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Today, U.S. Senators Pat Toomey (R-Pennsylvania) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland), announced an agreement on bipartisan legislation to strengthen and expand current U.S. sanctions... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Toomey Announce Bipartisan Agreement on North Korea Sanctions Bill

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) released the following statement on the White House nomination of Robert K. Hur, currently Principal Associate Deputy... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Statement on Nomination of Robert Hur to be U.S. Attorney for Maryland

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen issued the following statement today after House Republicans made clear that their tax plan will end the state and local income tax... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on GOP Plan to End State and Local Income Tax

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) and Congressman Anthony G. Brown (MD-04) toured the Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) campus with President/CEO Victoria Bayless. During... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Brown Tour Anne Arundel Medical Center Campus

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen joined Senate Democrats today in releasing a new letter to administration officials demanding agencies expedite and better coordinate the on-going... Continue Reading about In New Letter, Van Hollen, Senate Dems Demand Administration Kick Into High Gear On Power Restoration Efforts In Puerto Rico & US Virgin Islands

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) today joined a bipartisan letter calling on President Trump to ramp up efforts to stop Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan from further eroding... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Joins Bipartisan Call for Pres. Trump to Ramp up Pressure on Turkey’s Edrogan

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen and 10 other senators wrote to Secretary Zinke requesting he withdraw his proposal to dramatically increase national park entrance fees and to... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Colleagues To Trump Administration: National Parks Are For All Americans— Not Just The Wealthy

Today, 19 Senate Democrats, including U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt asking for more... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Senate Democrats to EPA: Show Your Work on Clean Power Plan Repeal

Yesterday, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) joined Dr. James McShay from the University of Maryland, Dr. Matt A. Bareto from UCLA, and Monica Sibri,... Continue Reading about Senators Van Hollen, Cardin Joined University Professors to Highlight the Importance of Dreamer Students at Higher Education Institutions and Call for Quick Passage of the Bipartisan Dream Act

This week, U.S. Senator Chirs Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined 17 other Senate Democrats in again demanding answers about the Trump administration's Presidential Advisory Commission on... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Presses Trump Administration for Answers on how its Commission on Election Integrity Will Use Sensitive Voter Data

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined a group of 20 senators in writing Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke to seek answers about the Department's apparent... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Colleagues Demand DHS Answers for Reported Violations of Sensitive Locations Policy

Today U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senate Democrats in a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Democratic Senators Request Update On Drug Enforcement Law

Today, Senator Van Hollen joined Senate and House Democrats introduced the Protect Access to Birth Control Act, legislation to rescind the Trump Administration's interim final... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Democrats Push to Block Trump Administration’s Roll Back of Birth Control Mandate

This morning, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen joined CNN's Headline News (HLN) with Carol Costello to discuss the Republicans' tax reform plan.Senator Van Hollen highlighted the GOP... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Discusses Tax Reform on HLN

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) urged the Department of Homeland Security to ensure the accuracy of the official fatality count in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Calls on DHS to Take Concrete Steps to Ensure Accurate Accounting of Deceased Victims of Hurricane Maria

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin(both D-Md.) led 20 colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Department of Homeland Security... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Urge Trump Administration to Extend Temporary Protected Status for Honduras and El Salvador

Last night the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commission Act, legislation led by U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) to commemorate Frederick... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Legislation Honoring Frederick Douglass Passes Senate

Today, as tax reform takes center stage in Congress, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) offered a provision to keep in place the State and Local Tax... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cantwell Introduce Amendment to Ensure Tax Fairness, Protect Middle Class from Being Taxed Twice on Their Paychecks

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) have announced $45 million in federal funding for Maryland public schools. The funding is designated for the Striving... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Announce $45 Million in Federal Funding for Public School Literacy Program

Today U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen issued the following statement on clashes between the Iraqi government and Kurdish Peshmerga forces: "I am deeply disturbed by reports of the... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on Clashes Between Iraqi Government and Kurdish Peshmerga Forces