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Maryland's senators are urging President Donald Trump to reconsider his plans to cut the budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van... Continue Reading about Md. senators urge President Trump to reconsider budget cuts to NIH

U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Council President Roger Berliner and four state lawmakers are pressuring Maryland transportation officials for a status update on safety... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Berliner Admonish State for Delays in Improving Safety at Bethesda Intersection

Local religious and political leaders joined in solidarity Friday morning at a Jewish community center in Rockville to condemn a recent wave of anti-Semitism. The event took place... Continue Reading about Local Leaders Unite To Condemn Recent Threats, Anti-Semitism

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, touring the port of Baltimore on Tuesday, said he hopes President Donald J. Trump and Congress will come to an agreement on how to address $1 trillion in... Continue Reading about Van Hollen: 'No. 1 goal is to get everybody around the table' on infrastructure

Congress is in recess this week. House and Senate members are back in their home districts, including Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen. He stopped at the Port of Baltimore Tuesday... Continue Reading about Sen. Chris Van Hollen visits Port of Baltimore

U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., visited the University of Maryland Eastern Shore campus Monday, Feb. 20, to announce plans for a Harriet Tubman statue at the United... Continue Reading about Sen. Van Hollen announces Tubman statue efforts

Elisabeth “Betsy” DeVos on Tuesday was confirmed narrowly by the Senate as the secretary of education after Vice President Mike Pence cast an historic, tie-breaking... Continue Reading about Maryland Senators Vote Against DeVos Confirmation

U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen and the former director of the NSA talked Wednesday in Linthicum about the importance of the government working with the private sector to... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, former NSA director discuss government, private sector collaboration

Sen. Chris Van Hollen and other Senate Democrats introduced a bill Wednesday that would protect young immigrants' private information so the Trump administration couldn't target... Continue Reading about Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen cosponsored a bill to protect young undocumented immigrants

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday morning over Twitter -- in two tweets -- that he will ask for a "major investigation" into voter fraud during the 2016 election. United... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Says Trump's Illegal Voting Comment "Flies Into The Face Of Facts"

Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, 58, elected to the Senate last November after seven terms in the House, talks about his childhood overseas, working in Alaska and... Continue Reading about Take 5: Chris Van Hollen

A standing-room-only crowd has packed a historic African-American church in Washington for one of dozens of rallies aro A standing-room-only crowd has packed a historic... Continue Reading about Chris Van Hollen: Trump Can’t ‘Bury the Statue of Liberty’

Source: Roll Call Senate Democrats Use the Floor and Facebook to Protest Obamacare Repeal Senate Democrats launched the first of what will likely be numerous efforts to derail... Continue Reading about Senate Democrats Use the Floor and Facebook to Protest Obamacare Repeal

Chris Van Hollen delivered his first speech on the Senate floor Thursday, denouncing Senate Republicans for what he called a "reckless" and "irresponsible" plan to repeal the... Continue Reading about Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen: “I will fight every day” to protect Obamacare

Amidst a hot debate over repealing Obamacare, U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen delivered his first speech on the Senate floor Thursday. Van Hollen acknowledged that appearing this early... Continue Reading about Van Hollen gives first speech on Senate floor

Chris Van Hollen was sworn in on Tuesday afternoon as Maryland's newest senator. This morning, he joined WBAL's Bryan Nehman to discuss the big move.  "I've worked hard to... Continue Reading about Chris Van Hollen Discusses His Newest Role As U.S. Senator

WASHINGTON - For almost a decade Maryland has had the same look in Senate, but now that's changed with former congressman now Senator, Chris Van Hollen. Like retired Sen. Barbara... Continue Reading about Van Hollen marks a new era for Maryland in the senate