WASHINGTON- U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) joined Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) in sending a letter to Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary Lloyd Austin […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Jamie B. Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) announced $12,108,037.50 in federal funding for Maryland firefighters and first responders […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) with Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, released the following statement after Republicans blocked consideration of the “Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin and David Trone […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin and […]
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WASHINGTON – The United States Senate unanimously passed the SBIR & STTR Reauthorization Act of 2022—bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Maryland’s senior senator, is asking all Marylanders to check their voter registration status today, National Voter Registration Day. Election Day is Tuesday, November […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Special Representative on Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Intolerance for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly, released the following statement […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) led the Senate this week in recognizing the dedication of frontline health care workers with their resolution (S. Res. […]
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WASHINGTON –U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger and John Sarbanes (all D-Md.) announced $23,156,355 in federal funding to support improvements at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport […]
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WASHINGTON –U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (all D-Md.) today announced $1,696,734 in federal funding to support improvements at the Easton/Newnam Field airport. The funds are provided through the Department of […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) today […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) announced today that their proposal to provide $636 million for the major infrastructure overhaul of the Coast Guard Yard in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) and Chair of the Subcommittee on State Department Management, praised bipartisan approval today […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, lauded committee approval today of the Taiwan Policy Act of 2022. The legislation would […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Kweisi Mfume, Jamie B. Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $822,780 in federal funding for AmeriCorps […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) have introduced a Senate joint resolution (S.J.Res.62) that would authorize placement of the National Memorial to Fallen Journalists between […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) issued the following statement today in response to Republican legislation to impose a federal ban on abortion. “Every lawmaker who cheered the Supreme […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) released the following statement in observance of the 21st anniversary of the September 11 attacks. “Today, we mark the anniversary of the deadly […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Jamie B. Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $108,942 in federal funding for the National Park Service to […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) announced today the inclusion of $46,667,000 in direct federal funding for local projects across the Baltimore region within the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) announced today the inclusion of $29,890,000 in direct federal funding for local projects on the Eastern Shore within the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) announced the inclusion of $20,128,000 in direct federal funding for local projects in Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties within […]
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WASHINGTON –U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) announced today the inclusion of $16,892,000 in direct federal funding for local projects in Western Maryland within the Senate Appropriations […]
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WASHINGTON –U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) announced today the inclusion of $10,170,000 in direct federal funding for local projects in Anne Arundel County and Southern Maryland […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) led 10 of his colleagues in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas asking for […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) released the following statement in response to President Joe Biden’s cancellation of up to $20,000 of federal student loan debt for those making […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joined Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), alongside U.S. Representatives John Sarbanes (D-Md.-03), Joe Courtney […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin and U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) lauded the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announcement today that […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger and Andy Harris (all Md.) announced $344,960 to help enroll at least 62 new students, primarily […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) […]
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WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger (all D-Md.) announced $20,000,000 to complete the final design work for the replacement of the 115-year-old Susquehanna River Bridge […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.), a senior member of the Small Business Committee, today sent […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Anthony Brown, and Jamie B. Raskin (all D-Md.) today announced $3,961,485 in federal funding for EasterSeals Head Start projects in […]
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WASHINGTON – On the one-year anniversary of the fall of the Afghan government to the Taliban, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Operations, is urging USAID to clarify […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $629,718 in federal funding through the Department of Education’s highly competitive […]
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Senator highlights measures to lower prescription drug, health insurance and energy costs Cardin also celebrates important steps forward on job creation, climate change and agricultural resilience WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), with Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin and David Trone (all […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) spoke from the floor of the Senate this afternoon in advance of today’s 95-1 vote on the accession of the Republic of Finland […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, today announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $22.9 million American Rescue Plan […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today convened a hearing on the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA’s) COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan […]
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WASHINGTON —U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.) and Senators Tim Kaine and Mark R. Warner (Both D-Va.), with Senators Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla (Both D-Calif.) […]
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WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Chairman of the SFRC Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate or Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) today joined with more than […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, John Sarbanes, Andy Harris MD, Kweisi Mfume and David Trone met Wednesday in the U.S. […]
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Cardin points to new program for underserved harbors as highly important to state’s smaller navigation channels and harbors in need of dredging Senator also highlights newly established statewide authorization for […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) released the following statement on Senate passage of the “CHIPS + Science” bill. “The United States Senate today showed the nation that we […]
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WASHINGTON – Helsinki Commission Chairman Senator Ben Cardin (Md.) and Co-Chairman Rep. Steve Cohen (Tenn.-09) today expressed deep concern about an effort by the international community’s High Representative in Bosnia […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen John Sarbanes and Dutch Ruppersberger (all D-Md.) today announced $900,000 in federal funding to improve access to Tipton Airport […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced the Supporting Seniors with Opioid Use Disorder Act of 2022. The bipartisan legislation would implement recommendations from a […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman John Sarbanes (all D-Md.) Tuesday announced $4,000,000 in federal funding to support noise mitigation efforts for residents living near […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) released the following statement in commemoration of the 32nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). “Thirty-two years ago today, the Americans […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today issued a statement after the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that the federal government […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) led a dozen of their colleagues Monday in complementary letters to the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons […]
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U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3.2 million grant to the city of Annapolis, Maryland, […]
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U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen John Sarbanes and Anthony Brown (all D-Md.) today announced $1,114,539 in federal funding through the Department of Transportation to help […]
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WASHINGTON — On Friday, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (Md.-06), joined Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra in Frederick and Montgomery counties […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), chair and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on State Department and USAID Operations, lauded unanimous Senate approval […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a member of the bipartisan Senate election reform working group, released the following statement today in response to the introduction of the group’s […]
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U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA), along with Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), today announced $2,400,000 in American Rescue Plan (ARP) […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today issued the following statement on the Federal Highway Administration’s recently announced proposed rule for states and metropolitan areas to track and reduce […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee with oversight responsibility for Peace Corps management and international operations, along with Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) […]
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WASHINGTON – The full Maryland congressional delegation, including U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) andcolleagues today called on the Biden administration to continue to protect displaced Venezuelans by extending and re-designating Venezuela for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). In […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (all D-Md.) today urged the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) to pause its plans to demolish the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), along seven Democratic Senate colleagues, today introduced a resolution condemning consistently high levels of violence against journalists […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) praised the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for including an expansion of dental health coverage under Medicare in a key list […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), chair and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on State Department and USAID Operations, announced Friday that […]
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WASHINGTON– Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger (all D-Md.) announced $319,200 to invest in Harford County’s travel, tourism, and outdoor recreation. This investment […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin, and David Trone […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) have announced their direct federal funding requests for Maryland community projects under the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, […]
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BALTIMORE – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia […]
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“The Biden administration made the right decision to terminate the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy of the Trump administration, so I am pleased with the Supreme Court’s decision today. This Trump […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) announced their direct federal funding requests for Maryland community projects under the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee for fiscal year 2023. The Senators […]
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WASHINGTON— U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) announced the passage last week of a Senate Resolution (S.Res.699) they authored to celebrate the University of Maryland Men’s Lacrosse […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, John Sarbanes, Anthony G. Brown, and Jamie Raskin (all D-Md.) today urged Maryland Transit Solutions (MTS), the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), author of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, is urging President Joe Biden to use his July trip to Saudi Arabia to […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) called on U.S. Navy leadership […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) yesterday presented Army Specialist Ronald Dolecki, a veteran residing in Huntingtown, Maryland, with a Prisoner of War (POW) Medal […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) issued the following statement in the wake of the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson that overturns the precedents of Roe v. […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and colleagues today called on Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Becerra […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) called Senate passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act “an important step forward today to break the decades-long gridlock on gun safety.” He […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) and Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-Va.) today released the following statement regarding Washington Metropolitan Area […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), today introduced new legislation toreauthorize the Peace Corps for the first time in over two decades with Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Jim Risch […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today urged U.S. Senate Commerce Committee leaders to include their Service to Fleet Act – legislation the Senators introduced […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today introduced legislation to provide grants to hard-hit small businesses that can demonstrate substantial losses in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) issued the following response to the Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen that strikes down […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) hailed the unanimous passage Wednesday of much of their bipartisan retirement security legislation, S. 1770, the Retirement Security and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) urged the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand dental health coverage under Medicare. In a letter […]
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WASHINGTON—Following the European Commission’s recommendation that Ukraine and Moldova be granted EU candidate status, Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (Md.), Co-Chairman Rep. Steve Cohen (Tenn.-09), and Ranking Members Sen. […]
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WASHINGTON – On the heels of World Refugee Day (June 20), U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA-33) were joined by 19 of their […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin and David Trone (all […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer and Anthony Brown (all D-Md.) today released the following statement announcing the General Services Administration’s finding […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today announced their introduction of a bill to invest over $600 million in major infrastructure modernization efforts at the Coast […]
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WASHINGTON—Following the temporary disappearance of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his subsequent transfer to an infamously severe prison colony in Melekhovo, Russia, Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Special Representative on Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Intolerance for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly, today issued the following […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joins a bipartisan push, led by Senators Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), urging the Biden Administration to maintain the United States Security Coordinator […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) released the following statement on 84-14 Senate passage of H.R. 3967, the Honoring Our PACT Act, which is bipartisan legislation to provide veterans […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) today announced their direct federal funding requests for Maryland community projects under the Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations […]
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WASHINGTON – As Metro announces the return to service of some 7000-Series cars, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.) and Mark Warner and Tim Kaine (Both […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) offered the following on the death of Deputy First Class Glenn Hilliard of the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office, who was killed in the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Andy Harris, M.D. and David Trone (all Md.) today announced $9,219,719 in federal funding for Eastern Shore and Western Maryland […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement on the […]
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WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) joined Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Chairwoman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, in hosting a ceremony dedicating two […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) lauded unanimous passage in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday of S. Res.124, the first official acknowledgement by Congress […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) introduced a Senate resolution recognizing June as LGBTQ Pride Month. The […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.), along with Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Chairwoman of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee with oversight over federal elections, […]
