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Today U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen offered several amendments at the Senate Budget Committee markup designed to protect working families in Maryland and across the country from... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Fights for Working Families in Budget Markup

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen joined U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Congressmen Elijah Cummings, Dutch Ruppersberger, and John Sarbanes (all D-MD) in issuing the following... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Baltimore Delegation Statement on Appointment of Consent Decree Monitor Team

Today U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.)announced a $4,145,539 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs grant for the expansion of the Rocky Gap State Veterans... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Announce $4.1 Million Grant for Maryland Veterans Cemetery

Today U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin(both D-Md.)announced a $3,100,297 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation for Baltimore-Washington International... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Announce $3.1 Million Grant for BWI Airport

Today U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen raised the issue of forced arbitration - which denies consumers the right to sue a company - with Tim Sloan, the CEO of Wells Fargo. A... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Takes on Wells Fargo CEO on Forced Arbitration

Today U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen issued the following statement on the Senate Republican Budget: "The Senate Republican Budget is a recipe for galloping debt, slower long-term... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on Senate Republican Budget

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) joined a group of Senators in sending aletter to President Trumpto express deep concern about the situation in Puerto Rico and the U.S.... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Colleagues To President Trump: We Must Do More For Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai opposing the roll back of the 2015 Open Internet Order and stressing... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Urges FCC Chairman Pai to Keep Internet Free and Open

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) today lauded the announcement that Dorchester County on Maryland's Eastern Shore has been added to the counties... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Welcome Designation of Dorchester County as High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen joined abipartisan group of Senators in a letter to senior Trump Administration officials Thursday, urging them to apply the full weight of American... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Colleagues in Seek Safety and Accountability for Burmese Rohingya People

Today, U.S. Senator Van Hollen released the following statement regarding the Trump Administration's release of their tax reform plan. "President Trump has finally released his... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on Trump Tax Proposal

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and a group of eight senators have urged the release of the full Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) study examining the economic... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Senators Urge Release of Full Department of Health and Human Services Study Examining Economic Impact of Admitting Refugees to the United States

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following statement on his opposition to the nomination of Noel J. Franciso for the position of Solicitor General of the... Continue Reading about Statement of Senator Chris Van Hollen on the Nomination of Noel J. Francisco

In the wake of three massive storms that have disrupted the day-to-day lives of millions of people in the U.S., Senator Chris Van Hollen and 37 U.S. Senators today called on the... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Democratic Lawmakers Call for Extension of DACA Renewal Deadline in Wake of Storms

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined a coalition of Democratic House and Senate members in sending a letter to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) urging the agency to... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Democrats Call on FEC to Prevent Foreign Governments from Using Social Media to Influence U.S. Elections

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) have announced a $7,809,101 U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) grant for the Baltimore-Washington International... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Announce $7.8 Million Grant for BWI Airport

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) haveannounced that the Kent Island Volunteer Fire Department and the Preston Volunteer Fire Department have been awarded... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Announce Funding for Eastern Shore First Responders to Purchase New Equipment

Last night, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen joined MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss the Graham-Cassidy attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act and the devastating impacts it... Continue Reading about Van Hollen on MSNBC: Graham-Cassidy Does Not Pass the ‘Jimmy Kimmel Test’

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) today joined a group of Democratic Senators in calling on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow the public to review and... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Democratic Senators Call for Public Review and Comment on Valuable Evidence in FCC’s Net Neutrality Proceeding

U.S. Senator Van Hollen (D-MD) joined 15 of his colleagues in a letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) following reports that a number of high-ranking officials in the... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Senators Urge Office of Management and Budget to Investigate Taxpayer-Funded Travel for Executive Branch Officials