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Today U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen spoke on the Senate floor on North Korea Sanctions and his bipartisan sanctions legislation, the BRINK Act. An excerpt of his remarks is... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Speaks on Senate Floor on North Korea Sanctions

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-MD) have announced $600,000 in federal funding for the Maryland Coastal Bays Program (MCBP). The funds, issued by the... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Announce More Than a Half Million Dollars in Federal Funding for the Chesapeake Bay

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin(both D-Md.) joined Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) to introduce the Assault Weapons Ban of 2017. This legislation would ban... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin Join Democratic Senators to Introduce Assault Weapons Ban

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and a group of Senate Democrats in calling on the leadership of the Senate Finance Committee to reject changes... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Joins Senators Urging Senate Finance Committee To Reject Tax Changes To 401(k)’s

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) today joined Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) in... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Joins Colleagues In Calling for Comprehensive Disaster Relief Package

U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) and RepresentativesEleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Andy Harris (R-MD) announced that President Trump today signed their... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Cardin, Norton, and Harris, Announce President Trump Signs Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commission Act into Law

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen issued the following statement today after Republicans released the framework of their tax plan: "Make no mistake - the Republican tax proposal is a... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on GOP Tax Plan

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