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BALTIMORE – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md) released the following statement regarding the mass shooting this afternoon at Columbia Machine (formerly Bikle Manufacturing), in Smithburg, Md. “A horrible tragedy has […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) praised unanimous passage by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today of S. 1106, the Fighting Emerging […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), and Chris Coons (D-Del.) today applauded committee passage of their resolution […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (all D-Md.) today announced $1,937,953 in federal funding to enhance shoreline restoration and coastal resiliency at the Piney Point Lighthouse […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) announced their requests to provide direct federal investments for homeland security projects across Maryland for the Fiscal Year […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $7,050,429 to support AmeriCorps’ service […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) today released the following statement welcoming the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announcement that Dr. Kandis Boyd will direct […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md), issued the following statement in celebration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Queer and Intersex LGBTQI+ Pride Month. “This June marks 53 years since […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) announced their direct federal funding requests for Maryland community projects under the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and fellow Chesapeake Bay State-senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Kirstin Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Chris Coons […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, and Anthony Brown (all D-Md.) announced $15,680,000 to improve rail infrastructure and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer and Anthony Brown (all D-Md.), and Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks today announced that they successfully […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume, (all D-Md.), Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, and Baltimore County Executive John Olszewski, Jr. today […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, today issued the following statement marking Memorial Day 2022, which will be recognized […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today released the following statement in commemoration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month which runs during the month of May. “Asian Pacific American […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, joined Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and member Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) […]
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WASHINGTON – Two years after the death of George Floyd at the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) offered his support for the public safety […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today announced $1,000,000 to help preserve and restore hundreds of acres of declining wetland habitats across Maryland’sEastern Shore, as well as in Delaware […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today lauded the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA’s) announcement that it has awarded a grant to […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin released the following statement upon confirmation that 19 students and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, were murdered today by a […]
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SOLOMONS, Md. – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (all D-Md.) lauded more than $400 million in federal funding coming to Maryland over the next […]
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SOLOMONS, Md. – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (all D-Md.) lauded more than $400 million in federal funding coming to Maryland over the next […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) have submitted their first requests to provide direct federal investments in our communities (Congressionally Directed Spending) for the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation and co-chair of the Senate NATO Observer […]
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LA PLATA, Md. – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Steny Hoyer (all D-Md.) have announced a federal investment of $5 million they worked to secure for the […]
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WASHINGTON—After Saturday’s announcement by the Russian foreign ministry that the latest list of Americans permanently banned from traveling to Russia includes all members of Helsinki Commission leadership, the overwhelming majority […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) led a bipartisan group of 44 senators in calling for $500 million to fully fund U.S.-Israel […]
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WASHINGTON—Following the approval of legislation in Belarus that would apply the death penalty to pro-democracy activists and those opposing Russia’s war in Ukraine, and ahead of the May 21 commemoration […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today issued a statement after the U.S. Senate failed to meet the 60-vote threshold needed to […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced that Friends of Blackwater, a nonprofit citizens support group, will receive $1,226,000 in federal funding for […]
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WASHINGTON – Ahead of a procedural vote scheduled to occur in the U.S. Senate tomorrow, U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today delivered a […]
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship today passed four bills that will help vulnerable small businesses access broadband, strengthen cybersecurity defenses, ease compliance with federal […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and 49 of their Senate colleagues today wrote a letter to President Joe Biden to urge […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Alex Padilla (D-Ca.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), author of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, and colleagues introduced a resolution Monday honoring Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza and his […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), author of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and Chair of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission), along […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio), a member of the Senate Energy […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Senate lead on legislation to create the National Memorial to Fallen Journalists, released the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) spoke from the floor of the U.S. Senate late Tuesday night, in advance of today’s vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act (S.4132). […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume and Andy Harris (all Md.) today announced $129,731 to fund partnerships between NASA and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.) and Mark Warner and Tim Kaine (Both D-Va.) issued the following joint statement in response to the announcement […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) released the following statements after their Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act, which would […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin and U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Chair Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $5,382,250 in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md), a senior member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, today released the following statement on the committee’s approval of the Kigali Amendment, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Jim Moran (R-Kan.), Thom […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade. Senator Cardin is an original cosponsor […]
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WASHINGTON — On April 28, the OSCE announced that Russia had definitively forced the closure of the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, following its veto of the mission’s mandated […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin, and David Trone (all […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer and Anthony G. Brown (all D-Md.) released the following statement on the transfer of property from the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) released the following statements after the House of Representatives passed their Ukraine Democracy […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today convened a hearing on the Biden administration’s Fiscal Year 2023 (FY2023) budget request for the U.S. […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris and Anthony G. Brown met Tuesday with […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and Special Representative on Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Intolerance for the Organization for Security and Cooperation […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) today […]
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WASHINGTON — Following the detention of four Ukrainian nationals serving as members of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Russian-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine who reportedly were accused of illegal […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) of the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), introduced the Medicaid […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $6,425,646 in federal funding to reimburse the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) today announced the introduction of a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Henrietta Lacks in […]
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WASHINGTON – Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joins his colleagues in a letter to the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) urging it to prioritize transparency, community accessibility, and racial, economic and environmental justice in the design […]
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WASHINGTON—Following the death of Finnish parliamentarian Ilkka Kanerva, Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (Md.), Co-Chairman Rep. Steve Cohen (Tenn.-09), and Ranking Members Sen. Roger Wicker (Miss.) and Rep. Joe […]
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BALTIMORE – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today joined U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman, Baltimore small business owners, and […]
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WASHINGTON—Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (Md.), Co-Chairman Rep. Steve Cohen (Tenn.-09), and Ranking Member Rep. Joe Wilson (S.C.-02) today released a letter sent April 15 to President Biden urging […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $170,699 to help spur economic growth and support minority-owned businesses […]
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WASHINGTON— Following Monday’s arrest of prominent pro-democracy Russian statesman and outspoken Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza, Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (MD), Co-Chairman Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-09), and Ranking Members […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen John Sarbanes, Jamie B. Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $3,582,069 in federal funding to reimburse the Montgomery […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) today […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today issued the following statement on the bipartisan confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the 116th justice of the Supreme Court […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) today urged passage of their legislation to replenish the Restaurant […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chair of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) released the following statements after their Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act, a bill to authorize the President to enter […]
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BALTIMORE – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today were joined by Mayor Brandon Scott and community leaders at the historic Pennsylvania Avenue Market […]
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WASHINGTON — On the anniversary of the death of former Helsinki Commission Chairman Alcee Hastings of Florida, Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (Md.), Co-Chairman Rep. Steve Cohen (Tenn.-09), Ranking […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) joined Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in introducing the Support Kids Not Red Tape Act. The bill extends USDA school meal flexibilities from June […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer and Andy Harris (all Md.) today announced the addition of three historical sites in Maryland as new […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin led a virtual Maryland congressional delegation meeting Tuesday with Senator Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume and David Trone (All D-Md.) with Internal Revenue […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $45,708,416 in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) sent a letter to President Biden urging him to consider new options to target Russia’s economy, focusing on suspending […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today joined 17 Senate colleagues led by Senators Bob Menendez, Cory Booker (both D-N.J.), Mazie Hirono, and Brian Schatz (both D-Hawaii) in urging the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joined his colleagues in a letter to United States Post Office Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, pressing USPS to explain its financial analysis behind […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will release an additional 35,000 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today lauded the Biden administration’s announcement that it will extend the 7(a) Community Advantage Pilot Program […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) praised the House of Representatives today for passing the Securing a Strong Retirement Act by a vote of 414-5. […]
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WASHINGTON – Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md), Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Congressman Anthony Brown (D-Md.), Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, and Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks […]
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“We think it is time for the American presence on the Council to be used to address major human rights problems around the world.” “By unfairly singling out Israel, the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (all D-Md.) today announced $1,277,001 in federal funding for the St. Mary’s County Board of Education’s Head […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today marked the second anniversary of the $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today issued the following statement on Supreme Court Nominee Judge Kentanji Brown Jackson at the conclusion of her confirmation hearings before the Senate […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) – who serve respectively as Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on State Department and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) today welcomed Hitachi Rail’s announcement that Hagerstown, Maryland will be the site of its new train factory which will produce […]
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WASHINGTON – United States Senators Ben Card (D-Md.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) sent a letter to President Biden urging the Administration to designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Cameroon, which […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today lauded the Senate’s bipartisan confirmation of Baltimore City Circuit Judge Julie Rubin to be a U.S. District […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.) announced key provisions in the final Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) Omnibus Appropriations package signed into law by President Biden […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.) announced key provisions in the final Fiscal Year 2022 appropriations package signed into law by President Joe Biden that […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Representatives Bobby Scott (D-Va.-03), John Sarbanes (D-Md.-03) and Abigail Spangberger (D-Va.-07) recently led a […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chair of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe released the following […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), joined by 18 of their colleagues in the Senate and House of Representatives, sent a […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), author of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and a senior member of the Senate Finance and Senate Foreign Relations committees, praised […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today convened a hearing to examine the franchising business model, the opportunities it creates, the role […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) met Tuesday with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, currently a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. […]
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WASHINGTON – Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Steny H. Hoyer, Congressman Anthony Brown (all D-Md.) today secured the inclusion of language to advance the process for a new, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today lauded the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA’s) announcement that the deferment period on all COVID […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined a bipartisan and bicameral group of over 100 colleagues in a letter to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) today announced the inclusion of $2.184 million in direct federal funding for the restoration of the Pequea Creek watershed in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), and Todd Young (R-Ind.) announced that their Israel Relations Normalization Act was included in the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and chair of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, released the following statement on President Joe […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today announced that over $11 million in direct federal funding for local projects in Anne Arundel County and across […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today announced that nearly $9 million in direct federal funding for local projects across the Western Maryland region was […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today announced that over $9.5 million in direct federal funding for local projects across the Eastern Shore region was […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today announced that nearly $50 million in direct federal funding for local projects across the Baltimore region was included […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today announced that over $25 million in direct federal funding for local projects in Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties was […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee and a member of the Finance, Foreign Relations and Environment and Public Works committees, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS), Ben Luján (D-N.M.), Tim Scott (R-SC), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) introduced The Centers for Public […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today issued the following statement on the status of bipartisan legislation to replenish the Restaurant Revitalization Fund […]
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WASHINGTON – On Monday, the United States Senate passed a bipartisan resolution to condemn recent bomb threats towards Historically-Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and to reaffirm the duty of the federal government to protect college […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, today released the following statement on H.R. 3076, the U.S. Postal Service Reform Act, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin, and David Trone […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, John Sarbanes, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $120,145,016 in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced that the Bear Creek Sediments site – adjacent […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.), along with Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and a bipartisan group of senators have introduced a Senate resolution calling […]
