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Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) applauded the Senate’s passage of the bipartisan Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018, which will help address this public health... Continue Reading about Van Hollen: Senate Passage of Opioid Legislation Includes Important Resources for Maryland

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (Both D-Md.) yesterday joined with Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee,... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Call For DOJ To Investigate FBI Headquarters Consolidation Project

WASHINGTON – Today U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and Chris Coons (D-Del.) led a letter of 34 Democratic Senators to... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Feinstein, Coons Lead Letter from 34 Senators Strongly Opposing Cuts to Aid to Palestinian People

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Susan Collins (R-ME), Mark Warner (D-VA), James Lankford (R-OK), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) today introduced... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Rubio, Colleagues Introduce Bill To Enforce Commerce Deal With Chinese Telecom Firm ZTE

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) has announced the inclusion of over $86 billion for veterans services and health care as a part of the funding legislation passed by the... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Secures Funding for Veterans’ Services and Health Care in Congress-Passed Appropriations Bill

Today U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen issued the following statement on the provision in Fiscal Year 2019 Defense Appropriations bill regarding the transfer of the F-35 aircraft to... Continue Reading about Van Hollen: Turkey F-35 Provision in DoD Appropriations Falls Short

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) today released a joint statement after President Trump signed an Executive Order to impose sanctions-in-waiting... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Rubio Statement on Election Security Executive Order

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin, along with U.S. Representatives John Sarbanes, Elijah Cummings and C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger (all D-Md.), have announced $432,627 in... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Baltimore’s Congressional Delegation Announces More Than $400,000 for National Aquarium Education Program

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen released the following statement in opposition to the confirmation of Charles Rettig to become Commissioner of Internal Revenue. I opposed... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on Charles Rettig

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin, along with U.S. Representatives John Sarbanes, Elijah Cummings and C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger (all D-Md.), have announced $432,627 in... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Baltimore’s Congressional Delegation Announces More Than $400,000 for National Aquarium Education Program

This week, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen wrote to Maryland Governor Larry Hogan seeking answers on the implementation of positive train control (PTC) measures on the Maryland Area... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Seeks Update from Governor on MARC Safety Measures

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) are urging the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to use its Airport Improvement Program (AIP) to help the... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Call on FAA to Support Salisbury-Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport Effort to Retain Piedmont Airlines

Today, the Maryland Democratic Congressional Delegation, led by Senator Chris Van Hollen, wrote a letter to CSX Corporation President and CEO James Foote requesting an update on... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Maryland Democratic Delegation Presses CSX for Update on Howard Street Tunnel

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