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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

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) today sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who also serves as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Call on CFIUS to Investigate ByteGrid

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following statement after the White House press briefing on Russian attempts to interfere in U.S. elections. Senator Van... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on Trump Administration’s Election Security Response

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) joined a bipartisan group of 110 members of Congress in calling on the Trump Administration to reinstate... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Join More Than 100 Members of Congress in Demanding TPS Be Reinstated for El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following statement regarding his vote in support of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019: “The... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on NDAA

U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) announced today that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a $156,101 federal grant to... Continue Reading about Cardin, Van Hollen Announce $156,101 in Federal Funding to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation for Oyster Habitat Restoration in the Choptank River

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) spoke on the Senate floor on our national security. Senator Van Hollen urged action on the DETER Act – his bipartisan legislation... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Discusses DETER, ZTE on Senate Floor

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) are raising serious concerns about the treatment of unions and federal employees at the Social Security Administration... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Demand Answers from SSA’s Treatment of Unions and Federal Employees