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City’s National Heritage Area designation has led to more than $8.6 million in federal grants since its creation in 2009 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Congressman Kweisi Mfume […]
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Funding was made possible by the American Rescue Plan WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) and Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Anthony G. Brown and Jamie B. Raskin (all D-Md.) today announced a $1.7 billion Transportation […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) hosted a discussion following President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union Address with his virtual […]
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“What made me most proud is how President Biden spoke to all Americans about our shared future not from a partisan place, but as one people – the United States […]
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Bipartisan No Trading with Invaders Act would strip Permanent Normal Trading Relations from countries such as Russia that invade other countries and Permanently Extend Magnitsky Sanctions Policy WASHINGTON — U.S. […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, Chair of the Senate EPW Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth, Chair of the Senate EPW Fisheries, Water and Wildlife Subcommittee, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today announced that his virtual guests for President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union Address […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today released the following statement on President Biden’s historic nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Court of the United […]
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WASHINGTON— U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and U.S. Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $75,000 in federal funding, along with $75,000 in local matching funds for […]
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WASHINGTON—Following what appears to be a large-scale Kremlin invasion of Ukraine, Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (MD), Co-Chairman Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member Sen. Roger Wicker (MS), and […]
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WASHINGTON—Following Russia’s recognition of parts of Ukraine as “independent,” and the announcement that Russian armed forces would be deployed to protect them, Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (MD), Co-Chairman […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on Russia’s incursion into Ukraine. “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine appears […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee and a member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on Senate passage of […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Jamie Raskin (All D-Md.) today called on U.S. Navy leadership to immediately address poor and unsafe living conditions in […]
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Letter Comes as Lawmakers Continue to Work with Constituents Who are Waiting for 2020 Tax Returns or Cannot Reach IRS Customer Service Representatives WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $167,229 in federal funding to expand rural broadband connectivity in Garrett County. The funding […]
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Legislative fix will improve access to cancer screenings, preventative surgeries, and save lives WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced the Reducing Hereditary Cancer Act, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Representative Cori Bush (D-Mo.) led 100 of their colleagues in urging President Biden to reverse […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) […]
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship today passed four bipartisan bills—S. 1617, S. 2042, S. 2521, and H.R. 3451—to make the U.S. Small Business Administration’s […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, released the following statement […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, praised the announcement today that the […]
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Record funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act promotes strong outdoor recreation economy, underscores importance of fishing and wildlife restoration to Maryland’s economy WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris […]
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Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act continues to support American jobs and Maryland’s clean energy future WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch […]
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The lawmakers renewed push includes the support of over 25 colleagues & points to the clear discrimination Woodson faced in the selection process for a Medal of Honor as a […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today welcomed a $1,841,624 federal grant from the U.S. Environmental […]
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Nationwide, majority Latino, Black and Asian neighborhoods are consistently exposed to higher levels of pollution particles; people of color are more vulnerable to wildfires and climate change-fueled environmental disasters WASHINGTON – […]
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“[D]espite all the lessons learned from this deadly pandemic, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is still failing to protect people in its custody.” WASHINGTON – A dozen U.S. Senators, […]
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Senators press agency leadership for additional assistance to reduce violent crime, especially homicides WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.) Monday continued their work to […]
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“We must act with urgency to address these injustices and ensure the safety of our HBCU communities,” the Senators write WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced that Civic Works in Baltimore will receive $200,000 for workforce […]
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The Full Text of The Senators’ Letter Can Be Found Here WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joined Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) who led a group of colleagues in […]
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Larger than the rail cars alone, WMATA’s challenges involve thinking through the long-term transit needs of our region and how the Metro system can evolve and adapt to post-pandemic ridership […]
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One year after the military takeover in Burma, Senate unites in call for a return to civilian rule WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.), both […]
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Americans registered 5.4 million new business applications in 2021—highest total on record WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today convened a hearing […]
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WASHINGTON – As the one-year anniversary of the February 1, 2021 military coup against democratically-elected leadership in Burma approaches, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), senior member of the Senate Foreign […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) along with more than 190 congressional Democrats, submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of West Virginia v. Environmental […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today urged President Joe Biden to take immediate action to finalize regulations addressing the threat of unserialized firearms – […]
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WASHINGTON – Two years to the day after Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) continue […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) […]
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WASHINGTON — On the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau in Nazi-occupied Poland, which is designated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, U.S. Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin […]
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As of late December 2021, the IRS continued to have a backlog of 6 million individual income tax returns and 2.3 million amended individual tax returns WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators […]
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Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will invest $1.25 billion regionally over the next five years WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin, Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Transportation and […]
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While New Guidance Requires Most Insurance Companies to Cover Rapid Tests, Lawmakers Urge Inclusion of Medicare WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) joined Senator […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) sent a letter to Catherine Russell, the newly-appointed Executive Director of the United […]
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Lawmakers urge OMB to support interagency transfer of more than 100 acres to better protect headwaters of Patuxent and Anacostia rivers, improve public access WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin […]
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WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease […]
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Senators recommended Judge Rubin to President Joe Biden WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today praised the Judiciary Committee’s bipartisan approval of Judge Julie […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) released the following statement after the Senate failed to move forward the “Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act.” “I am bitterly disappointed […]
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“We’re trying to restore the Senate to a body that can work together by requiring the members to come to the floor and speak and vote.” WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $396 million in Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation […]
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$37.5 million for Mid-Bay Islands project ensures clear shipping channels in the Chesapeake Bay and supports growth and competitiveness of Port of Baltimore Corps’ plan also responds to senators’ calls […]
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Proposed commission would complement work already being done by their Foreign Relations Subcommittee WASHINGTON — United States Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Ranking Member and Chair respectively of the Senate Foreign […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Environment and Public Works Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee released the following statement upon news that Paul Wiedefeld, General Manager and […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) introduced legislation to remove the name of Francis G. Newlands from Chevy Chase Circle. Newlands, a former U.S. […]
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BALTIMORE – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Special Representative on Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Intolerance for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly released the following statement […]
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$81 million will be immediately deployed to help fix 270 Maryland bridges in need of repair WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, […]
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Legislation aims to combat corruption, hold human rights abusers accountable WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today applauded the passage by the full Senate of their legislation, the […]
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BALTIMORE – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee and a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, released the following statement in […]
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BALTIMORE – In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 17, 2022, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) released the following statement. Senator Cardin serves as Chairman of the U.S. Helsinki […]
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WASHINGTON—Ahead of the one-year anniversary of Alexei Navalny’s arrest on January 17, Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (MD), Co-Chairman Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member Sen. Roger Wicker (MS), […]
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BALTIMORE – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, welcomed news Friday that the Biden-Harris administration will send Maryland $81.9 […]
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WASHINGTON—Following the first charges filed under the Helsinki Commission’s Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act for a doping scheme at the Tokyo Olympics, Helsinki Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (MD), Co-Chairman Rep. Steve Cohen […]
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Bipartisan legislation calls for prioritizing professional training and development that will strengthen national security WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Senator Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Chair and Ranking Member […]
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Senators call on FDA to lengthen expiration dates, where possible, to help mitigate drug shortages WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) today introduced the bipartisan […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), former Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates, released the following statement on news of the death of Stephen Sachs, who served as […]
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Members of Maryland’s congressional delegation gathered virtually Tuesday for their first official meeting with the newly appointed regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region III, Adam Ortiz. […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today joined 31 of their Senate Democratic colleagues in formally requesting that the Biden administration grant Temporary Protected Status […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen John Sarbanes, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $973,741 in federal funding for Montgomery College to better […]
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WASHINGTON—In response to the violent clashes between protesters and authorities in Kazakhstan, Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (MD), Co-Chairman Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-09), and Ranking Member Rep. Joe Wilson […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today released the following statement on the passing of former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. “I am deeply saddened by the news of […]
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The Maryland Delegation Wrote to Postmaster General DeJoy in November Requesting an Update on their Readiness for Holiday Mail Surge WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today […]
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WASHINGTON — As the latest court proceedings conclude for Russian human rights group Memorial International, U.S. Helsinki Commission Chairman Senator Ben Cardin (MD), Co-Chairman Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.), along with Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) are supporting […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) along with Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) led a group of eight senators in calling on Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and […]
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Seeking Fix of New Temporary Waiver Period to Allow Public Student Loan Forgiveness Credit for Return Peace Corps Volunteers WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Chris Van Hollen […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardina and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone today announced $280,254 in federal funding for the Frederick Mobile Crisis Team. The team brings police […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, Andy Harris, M.D. and […]
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Senators had recommended Judge Rubin to President Joe Biden WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today urged the Judiciary Committee to swiftly process the […]
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Senator welcomes passage of national security provisions, but says bill comes up short on human rights, corruption, small business WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of […]
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WASHINGTON—Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Cardin (MD), Co-Chairman Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member Sen. Roger Wicker (MS), and Ranking Member Rep. Joe Wilson (SC-02) today welcomed the passage of the […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and a bipartisan group of senators including Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) wrote Tuesday to Under Secretary of State for Civilian […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, the Maryland Congressional delegation including U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Steny H. Hoyer, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. […]
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WASHINGTON – U .S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, Andy Harris, M.D. […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced […]
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WASHINGTON—The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, today announced the following online briefing: DEFENDING UKRAINE, DETERRING PUTINThursday, December 16, 202110:00 a.m. Register: https://bit.ly/3DHAGWu The […]
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According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 100 occupations only require an associate degree or postsecondary non-degree credential CREATE Graduates Act will remove barriers for community college students who transferred […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, John Sarbanes, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced federal funding to support […]
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WASHINGTON – Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chairman of the Subcommittee On State Department And USAID Management, International Operations, joined Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ranking Member […]
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WASHINGTON—Following the death of Senator Bob Dole, Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (MD), Co-Chairman Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member Sen. Roger Wicker (MS), and Ranking Member Rep. Joe […]
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Senators call on Corps to tackle backlog of dredging projects for small ports and channels, quickly transition from Poplar Island to Mid-Bay restoration WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and […]
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WASHINGTON—Following the recent ruling of a Turkish court that will keep philanthropist Osman Kavala jailed until his trial begins in January 2022 and the subsequent decision by the Council of […]
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BRUSSELS, LONDON, WASHINGTON—At a virtual kickoff event on December 7, leaders of the U.S. Caucus against Foreign Corruption and Kleptocracy, the EU Parliament Anti-Corruption Intergroup, and the UK All-Party Parliamentary […]
