Baltimore, Maryland
Ocean City, Maryland
Cardin Announces He will not Run
for Re-election in 2024
United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland
Letters From Ben
Shutdown the Shutdown
Speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy acknowledged a truth this week when he said, “Nobody wins in a government shutdown.” There is no such thing as a “good government shutdown.” The House needs to work with the Senate to avoid such a nightmare, and time is running out fast. The federal government’s fiscal year ends September 30. If we do not pass the 12 annual spending bills – what Congress calls “appropriations” – functions of the federal government will be suspended beginning October 1. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers across every single state, including Maryland, will be furloughed. Businesses, big and small, who rely on work under federal...
Shutdown the Shutdown
Speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy acknowledged a truth this week when he said, “Nobody wins in a government shutdown.” There is no such thing as a “good government shutdown.” The House needs to work with the Senate to avoid such a nightmare,...
Cardin, Van Hollen Join Democratic Lawmakers in Urging President Biden to Take Executive Action to Address Gun Violence Epidemic, Limit Sale of Assault Weapons
WASHINGTON– U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen joined 77 of their Democratic colleagues in the Senate and House in writing a letter to President Joe Biden, urging him to take further executive action to combat gun violence and limit the sale of assault...
Never Forget
This year marks the twenty-second anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. Millions of Americans remember exactly where they were and what we were doing when nearly 3,000 people were killed in the deadliest terror attacks on American soil. It seemed...
Marching On
Dear Fellow Marylanders. Sixty years ago Monday, August 28, 1963, hundreds of thousands of men and women descended on our nation’s capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march has become synonymous with Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have...