reading about Maryland and West Virginia Members Push for Meeting with Verso CEO before Luke Mill Operations Shutdown

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) along with Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Patty Murray (D-Wash.)... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Schatz, Bennet, Whitehouse, Murray Introduce Legislation to Repeal Debt Ceiling

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) cosponsored the Recreational Trails Program (RTP) Funding Transparency Act, bipartisan legislation to increase transparency of funding for the... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Cosponsors Bipartisan Legislation to Increase Transparency of Funding for the Recreational Trails Program

Senators Van Hollen and Brown Demand Info From Deutsche Bank on Trump, Kushner Suspicious Activity Reports U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Oh.) are... Continue Reading about Senators to Deutsche Bank: Why Did You Block Filing of Trump and Kushner Suspicious Activity Reports?

In letter to Acting OMB Director, Senators express grave concern about proposed merge that would subject career civil servants to increased political interference U.S. Sens. Chris... Continue Reading about Maryland & Virginia Senators Request Answers About White House Proposal to Place Presidential Appointee in Charge of Federal Workforce Policy

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen raised serious concerns following the NY Times reporting that Deutsche Bank ignored warnings about suspicious activity from accounts... Continue Reading about New Reports Raise Concern that Deutsche Bank Willfully Misled Van Hollen on Oversight of Relationship with Trump

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Representative David Trone and (All D-Md.) announced $200,000 in funding from the Rural Communities Opioid Response Grant... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin, Trone Announce $200,000 Rural Communities Opioid Response Grant to the Western Maryland Area Health Education Center

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) this week to... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Democratic Senators Introduce Green Bank Act of 2019

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined a group of Senate Democrats in applauding news that Gannett shareholders voted to reject a hostile takeover by a hedge fund. The... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Democrats Applaud Vote to Reject Hedge Fund Takeover of Gannett

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Edward Markey (D-Mass.), and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) wrote to President Trump raising serious concerns about... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Sanders, Markey, Merkley to Trump: “We are Deeply Concerned by Your Administration’s Growing Confrontation with Iran”

The Stop Arctic Ocean Drilling Act of 2019 prohibits reckless, high-risk drilling that will accelerate climate chaos and decimate Arctic ecosystems Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Cosponsors Legislation to Stop Arctic Drilling

National Science Foundation invests in African-American Research Faculty and Students at Morgan State University and Bowie State University United States Senators Chris Van Hollen... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Announce More than $1.5 Million in Awards for Research at Maryland HBCUs

U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) have announced $12,030,000 in federal funding for the Hagerstown Regional Airport and the Garrett County Airport through... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Announce over $12 Million for Western Maryland Airports

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen along with a group of bipartisan Senators introduced a Senate resolution honoring the legacy of the late Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN). The... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Bipartisan Senators Introduce Resolution Honoring Richard Lugar’s Legacy, Pushing to Continue Global Non-Proliferation Efforts

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), along with several of his Senate colleagues and House Democrats sent a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue expressing... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Democrats Question USDA Plans to Relocate Offices Outside the National Capital Region