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WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) announced $1,202,449 in new American Rescue Plan funding for the Hagerstown Regional Airport ($1,143,449) and […]
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Funds will Strengthen Water Infrastructure, Access to Clean Water and Protect Environment WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, […]
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Human Rights Activist Speaks Out After Tehran Plotted to Kidnap Her From Brooklyn Home WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) today held a press conference […]
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Administrative actions mirror legislation Cardin introduced this year to reverse years-long decline in number of underserved small businesses doing business with federal agencies & ensure small business participation in infrastructure […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee and a member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on Senate passage of […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all […]
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“Today, approximately 1.2 million Americans are living with HIV, and they are able to lead healthier and safer lives due to increased access to care under the Patient Protection & […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $795,146 for the University of Maryland Medical […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Anthony G. Brown and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $3 million in federal funding to hire 24 law enforcement professionals in […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, Andy Harris, M.D., […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume and Jamie Raskin (all D-Md.) today announced $3.3 million from the Federal […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman John Sarbanes (all D-Md.) announced $450,000 in federal funding for the Housing Authority of the City of Annapolis. These funds […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced an award of $22 million in federal […]
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WASHINGTON—Following last week’s request by Russian prosecutors to liquidate the human rights group Memorial International and the Memorial Human Rights Center, Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (MD), Co-Chairman Rep. […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen David Trone, Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and Andy […]
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WASHINGTON—On the 12-year anniversary of the death of Sergei Magnitsky, Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (MD), Co-Chairman Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member Sen. Roger Wicker (MS), and Ranking […]
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“For too long, Americans heard talk in Washington about infrastructure, but no action. “President Joe Biden, with a bipartisan effort in Congress, is taking real, meaningful action and providing a […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $3,735,333 in federal juvenile justice funding for […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today issued the following statement in recognition of Veterans Day, which is Thurs., November 11. “On Veterans Day, we pause to thank those […]
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WASHINGTON—Following the invocation of the OSCE’s Vienna Mechanism to address the mounting human rights crisis in Belarus, Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (MD), Co-Chairman Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking […]
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Measure Included in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today issued the following statement on […]
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WASHINGTON – Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joined seven of his Senate Colleagues, led by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), in writing a letter to President Joe Biden in […]
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Senators request update on State’s progress & plans to avoid losing funds to help Marylanders stay in their homes WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joined Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bill Cassidy (R-La.), and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the […]
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Senators request update on State’s progress & plans to avoid losing funds to help Marylanders stay in their homes WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen John Sarbanes and Andy Harris, M.D (all Md.) today announced $16,143.76 in federal funding for Anne Arundel and […]
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WASHINGTON—Following the November 3 confirmation of Michael Carpenter as Permanent Representative of the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, Andy Harris, M.D., and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) today introduced legislation to require that government agencies comply with Freedom of Information Act […]
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WASHINGTON —Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today expressed his disappointment that the Republican members of the Committee intend to continue their months-long […]
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15 Senators join Cardin and Padilla in letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to ensure proposed investments in our nation’s infrastructure and transportation policies equitably serve all communities WASHINGTON— U.S. […]
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Republican minority again blocks new law to protect the sacred right to vote, clearly spotlighting need for filibuster reform WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today released the following […]
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Lawmakers point to federal passage of bipartisan VOCA Fix and urge the governor to utilize over $50 million in unused funds immediately available to address this issue WASHINGTON – U.S. […]
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Senators had recommended Judge Rubin to President Joe Biden WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today praised President Joe Biden’s nomination of Baltimore City Circuit Judge Julie Rubin […]
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WASHINGTON – Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md). and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), SFRC Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere Ranking Member Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Chairman of the House […]
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services awards Maryland’s Museums and Libraries funding through its American Rescue Plan Grants WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, with Congressman Anthony Brown (All D-Md.) have introduced new bicameral legislation to secure the U.S. Service Academy nominations of states […]
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VBOC Celebrates Grand Opening on First Day of National Veterans Small Business Week WASHINGTON – On the first day of National Veterans Small Business Week, U.S. Senate Committee on Small […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) reintroduced legislation to expand access to education for Americans in federal prisons. The Promoting […]
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“The time for talk is over. Let’s get this done so every Marylander can feel the benefits.” WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, Chair of the Senate Small Business and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Special Representative on Anti-Semitism, Racism and Intolerance for the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, released the following statement on the third anniversary of the deadly […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin and David Trone […]
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Chairman Calls Women-Owned Small Businesses “Growth Engine” for Recovery from COVID-19 Pandemic WASHINGTON – As National Women’s Small Business Month draws to a close, U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) joined Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) in urging President Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi to […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today released the following expression of gratitude to Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, who this week announced his retirement. “Brian Frosh has been […]
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In joint letter, senators urge greater transparency and communications with riders WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.) and Mark Warner and Tim Kaine (Both […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) praised passage today in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of their legislation, the Haiti Development, Accountability, and Institutional Transparency […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship, and Senator Chris Van Hollen, along with Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John […]
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ELLICOTT City, Md. – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) released the following statement on the passing of General Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint […]
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Members of Congress introduce legislation to reduce intimidation and violence against those who witness criminal activity and testify in court ELLICOTT CITY – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Congressman Kweisi Mfume […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship, and Senator Chris Van Hollen, along with Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin and David Trone […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) issued the following statement in commemoration of Hispanic Heritage Month which ran from September 15 through October 15. His statement was included in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin and David Trone […]
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WASHINGTON – As Maryland and many other states across the U.S. confront an unprecedented housing affordability crisis, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.) are working closely […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Todd Young (R-Ind.), all members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement on […]
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BALTIMORE – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement on the appointment by President Joe Biden of […]
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WASHINGTON—Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (MD) and Ranking Member Sen. Roger Wicker yesterday introduced a measure that would require the administration to evaluate the Navalny 35 for Global Magnitsky sanctions. The […]
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WASHINGTON – Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joined 15 of his Senate colleagues, led by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), in sending a letter to Secretary of Homeland […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) Thursday were joined by their Chesapeake […]
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WASHINGTON—Following the award of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia “for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John P. Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen both D-Md.) today introduced the 1st Lt. Hugh Conor McDowell Safety in Armed Forces Equipment Act of 2021, legislation to establish […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman John Sarbanes (all D-Md.) today announced $476,777 in federal funding for Towson University to improve educator development and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) released the following statement on the passing of former Baltimore County Executive Ted Venetoulis. “Myrna and I are mourning the loss of our […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin and David Trone (all […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) applauded the Biden administration for streamlining the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program for more than half a million public servants, including teachers, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) applaud Maryland’s $2.5 […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.), along with nearly 50 of their senate colleagues, reintroduced legislation Tuesday to restore the landmark Voting Rights Act […]
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“This unprecedented investigation should further drive the need for transparency and delving deeper into such international transactions.” WASHINGTON—Following the release of the Pandora Papers, Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin […]
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Legislation holds the Burmese military accountable for its February 1 coup and ongoing crisis in Burma WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin, and David Trone […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer and Anthony G. Brown (all D-Md.) today announced $9,899,758 in American Rescue Plan funding for […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), joined a group of senate colleagues, led by Sens. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), in sending a letter to DHS Secretary Mayorkas […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, today issued the following statement in response to the Ethiopian government’s expulsion of seven […]
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WASHINGTON – The Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a resolution led by U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) that designates October as National Retirement Security Month. The […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the Special Representative on Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Intolerance for the 57-nation Organization Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly, today called on the […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joined Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), along with 117 Senators and Members of the House, in sending a letter to […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) released a statement today on a recent report issued by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The […]
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WASHINGTON—In response to Russian intransigence blocking the annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM), Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (MD), Co-Chairman Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member Sen. Roger […]
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WASHINGTON—In light of yesterday’s termination of the activities of the OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk on the Russian-Ukrainian border, Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin […]
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Senators recommended Delegate Barron to President Joe Biden WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today applauded the Senate’s confirmation of Delegate Erek Barron to be the U.S. Attorney […]
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WASHINGTON – The full Maryland congressional delegation, including U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee and a member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on the passage of […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $7,500,000 in federal funding for Morgan State University, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was joined by Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Ranking Member and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) today wrote to Secretary of State Antony Blinken to register their growing concerns […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee and a member of the Senate Finance Committee, released the following statement on Republican […]
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WASHINGTON—The leadership of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, is pleased to welcome Edward A. White, Michael Hikari Cecire, and Bakhti Nishanov […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.) are urging the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to increase support for a critical runway expansion at Salisbury-Ocean City […]
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“We have a menu of help for America’s small businesses and we’re not finished yet.” BALTIMORE – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) was […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today applauded the Judiciary Committee’s approval of Delegate Erek Barron to be the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland. “Maryland needs […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), lead Senate author of the End Racial and Religious Profiling Act and the Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act, both of which are […]
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Bipartisan resolution will raise awareness, help more Americans learn about accessing care through telehealth WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), along with Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Roger Wicker […]
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GAO: “If U.S. roads aren’t built to withstand changes in the climate, they may be unsafe routes for emergency evacuations and expensive to fix after a disaster. Climate-related damages to […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken commending the Biden administration for continuing the United States’ […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) was joined by Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Ranking Member […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) have joined their colleagues in filing bicameral amicus brief in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, urging the Supreme Court […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), today introduced the Maritime Technological Advancement Act. The legislation would […]
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Leaders test drove electric vehicles and emphasized the growing importance of green infrastructure WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Congressman Anthony G. Brown (both D-Md.), local leaders, car dealers […]
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GOP Committee Members Continue to Block SBA Deputy Administrator Nominee SBA Has Not Had a Full Leadership Team Since 2018 WASHINGTON – The Republican members of the U.S. Senate Committee […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement in response to the executive order signed by President Joe […]
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WASHINGTON—Following the sham State Duma elections in Russia, Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (MD), Co-Chairman Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-09), and Ranking Members Sen. Roger Wicker (MS) and Rep. Joe […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Kweisi Mfume, Dutch Ruppersberger, and John Sarbanes (all D-Md.) recently wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland and U.S. […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) along with Senators Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) have introduced bipartisan legislation to award Congressional Gold Medals […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement in response to thousands of Haitians currently in Texas at […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) announced $6,898,433 in federal funding to reimburse Baltimore City for […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.) and many of their National Capital Region colleagues urged the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to alleviate flight […]
