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U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and 13 of their colleagues in sending a letter to... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Joins Warren, Schumer, Colleagues in Launching Probe Into DOGE's Interference with Department of Education, Access to Federal Student Loan Data

Today, Senator Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and a group of 24 Democratic Senators called on Department... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Blumenthal, Senate Democrats Demand VA Secretary Collins Step Up and Defend Veterans’ Private Information from Elon Musk

Today, Senator Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Jamie Raskin (both D-MD) led the Maryland Democratic congressional delegation in a letter to U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Raskin, Maryland Congressional Democrats Demand Commerce Nominee Protect NOAA’s “Independence, Integrity and Existence”

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following statement regarding President Trump’s declaration tonight that the United States will “take over”... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on Trump Gaza Announcement

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks (both D-MD), Governor Wes Moore, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05), and Congressman Glenn Ivey (MD-04), released the... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Team Maryland Statement on General Services Administration's Inspector General’s Evaluation

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) has joined U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and others in a letter warning that President Trump’s plan to “buy-out” federal workers... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Colleagues Press for Answers on Impacts of Trump Administration “Buy-Out” Policy on Social Security Administration

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Congresswoman Susie Lee (D-Nev.) have reintroduced their Keep Our Promise to America’s Children and Teachers (PACT) Act, legislation to... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Lee Introduce Bill to Fully Fund Title I, Special Education

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Chris... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Joins Welch, Colleagues in Reintroducing Withstanding Extreme Agricultural Threats by Harvesting Economic Resilience (WEATHER) Act

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined concerned doctors, nurses, and health care advocates from across the country for a press conference ahead of Robert F. Kennedy,... Continue Reading about TRANSCRIPT: Van Hollen Joins Doctors, Nurses, Health Care Advocates to Highlight RFK Jr. Concerns Ahead of Confirmation Hearings

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) was announced as the Ranking Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies. This... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Announced Ranking Member of Influential Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Subcommittee

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committees, joined Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.),  Democratic... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Colleagues Demand Hold on Vought Nomination to OMB Amid Order to Halt Federal Grants and Loans

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, released the following statement regarding the Office of Management and Budget’s... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Slams Trump Administration for Illegal Withholding of Federal Grant Funds

Today, Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks and Congressman Jamie Raskin (all D-Md.) wrote Acting Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Dorothy... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Alsobrooks, Raskin Sound Alarm on NIH Disruptions, Urge Immediate Restoration of Operations

Today, U.S. Senators Chirs Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), and Andy Kim (D-N.J.) and a... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Joins Colleagues in Introducing Resolution Condemning Pardons of Individuals Found Guilty of Assaulting Capitol Police Officers

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks (both D-Md.) announced $260,758 in federal funding for equipment and infrastructure projects at Salisbury Regional... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Alsobrooks Announce Over $260,000 to Support Airports on the Eastern Shore

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) spoke on the Senate Floor in opposition to the nomination of Pete Hegseth to serve as Secretary of the Department of Defense. Video of... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Floor Speech on Nomination of Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Representative Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) announced that, based on a Biden Administration briefing and as also demonstrated by recent... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Jacobs Confirm UAE Providing Weapons to RSF in Sudan, in Contradiction to its Assurances to US

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Sean Casten (D-Ill.) released the following statement... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, DeLauro, Durbin, Casten Release Statement on Trump’s Rescission of Biden’s West Bank Sanctions

WASHINGTON – Today, in a hearing before the Senate Budget Committee, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) questioned President Trump’s nominee to serve as the Director of the... Continue Reading about VIDEO/TRANSCRIPT: Van Hollen Questions Vought, Nominee for OMB Director, on Federal Workforce Protections, Congressional Power of the Purse

Today, U.S. Senator Chirs Van Hollen joined Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and 14 of their colleagues in urging House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to quickly authorize a... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Joins Moran, Colleagues in Calling for a Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony to Recognize the Six Triple Eight