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Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) discussed the DETER Act and the need to prevent Russian interference in future U.S. elections with experts during a hearing in the... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Russia Experts Discuss the DETER Act

Today U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded a $43,320 grant to the Hughesville... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Announce $43,320 for the Hughesville Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad in Charles County

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) wrote a letter urging Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to move forward on implementing a real-time payments system – or a method... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Urges Fed To Implement Real-Time Payments System

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen released the following statement regarding the passing of U.S. Senator John McCain: “Senator John McCain was a statesman, a veteran, and... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on the Passing of Senator John McCain

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following statement regarding U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s ruling on the Trump Administration’s federal... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on Trump Federal Employee Executive Order Ruling

Today U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced the passage of $2 million in funding to implement the Firefighter Cancer... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Announces Senate Passage of $2 Million for Firefighter Cancer Registry

Today the U.S. Senate passed the Fiscal Year 2019 Defense Appropriations Act, including Senator Van Hollen’s provision to expressly prohibit spending Department of Defense funds to... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Language to Halt the Transfer of F-35s to Turkey Until Secretary of Defense Certifies Turkey Will Not Acquire Russian S-400 Missile Defense System Passes Senate

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) today sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who also serves as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Call on CFIUS to Investigate ByteGrid

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following statement after the White House press briefing on Russian attempts to interfere in U.S. elections. Senator Van... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on Trump Administration’s Election Security Response

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) joined a bipartisan group of 110 members of Congress in calling on the Trump Administration to reinstate... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Join More Than 100 Members of Congress in Demanding TPS Be Reinstated for El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following statement regarding his vote in support of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019: “The... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on NDAA

U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) announced today that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a $156,101 federal grant to... Continue Reading about Cardin, Van Hollen Announce $156,101 in Federal Funding to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation for Oyster Habitat Restoration in the Choptank River

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) spoke on the Senate floor on our national security. Senator Van Hollen urged action on the DETER Act – his bipartisan legislation... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Discusses DETER, ZTE on Senate Floor

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) are raising serious concerns about the treatment of unions and federal employees at the Social Security Administration... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Demand Answers from SSA’s Treatment of Unions and Federal Employees

Today U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) led a letter with 17 Democratic Senators to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar about funding for... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Casey, Senators Demand Transparency on Office of Refugee Resettlement Funding

Today U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) announced new cosponsors of bipartisan Defending Elections from Threats by Establishing Redlines (DETER) Act:... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Rubio Announce New Cosponsors of the Bipartisan DETER Act

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined CNN’s Anderson Cooper to discuss President Trump’s meeting and press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Senator... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Discusses Trump-Putin Meeting on CNN

U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today spoke out about the revelations that a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin owns ByteGrid LLC, the company that... Continue Reading about Cardin, Van Hollen Urge Action on Election Security

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen has written to Wells Fargo CEO Timothy Sloan expressing his concerns with the bank’s plan to lay off employees in Frederick, Maryland and across the... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Presses Wells Fargo on Frederick Layoffs

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen released the following statement regarding President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court: “The person who fills Justice... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on Kavanaugh Nomination