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WASHINGTON –U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $1,480,979 in federal funding to advance clean energy, information technology and biotech training […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today released the following statement in recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from September 15 to October 15. “This month, we especially […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) are leading the Senate again in recognizing the dedication of frontline health care workers with a resolution commemorating September […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), and Todd Young (R-Ind.) today made the following joint statement recognizing the one-year anniversary of the signing […]
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Build Back Better Budget Would Invest $25 Billion in American Small Businesses Call Comes During National Small Business Week WASHINGTON — As the nation celebrates the resilience and renewal of American […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) announced $9,974,703 in federal funding to reimburse Baltimore County for emergency protective measures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic. “During […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) announced $3,814,136 in federal funding to support Maryland hospitals, Sinai Hospital and Northwest Hospital, for emergency protective measures […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John P. Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement in advance of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger (all D-Md.) announced $123,641 in federal funding to expand the Community College of Baltimore County’s Transportation Training Center program from 18 students to 28 […]
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BALTIMORE — U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today issued a statement after the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that it has raised […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Finance Health Care Subcommittee, today released the following statement in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 denial of a […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joined an effort today to push the Biden administration to take crucial steps to curb plastic pollution at America’s national parks. “Nearly 11 […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today joined a group of 30 lawmakers in urging the Biden administration to take specific steps to ensure that humanitarian aid can continue to […]
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Includes more than $50,000 directly from the American Rescue Plan WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Jamie Raskin (all D-Md.) announced $260,000 in federal funding for the Carroll […]
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Includes more than $50,000 directly from the American Rescue Plan WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) announced $500,267 in federal funds for the Easton/Newnam Field Airport in […]
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Includes over $3,250,000 from the American Rescue Plan WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman John Sarbanes (all D-Md.) announced $13,231,306 in federal funding for the Baltimore/Washington International […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a longtime champion for dental care who was responsible for guaranteed pediatric dental coverage in the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Patient […]
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Members point to Maryland’s poor performance compared to other states and continued outreach from constituents left in the lurch WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, joined by U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen […]
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BALTIMORE – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement on the terrorist attack that occurred in Kabul, Afghanistan […]
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These funds will help providers weather the financial difficulties created by the pandemic WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joins 43 bipartisan colleagues in urging U.S. Department of Health and Human […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.)—who both serve on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—joined a bipartisan group of 18 senators in urging the Biden administration […]
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WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, issued the following joint statement with fellow Senate Foreign Relations Committee members: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) signed a bipartisan letter with Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), and 49 Senators urging the Biden administration […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chair of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, along with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair […]
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BALTIMORE – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on the situation in Afghanistan. He was a cosponsor of […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), lead sponsor of the Drug Shortages Prevention and Quality Improvement Act (S. 2595) and the Medicare Dental Benefit Act of 2021 (S. 97), released the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md), along with Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and 20 colleagues have called on Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the State […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has introduced legislation (S.J.Res.22) to repeal the 2001 Authorization for the use of Military […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced […]
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“We have a rare opportunity to reshape our national economy” WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and member of […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee and Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joined Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Chris Van Hollen […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, with Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John P. Sarbanes and Kweisi Mfume (All D-Md.), have written to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) lauded unanimous passage by the Senate Monday […]
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Nearly 2/3 of RRF Applications Remain Unfunded WASHINGTON— U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), along with Senate Majority […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, U.S. Representative David Trone (MD-06) and U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (all D-MD) announced $150,000 in federal funding for improvements to a water distribution […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) are urging Congress to take action to protect patients from prescription drug shortages that could put health outcomes at […]
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RENACER Act requires heightened efforts to confront blatant anti-democratic activity by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the […]
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WASHINGTON — The United States Senate today approved a bipartisan amendment to expand and make permanent the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). The measure, which was sponsored by U.S. Senate […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Environment and Public Works Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee, today announced that five of his first round of Congressionally Directed Spending […]
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Senator delivers commitment to kick-start major project that will recover more than 2,000 acres of important island habitat Project also ensures the maintenance of shipping channels in the Chesapeake […]
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Madam President, I rise in support of the legislation that is before us, the bipartisan infrastructure package. I applaud all those who worked so hard so that we could have […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Anthony Brown (all D-Md.) today announced $1,999,983 in American Rescue Plan funding for Arundel Lodge, Inc., located in Edgewater, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $1,915,270 in American Rescue Plan funding to increase access to mental […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.) announced today that they secured language in the bipartisan infrastructure legislation currently being considered by the Senate that would expedite […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and John Thune (R-S.D.), members of the Senate Finance Committee, and U.S. Reps. Ann Kuster (D-N.H.) and Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) today reintroduced companion versions […]
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Senators: “Congressional investments in workforce training and support are essential to position workers for the new, skilled jobs that are going to be part of the post-pandemic economy.” WASHINGTON —Today, […]
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“USOPC is failing to provide adequate support to the Team USA Paralympic Swimming team.” “A history of slim staffing for athletes at the Olympic and Paralympic games does not make […]
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“We need this first-step infrastructure package not only because we need upgrades and improvements urgently, but because we need the job opportunities that our infrastructure projects will create.” WASHINGTON – […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) today reintroduced legislation that aims to address the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, along with Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) announced the inclusion of provisions from their Reconnecting Communities Act, legislation the two Senators introduced alongside Senator Tom […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) today introduced the SBIC Working Group Act of 2021—legislation to […]
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Program Has Awarded $7.5B to More Than 10,000 Venues Nationwide Cardin Helped Establish Bipartisan $16.25B Program to Support Venues Affected by the Pandemic WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today praised President Joe Biden’s nomination of Delegate Erek Barron to be the new U.S. Attorney for the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) have released their requests for Congressionally Directed Spending for projects under the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, issued the following statement on the bipartisan infrastructure package. “I am […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) have introduced legislation to expand hospital-based violence intervention services and prevention programs for survivors of violent crimes. The Bipartisan […]
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WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) introduced the Modern, Clean, and Safe Trucks Act of 2021. The bipartisan bill would repeal the federal excise tax (FET) on heavy […]
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WASHINGTON – A coalition of congressional leaders from the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committee on Oversight and Reform today commended the Biden Administration for finalizing a rule […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, and Jamie Raskin (all D-Md.) today announced $1,201,379 in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Jamie Raskin and David Trone (D-Md.) today announced $1,381,911 in American Rescue Plan funding for fire and emergency rescue departments […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $378,753 in American Rescue Plan funding for fire […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (all D-Md.) today announced $1,037,955 in American Rescue Plan funding for fire and emergency rescue departments in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (D-Md.) today announced plans to introduce S.2367, the Frederick Jobs and Historic Preservation Training Center Land […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Republicans today boycotted a vote on the nomination of Dilawar Syed to be Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Small Business […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Andy Harris (all Md.) today announced $513,000 in federal funding to finish the construction of the Sudlersville Wastewater Treatment Plant […]
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Named after a civil servant who died of COVID-19 complications, the bill would empower workers & families with critical information about workplace safety plans WASHINGTON – With the COVID-19 delta […]
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Report, requested by lawmakers, includes nine recommendations to mitigate and prevent fatal training accidents WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Congressman Anthony G. Brown, Senator Chris Van Hollen and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen announced Tuesday their Congressionally Directed Spending Requests (Community Spending) for three appropriations bills: (1) Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $575,000 in federal funding to upgrade the Grantsville sewer system in Garrett County. “Upgrading […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken requesting that […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) released their requests for Congressionally Directed Spending for projects under the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee […]
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WASHINGTON – After hearing concerns from veterans across the state, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) joined Senator Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) in calling on the Department […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), co-chairs of the Atlantic Council’s Colombia Task Force, along with Senator Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) joined Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and 20 […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) released their requests for Congressionally Directed Spending for projects under the Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Subcommittee […]
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WASHINGTON – Ahead of the ninth anniversary of Cuban political reformer Oswaldo Payá’s suspicious death, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), along with Senators Marco […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced […]
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First Congressionally Directed Spending Requests in more than a decade seek to help the health of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, wide-ranging environmental and economic projects WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) issued the following statement in advance of the Independence Day holiday, July 4, 2021. “Throughout our history, Americans have celebrated the Fourth of […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) and Representatives Bobby Scott (Va.-03), John Sarbanes (Md.-03) led a bicameral letter to Michael Regan, the Administrator for […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.) today released the following statement upon House passage of legislation to replace in the U.S. Capitol the bust […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $7,939,842 in COVID-19 relief funding […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, and Anthony G. Brown (all D-Md.) today announced $98,263,281 in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer and Anthony Brown (all D-Md.) today announced $5,150,000 in federal funding to purchase electric buses and charging […]
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Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott Attended Yesterday’s Event at White House WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) released the following statement Thursday. “We welcome the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) have introduced the Zero-Emission Nuclear Power Production Credit Act of […]
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Half the U.S. Population Lives in Coastal Counties Threatened by Wetlands Loss WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), along with U.S. Representatives Jared Huffman (D-Calif.-2) […]
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Senators recommended Judge Boardman to President Joe Biden WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today praised the Senate’s confirmation of U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.), and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer (Md.-05), Dutch Ruppersberger (Md.-02), John Sarbanes (Md.-03), Kweisi Mfume (Md.-07), Anthony Brown (Md.-04), Jamie […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) lauded approval today by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of two bills he authored to strengthen U.S. human rights and anti-corruption efforts. Both […]
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Council, Established in 2010, Was Discontinued by Trump Administration WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today issued the following statement after the […]
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Senators’ comprehensive request would quicken recovery in species and habitats, protect clean water, build Bay watershed’s resilience to climate change Senators advocate for $90.5 million in FY22 appropriations for EPA […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) spoke from the floor of the United States Senate Monday to address the importance of passing voting rights legislation. Video of Senator Cardin’s floor statement […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) issued the following statement today in advance of the first federal Juneteenth National Independence Day holiday. Senator Cardin was a cosponsor of S. […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced […]
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WASHINGTON – As the Nation recognizes the anniversaries of the Pulse Nightclub massacre in Orlando and the Emanuel AME Church massacre in Charleston, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joined U.S. […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today praised the Senate’s confirmation of U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Lydia Griggsby to be a U.S. […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joined Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and James Inhofe (R-Okla.), along with a bipartisan group of 38 senators, in urging the Appropriations subcommittee with […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today issued the following statement after the committee advanced the nomination of Dilawar Syed to be Deputy Administrator […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and committee members Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), along with Senator Susan Collins […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and John Thune (R-S.D.), introduced the bipartisan Telemental Health Care Access Act of 2021 to remove barriers […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced legislation with Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today praised the Judiciary Committee’s approval of Judges Deborah Boardman and Lydia Griggsby to serve as U.S. District […]
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“COVID-19 has created the biggest disruption to education that the world has ever seen.” “US leadership is needed now more than ever to ensure … setbacks are not long-lasting.” WASHINGTON […]
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“Until the Chinese Communist Party changes its behavior, we and our allies and partners must hold it accountable. This bill reiterates our strong, bipartisan commitment to working together to call […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) and nearly a dozen of their colleagues introduced the Give Our Athletes Level Salaries (GOALS) Act, which would […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and James Risch (R-Ind.) applauded the Senate passage of their legislative initiative aimed at helping countries facing economic coercion from […]
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Resolution Also Supports U.S. Leadership at WTO WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) applauded passage of their bipartisan resolution expressing support for U.S. leadership in the World Trade […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) have introduced an updated version of the Chronic Kidney Disease Improvement in Research and Treatment Act (S. 1971), which […]
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VBOC at UMD will Provide Services, Training and Support to Veteran Entrepreneurs in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined more than a dozen of their Senate colleagues Friday […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, released the following statement on the National […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) issued the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) joined Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) in introducing a resolution commemorating May as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), after Republicans blocked consideration of legislation to create a bipartisan commission to examine the events of January 6 at the U.S. Capitol, urged […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) released the following statement in commemoration of Memorial Day. “The United States of America has long been an emblem of democracy and our […]
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“Hate takes many forms. None of them should be acceptable here in the United States of America or anywhere else in the world.” WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) and Representative Nydia M. Velázquez (D-N.Y.) today led their colleagues in both the Senate and the House of […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), members of the Senate Finance Committee, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) today reintroduced their Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act to protect the voting rights of all Americans. Their […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, shared the following statement this week as we reach the conclusion of Asian Pacific […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) joined Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) in reintroducing the Census Improving Data and Enhanced Accuracy (Census IDEA) Act, legislation […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) — members of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Senate Foreign […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Subcommittee on Transportation Infrastructure; and Senator Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), the EPW Subcommittee’s Ranking Member, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) joined Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), and 35 of their Senate colleagues in introducing a resolution […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) applauded the Federal Emergency Manage Agency’s (FEMA) announcement that 65 Peace Corps Response volunteers will be deployed to […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) Thursday introduced the Retirement Security & Savings Act (S. 1770), a broad set of reforms designed to strengthen Americans’ retirement security. The bill […]
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Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act is a key piece of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act Legislation addresses police misconduct through the development of uniform national standards, standardized […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) joined Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) in a bipartisan effort calling for increased support for […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) sent a letter to Kathleen McGettigan, Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) regarding President […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Angus King (I-Maine) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) have reintroduced their legislation, S. 1685, the Preventive Health Savings Act, which would direct […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) Mark Warner (D-Va), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen gathered with Representatives Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, and John Sarbanes (all D-Md.), Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott, and local leaders […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen John Sarbanes, Andy Harris, M.D. and David Trone (all Md.) today announced $22,857,386 in federal funding to expand and […]
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WASHINGTON—Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Ranking Member Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and today reintroduced the Transnational Repression Accountability and Prevention (TRAP) Act to counter the politically-motivated abuse […]
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WASHINGTON – In response to the escalating cycle of violence between Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem that has led to Hamas firing rockets indiscriminately into Israel, including several toward Jerusalem […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today introduced U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Boardman and U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Lydia Griggsby to the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced more […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-IN) and nearly […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee (T&I), led a hearing today on “Equity in Transportation Infrastructure: Connecting […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $260,000 in federal funding to the Asian American Center of Frederick. Funding comes […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee released the following statement marking World Press Freedom Day. “This is not an easy time […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) have introduced a resolution marking April as Minority Health Month, to highlight the ongoing disparities in health care and health […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.) and Mark Warner and Tim Kaine (Both D-Va.) are urging President Joe Biden to resume the process of […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) have reintroduced the World Press Freedom Protection and Reciprocity Act, which seeks to protect and promote worldwide press freedom […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), along with Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Cory A. Booker (D-N.J.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), are urging Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman, U.S. […]
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CONNECT For Health Act Holds Broad Bipartisan Support, Most Comprehensive Legislation On Telehealth In Congress WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ven Cardin (D-Md.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), John […]
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“This bipartisan legislation takes important steps toward maintaining critical infrastructure networks and shoring up America’s aging drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure against the costly threat of climate change.” WASHINGTON – U.S. […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone […]
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“President Biden’s optimism for our country was front and center, along with his desire to work with Congress to do right by the American people.” WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee and a senior member of the Senate committees on Finance, Foreign Relations and Environment […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) joined Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and a group of their Senate colleagues in sending a letter to President […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) today introduced the Public Buildings Renewal Act, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $802,000 in federal funding to replace the water distribution lines in the Town of […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) introduced the Home Health Emergency Access to Telehealth (HEAT) Act. Their bipartisan bill […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joined 16 of his Senate colleagues in sending a letter to President Biden asking him to include proposals to expand Medicare in his forthcoming […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer and Andy Harris, M.D., (all Md.) today announced more than $2.8 million in federal funding to modernize […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chair of the State Department Operations Subcommittee, issued the following statement on the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) today urged the Biden Administration to outline its plans to distribute Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines to the global […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) joined Senators Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) and a bipartisan group of their Senate colleagues in sending […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) today introduced the Water Resources Research Amendments Act, a bill to reauthorize federal […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and Chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, released the following statement […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Small Business Committee and a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Rob Portman (R-Ohio), also a member of […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, lauded committee passage today of the bipartisan Strategic Competition Act, which he cosponsored. The […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, and Anthony G. Brown (all D-Md.) today announced more […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today convened a hearing on the nomination of Dilawar Syed to be Deputy Administrator of the […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.), U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved an amendment offered by U.S. Senator Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), along with Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Ind.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joined Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee Health Care Subcommittee, Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) today in reintroducing […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio), both members of the Senate Finance Committee, have introduced the Small […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) issued the following statement in response to former police officer Derek Chauvin being convicted in the death of George Floyd. “America’s justice system […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and U.S. Senators James Lankford (R-Okla.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Angus King (I-Maine), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Rob […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.), along with Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-Va.), today applauded an announcement by the Biden administration that it […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) joined Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), and Senator Chris Coons […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman John Sarbanes (all D-Md.) today announced $3 million in federal funding to strengthen flood prevention and stormwater infrastructure in Annapolis. […]
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WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Representative Ami Bera (CA-07), a member of the U.S. House Foreign […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and chair of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, issued the following statement in response to sanctions […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) announced Thursday that Senators Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) have joined as bipartisan cosponsors of S.J.Res. 1, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today reintroduced the Keep Americans Safe Act, renewing a concerted effort to ban the importation, sale, manufacturing, transfer, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Representatives Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.-08) and Mike Waltz (R-Fla.-06) today introduced new legislation to assess and accelerate progress in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) today […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Andy Harris, M.D., (all Md.) today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded a sizable $1,023,818 federal […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) today […]
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WASHINGTON—Following the death of former Helsinki Commission Chairman Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (Fla.-20) earlier today, Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Helsinki Commission leaders Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) […]
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Pollution limits – that are crucial to the health of the Bay – went unenforced by the Trump Administration WASHINGTON –U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Tom […]
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“Myrna and I send our condolences during this heartbreaking time to the Evans family and the Capitol Police Officers, who continue to stand watch 365 days a year, 24 hours […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $11.9 million in federal […]
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Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee Chair calls proposal a bold national investment in the things that make our lives safer, cleaner, more efficient Plan includes Cardin-Portman Neighborhood Homes Investment Act to […]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Anthony G. Brown and Steny H. Hoyer (all D-Md.) applauded the announcement that the Federal Emergency Management Agency […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $15.45 million in emergency federal funding to […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, today issued the following statement upon the State Department’s release of the Human […]
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(Washington, D.C.) — U.S. President Joe Biden today signed into law the PPP Extension Act of 2021—legislation introduced by U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today praised President Joseph Biden’s nomination of U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Boardman and U.S. Court of Federal Claims […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $100,000 in federal funding for Frostburg State University for the Western Maryland […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer and Senator Chris Van Hollen (all D-Md.) released the following statement regarding the announcement of the Indian Head Naval […]
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Congressional delegation also announces more than $23 Million in separate funding for CHCs and to further eliminate health disparities and enhance services for expectant mothers and infants WASHINGTON – U.S. […]
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Bipartisan Legislation Builds on Success of Abraham Accords by Stating it is U.S. Policy to Strengthen and Expand Normalization Agreements WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Rob Portman […]
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate today passed the PPP Extension Act of 2021 by a vote of 92-7. The bill was introduced by Senate Small Business Committee Chair Ben Cardin […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), […]
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WASHINGTON—The Presiding Officer, on behalf of the Vice President, yesterday announced the appointment of Sen. Ben Cardin (MD) as chair of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today released the following statement applauding the signing of breakthrough Maryland legislation to provide $577 million in additional funding for Bowie State University, […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Rick Scott (R-Fla.), welcomed the Senate Foreign Committee on Relations […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure (Environment and Public Works Committee) lauded bipartisan approval today (20-0) of a bill to rebuild […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations (SFRC) Subcommittee with oversight jurisdiction for the U.S. Agency for International Development, released the following statement after […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $18,395,149.50 in emergency federal funding to deliver […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone released the following statement […]
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(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today issued a statement after the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that the Shuttered […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (Both D-Md.) today filed updated legislation to designate Southern Maryland as a National Heritage Area (NHA) to further commemorate, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer and John Sarbanes (all D-Md.) today announced $3,145,447 in federal funding to expand early childhood […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, has introduced S.832, legislation that will establish the federal government as a […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joined Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio), co-chairs of the Senate Career and Technical Education (CTE) Caucus, and U.S. Representatives Andy Levin (D-Mich.-09) and Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio-16) […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-MD) joined Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), along with a number […]
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Congress must not stand in the way of finally enshrining equality for women into our Constitution. WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), lead sponsor of Senate Joint Resolution 1, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Isabel Guzman to […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), and 26 of their Senate colleagues introduced the Protecting Americans with Preexisting […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, Chris Van Hollen and Congressman John Sarbanes (both D-Md.) joined a bicameral group of lawmakers and more than 30 regional organizations in forming a Working […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today announced that the Purple Line light rail project connecting Montgomery and Prince George’s County is expected to […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joined Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and nine of their Senate colleagues today in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today commended the Senate’s confirmation of Judge Merrick B. Garland to be the 86th Attorney General of the United States by a 70-30 […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Finance committees, and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) are urging the Securities […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today announced estimated top-line funding Maryland will receive following the Senate’s passage of the American Rescue Plan. This […]
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WASHINGTON. – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) Rob Portman (R-Ohio) introduced a bipartisan resolution expressing support for U.S. leadership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) while also calling for […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $50,000 in federal funding for Archway Station, Inc.’s Allegany Oxford House, which will […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), and eight of their SFRC colleagues introduced a bipartisan resolution in observance of the 10th anniversary of the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) have announced bipartisan legislation to extend the highly popular Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) that provides local governments authority over […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and lead author of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, issued the following […]
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WASHINGTON — On International Women’s Day, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced that they will introduce the Girls Leadership, Engagement, and Advocacy in Development (LEAD) Act, […]
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“Emergencies like this are when government can best bring together the resources that will make a positive difference in people’s lives.” WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and today […]
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With seasonal start date slated for April 1, Senators urge DHS to make maximum number of H-2B visas available WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) and Senators […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) has been named Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Management, International […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) Thursday introduced the End Racial and Religious Profiling Act of 2021 (ERRPA) that would ban discriminatory profiling by federal, state and local law […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer and Anthony G. Brown (all D-Md.) today announced $1.2 million in federal funding to strengthen Prince […]
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WASHINGTON– Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) introduced legislation with twenty-four of their Senate colleagues to close a current loophole that allows gun sales to proceed […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $424,875 in federal funding for the University […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) alongside Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Ranking Member and Chairman of the SFRC Subcommittee on […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (D-Md.) today announced $3,565,694 in federal funding to support Tri-State Community Health Center in Hancock, Md. “The […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) joined Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and a number of their Senate colleagues in reintroducing the Background Check Expansion Act […]
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WASHINGTON—Following Tuesday’s announcement that the United States will impose sanctions on seven senior Russian figures implicated in Alexei Navalny’s poisoning and imprisonment, Helsinki Commission leaders Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Roger Wicker […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today was named as Chair of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure for the 117th Congress. Senator Cardin […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and John Boozman (R-Ark.) today introduced updated legislation that would help identify the scope of one of the most significant secondary impacts of […]
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WASHINGTON – The COVID-19 pandemic and economic disruption continues to wreak havoc on families, businesses, health systems, and our economy. Americans are still reeling from the Trump Administration’s botched COVID-19 […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, today helped commemorate the 100th anniversary of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association […]
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WASHINGTON— U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Chris Van Hollen […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $3,344,121 in federal funding to tackle racial and ethnic […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and lead author of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, issued the following […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) today introduced a measure to permanently extend the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC), which has created jobs and driven […]
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On anniversary of Deamonte Driver’s death, senators introduce measure to eliminate annual and lifetime limits on dental coverage under Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Bill also requires and strengthens wrap-around […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) continue to drive a concerted effort in Congress to increase COVID-19 vaccine confidence and improve vaccination rates in underserved […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) have reintroduced The Dental Loan Repayment Assistance Act (S. 449) to help increase the number of dental and dental […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today introduced the Democracy Restoration Act (DRA/S. 481) that would end the permanent denial of voting rights for individuals with criminal convictions nationwide. The bill aims […]
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WASHINGTON —Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today issued the following statement after the committee advanced the nomination of Isabella Casillas Guzman to be U.S. […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced more than $4.5 million in federal funding for Head Start and Early […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny Hoyer and Anthony Brown (all D-Md.) applauded the announcement of a new Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) mass vaccination […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today announced $230,000 for Salisbury Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc. The funding will help develop and preserve affordable housing, revitalize […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today issued a statement lauding the Biden-Harris Administration for making changes to the Paycheck Protection Program […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) announced $754,500 to help develop and preserve affordable housing, revitalize […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) along with Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-Va.) today announced a bill to renew the federal […]
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BALTIMORE – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.) lauded progress at Fort Detrick’s U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) and U.S. Army Medical Research […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, today celebrated the inclusion of the Chesapeake Country All-American Road, a more […]
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WASHINGTON – Members of the Maryland congressional delegation, including U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John P. Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), author of the Newspaper Revitalization Act of 2009, issued the following statement upon news that the nonprofit Sunlight for All Institute would acquire […]
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BALTIMORE – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), former Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates, issued the following statement on the appointment of Rachel Jones, his Southern Maryland Field Representative, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D–Md.) issued the following statement following the conclusion of the trial for Donald Trump, who was impeached while in office by the House of […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, the Senate unanimously passed bipartisan legislation to award U.S. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman the Congressional Gold Medal. The legislation was introduced in January by U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Chris […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Jamie Raskin (all D-Md.) today announced $2 million in federal funding from the Centers for Disease Control and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee overseeing Human Rights and Democracy; Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), lead Democrat on the East Asia […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.-3) and 45 of their colleagues, including Senate Environment and Public Works Chair Tom Carper (D-Del.) and House Transportation […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced more than $7.7 million in federal funding to expand services […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), along with fellow Chesapeake Bay State senators Tom Carper (D-Del.) – Environment and Public Works Committee Chair – Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Mark Warner […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) was joined by Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Dick […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced a Senate resolution expressing the U.S. […]
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WASHINGTON – Following a recent request from U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.), urging then President-elect Biden to take immediate action upon assuming office to grant pending […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) today announced the reintroduction of the Safe Environment from Countries Under […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Special Representative on Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Intolerance for the Organization for Security and Cooperation […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) join with Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, in introducing […]
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In new letters to USPS district leaders responsible for Maryland operations, lawmakers cite aggravating mail delays, worsening problems with parcels and plummeting public trust “These problems have not subsided since […]
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TIMONIUM – Members of Baltimore’s Congressional delegation – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen along with and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) – today announced $4 […]
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(Washington, DC) —Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today joined Color of Change President Rashad Robinson, U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. President & CEO Ron Busby,1863 […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all […]
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WASHINGTON – As Maryland and other states continue to struggle with the roll out of COVID-19 vaccination programs, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) is praising his colleagues for unanimously supporting his […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have introduced a resolution condemning the military coup that took place […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) today reintroduced the bipartisan United States-Israel PTSD Collaborative Research Act to establish a […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), incoming Chair of the U.S. Helsinki Commission and Co-Chair, respectively, have re-introduced legislation that would elevate the federal […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and U.S. Representatives Steny Hoyer, C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) sent a letter to […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced the bipartisan Holding Russia Accountable […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.) today released the following statement on the announcement by Robert K. Hur, the U.S. Attorney for Maryland, that […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and John Boozman (R-Ark.) are leading a legislative effort to create a refundable tax credit to help blind Americans afford access technology. The […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Congressman David Trone today were joined by co-sponsors Senator Chris Van Hollen and Representatives Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kwiesi Mfume, Anthony Brown and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), incoming Chair of the U.S. Helsinki Commission and author of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, and Helsinki Commission Co-Chair Senator Roger […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (All D-Md.) announced $300,000 in federal funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) to the City […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and author of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, issued the following statement in […]
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WASHINGTON – With temperatures dropping, gas and electricity bills mounting, and COVID-19 infection rates still out of control, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) and 42 […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Finance Health Care Subcommittee, and Congresswoman Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-Calif. 44) have introduced legislation (S. 97/H.R. 502) that […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and lead author of the Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act, issued the following statement […]
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WASHINGTON – Following Alexei Navalny’s recent arrest, violent attacks on peaceful protesters across Russia, and police raids on the offices and homes of Navalny and his colleagues, Helsinki Commission leaders […]
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WASHINGTON – Members of Maryland’s congressional delegation, including U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin […]
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WASHINGTON – Affordable housing advocated and lenders are applauding new legislation from U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) that aims to revitalize housing in distressed neighborhoods and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio), both members of the Senate Finance Committee, have introduced legislation (S. 98) to revitalize housing in distressed neighborhoods in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, applauded the most recent executive orders signed by President Joe […]
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WASHINGTON – Members of Maryland’s congressional delegation are urging President Joe Biden to award the Medal of Freedom posthumously to the five men and women who were killed on June […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $999,999 in federal funding for Morgan State University to study […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Environment & Public Works and Foreign Relations committees, who led a delegation of 10 senators to the […]
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WASHINGTON — Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Ranking Member Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and U.S. Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) today introduced the Unlocking Opportunities […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Ranking Member Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) today introduced legislation to invest in underserved innovators. […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), joined a group of Democratic senators in re-introducing legislation to grant Washington, D.C. statehood. The bill would make […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and Special Representative on Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Intolerance for the Organization for Security and Cooperation […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Senate colleagues reintroduced the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. This bipartisan bill will ensure that […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, John Sarbanes, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) applauded the award […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), incoming Chair of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee and a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following remarks after […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.) today announced the inclusion of key priorities for Maryland within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Special Representative on Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Intolerance for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly, applauded President Joe Biden’s executive order […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) today […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), who proudly represents tens of thousands of federal workers in Maryland and has been a leader in the Senate defending the rights of […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.), both members of the Senate Finance and Senate Foreign Relations committees, re-introduced today the Combatting Global Corruption Act (S. […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) today introduced legislation to award Officer Eugene Goodman the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) issued the following statement in response to President Joe Biden’s Day One immigration actions that included reversing the “Muslim Ban;” terminating border wall […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) praised the first round of executive orders signed by President Joe Biden to finally create a cohesive and coordinated response to the COVID-19 […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) announced Thursday that the first bipartisan legislation they will introduce for the 117th Congress is their joint resolution to […]
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“President Joe Biden has challenged Americans to work together to make our country a more perfect union. We are always stronger when we are united, rather than divided by hate.” […]
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BALTIMORE – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Maryland’s senior senator and former Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates, released the following statement on the passing of Maryland Senate President […]
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WASHINGTON— U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women’s Issues, along with U.S. Senators Chris Murphy […]
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BALTIMORE – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) released the following statement regarding the U.S. House of Representatives bipartisan vote to impeach Donald Trump for “inciting violence against the Government of […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) announced that the […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Susan Collins (R-Maine), a Co-Chair of the Congressional Fire Services Caucus, announced that several provisions […]
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“President-Elect Joe Biden’s decision to nominate such a strong, experienced, and diverse team to lead the United States Department of Justice illustrates the importance he has assigned to restoring the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced that the City of Frederick will receive over $1.5 million from the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today sent a letter to Acting Secretary of the Department of Defense (DOD) Christopher Miller expressing concern over DOD’s plan to […]
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WASHINGTON — Following the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, Helsinki Commission leaders U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Representative Alcee L. Hastings […]
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BALTIMORE – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) released the following statement regarding President Donald Trump and the urgent need for him to leave office before January 20. “Donald Trump has […]
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WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, the president signed into law a companion bill to legislation written by U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) that authorizes the development and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and Special Representative on Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Intolerance […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, lauded the final Fiscal Year 2021 appropriations package that avoids […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) lauded key provisions in the final Fiscal Year 2021 appropriations package that improve compensation and working conditions for federal employees and enable critical maintenance […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee responsible for human rights, released the following statement on the latest aggressive actions against Rohingya […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, along with Congressmen David Trone, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Anthony Brown and Jamie Raskin (all D-Md.), applauded the inclusion of […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), welcomed the passage of their bipartisan Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2019 […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Ranking Member Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today issued a statement after Congress passed a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill that provides […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), released the following statement following the news of a massive cyber breach of U.S. government agencies and private sector entities. “President Trump has […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today introduced the End the Cycle of Violence Act, a bill to expand violence intervention services and prevention programs for survivors of violent […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $1.61 million in federal funding for Garrett County Community Action Committee, Inc. […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) and Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-Va.) today sent a letter to Alejandro Mayorkas, President-elect […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today honored International Migrants’ Day by leading six of his Senate colleagues in sending a letter […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) and Foreign Relations committees, today introduced new legislation that will help strengthen […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) have introduced S. 5051, the Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act, which would […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, has introduced legislation (S.5001) that will establish the federal government […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $70,000 in federal funding for the Tri-County Council for Western Maryland’s Economic Development District […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, this week reintroduced progressive, forward-looking legislation that would eliminate income tax liability for many Americans, […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) celebrated their former colleague Senator Barbara A. Mikulski today as the Senate unanimously voted to rename one of its meeting […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, met by videoconference Tuesday with California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who has been selected by […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and member of the Senate Finance Committee, today issued the following statement in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $2,809,748 in federal funding for Head Start programs at the Y of Central Maryland and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $999,152 in federal funding to expand student access […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin led a virtual Maryland congressional delegation meeting Thursday with Senator Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris MD, Anthony Brown, David Trone […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $125,000 in federal funding for the Upton/Druid Heights […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Andy Harris, M.D. (all Md.) today announced nearly $1.9 million in new federal funding to help strengthen local and community […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee that oversees democracy and human rights, released the following […]
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WASHINGTON – Today U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) released the following statement lauding the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). “I am pleased that the U.S. Congress has […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) lauded passage this week of the Organization of American States Legislative Engagement Act (S.1310). This legislation […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today announced an award of $1,241,526 to Crisfield, Maryland to install critical water infrastructure that will help mitigate flooding. […]
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WASHINGTON –U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John P. Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin and David Trone (all […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Ranking Senate Democrat of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) today sent a […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee and Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Transportation and Infrastructure […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05), U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Congressman Anthony G. Brown (MD-04) announced that they secured provisions in the […]
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WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) called on Congress to invest $6 billion in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), John Thune (R-S.D.), and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) introduced bipartisan legislation to fund a science-driven public advocacy campaign to ensure […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today applauded the award of $150,000 for the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland […]
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved the House version of a measure Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) introduced that authorizes the development and construction of […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John P. Sarbanes and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $1,407,882 in federal funding to support […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John P. Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. […]
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“Ultimately, it became clear that the only way we could one day see a world free from HIV was if the United States led and heavily invested in the global […]
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) joined more than two dozen of their colleagues in urging Senate leaders to include in the next […]
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WASHINGTON – Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny Hoyer and Andy Harris (all Md.) today announced $143,158 in federal housing assistance for low-income residents in Maryland. Funding comes from the Department […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $654,592 in federal funding for Johns Hopkins University (JHU) […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as well as Ranking Senate Member of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, issued the following statement today in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Andy Harris, M.D. (all Md.) today applauded $1,436,701 in federal funds to support coastal infrastructure projects in Talbot County. The County will […]
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WASHINGTON – The members of the Maryland congressional delegation, including U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John P. Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, […]
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WASHINGTON – Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Andy Harris (all Md.) today applauded the announcement of a $500,000 award for the University of Maryland Center for […]
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We are a democracy and not an autocracy. We cannot allow President Trump undermine legitimate election results. BALTIMORE – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate […]
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BALTIMORE – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), as part of his ongoing commitment to eliminating race-related health disparities, has introduced legislation that would inform how Congress could address social, economic, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today pressed U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a letter with 15 of their Senate colleagues, to directly […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) joined Senator Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and 38 Senate Democrats in calling on General Services Administration (GSA) Administrator Emily Murphy […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) announced $100,000 in federal funding to help Morgan State University lead a national […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-MD) joined Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and nearly 40 of their […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin, ranking member of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.), a member of the Senate Appropriations and Banking, Housing, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement in response to the troop-level cuts announced today. “President Trump’s […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and author of the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act and the Global Magnitsky […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $100,000 in federal funding to purchase training equipment for the Allegany College […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.), along with Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), led 25 of their Senate colleagues in sending […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all […]
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BALTIMORE – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee and a senior member of the committees on Foreign Relations, Finance and Environment […]
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WASHINGTON –U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $50,000 in federal funds to repair and rehabilitate the homes of low-income residents in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressman Andy Harris, M.D. today announced $200,000 in federal funds to repair and rehabilitate the homes of low-income residents on […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, John Sarbanes, and Anthony G. Brown (all D-Md.) announced $100,000 in federal funding to help repair and […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Jamie Raskin, Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, and David Trone (all D-Md.) […]
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Senators call every hour until Inauguration critical to addressing the nation’s challenges, remind Murphy of long-established legal requirements Senate Environment and Public Works Committee holds oversight responsibility for the […]
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BALTIMORE – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), ranking member of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee and a senior member of the Senate Finance, Foreign Relations and Environment and […]
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BALTIMORE – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) issued the following statement on the ongoing election count: “Maryland delivered resounding results for the Democratic ticket last night, but even we are still […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), today applauded the signing of the Reinvigorating Lending for the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) recognized […]
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WASHINGTON – Ahead of tomorrow’s 20th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Security Resolution (UNSCR) 1325, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.), members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, today praised the enactment into law of a bipartisan […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Andy Harris, M.D. (all Md.) today announced $13,398,000 in funding to construct a new wastewater treatment plant in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) recently urged federal officials to avoid possible physical impacts to the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin and David […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin, and David Trone (all D-Md.) today […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) led Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), today in sending a letter to Acting Department of Homeland Security […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $9.4 million in federal funding for the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Jamie Raskin (all D-Md.) today announced $2,820,000 in federal funding to replace the expired sewage pumping station in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Senate colleagues John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) on Monday in introducing […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, today released the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s recent comments on […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $93,900 in federal funding to purchase new town maintenance trucks in Garrett […]
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“I am not convinced that Judge Barrett would administer impartial justice and guarantee equal protection of the law and equal justice under the law. So I must vote against her […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced the Home Health Emergency Access to Telehealth (HEAT) Act today, a bipartisan bill to provide Medicare reimbursement for audio […]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released a […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joined 20 members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives today in filing an amicus brief with the Supreme Court urging the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Special Representative on Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Intolerance for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today was joined by Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in pressing the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Andy Harris, M.D., Jamie Raskin and […]
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8.2 million federal student loan borrowers currently cannot access critical relief made available by the CARES Act, including a freeze on all payments, interest, and collections In a letter, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), today joined Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Jeff Merkley […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Ranking Member Ben Cardin (D-Md.), U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and U.S. Senator Chris […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, Congressman Dutch Ruppersburger and Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski (All D-Md.) today announced $9,880,000 in federal funding to help Baltimore […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) joined a bipartisan coalition of 40 Senators in a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, urging HHS to release […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has written to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) urging the continuation of […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, led over 17 of their colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $50,000 in federal funding for the Western Maryland Resources Conservation & Development […]
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WASHINGTON- U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) today applauded the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) decision to extend the critical school nutrition programs through the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone today announced […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer and Andy Harris M.D (all Md.) today announced $280,450 in federal funding to expand educational […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $430,124 in federal funding to establish a Virtual Cancer Care and Chronic […]
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WASHINGTON – Members of the Maryland congressional delegation, including U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John P. Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Special Representative on Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Intolerance for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone today announced […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $8,310,893 in federal funding for Johns Hopkins […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin, Chris Van Hollen and Representative Steny Hoyer (all D-Md.) today applauded the recent award of $7,865,950 in federal funding for a significant expansion of the […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (Both D-Md.) today announced legislation to designate Southern Maryland as a National Heritage Area (NHA) to further commemorate, conserve […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin, David Trone (all-Md.) today […]
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“On November 4, 1995, Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated after attending a peace rally in Tel Aviv, where his last words were, “I have always believed that the majority of the […]
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“We must welcome refugees not only to fulfill our responsibilities as a world leader, but because the diversity, skills, and experience refugees add to our country make America a greater […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) alongside his colleagues Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Doug Jones (D-Ala.) issued the following statements after the Senate passed the House version (H.R. 991) of their Extension […]
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WASHINGTON- The U.S. Senate has passed a 10-year extension of the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA), an important trade and development program for U.S. employers and Caribbean Basin countries. […]
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WASHINGTON –U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on the Senate vote on the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021 that funds the […]
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate today unanimously passed H.R. 1952, the Intercountry Adoption Information Act of 2019, legislation led by Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Representative […]
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WASHINGTON– U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), the Chairman of the Aging Committee), led a bipartisan group in urging Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.) today introduced the CLINCIAL TREATMENT Act. This bipartisan legislation would ensure Medicaid programs cover routine care costs for individuals […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) and Tim Kaine and Mark Warner (both D-Va.) today applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to allow oyster and clam […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced the award of $1,675,272.73 in federal funds to 11 Washington County fire companies […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes and Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.) today announced $1,443,647 in federal funding for Johns Hopkins University […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, who represent the State of Maryland where over 128,000 federal employees work, introduced a Senate resolution celebrating federal workers and the […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ranking Member and Chairman, respectively, of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Finance Health Care Subcommittee, released the following statement in response to a series of executive orders on health […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Se