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U.S. Congressional Tipoffs Involving Maryland Newsletter for Saturday April 20, 2024 ( 5 items )  

Hoyer Discusses the Urgent Need to Send Aid to Our Allies on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports
WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) joined Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC to discuss the urgent need to pass the foreign aid supplemental to bring critical aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. Below is a transcript of his remarks and a link to the video: Image Click here for a link to the video. On House Democrats Supporting the Foreign Aid Supplemental "Andrea, I think that's a pretty good  more

Reps. Raskin, Stansbury, and Omar Push for Supreme Court Accountability with New Legislation?
WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Representatives Jamie Raskin (MD-08), Melanie Stansbury (NM-01), Ilhan Omar (MN-05), and Senator Richard Blumenthal (CT) today introduced the Judicial Ethics Enforcement Act of 2024 creating an Office of the Inspector General within the judicial branch and empowering the inspector general to conduct investigations of alleged violations of the Code of Conduct for Justices of the Supreme Court of the United  more

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Cardin Urges U.S., Partners to Push for Immediate Humanitarian Assistance to Sudan
WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on April 19, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered a speech on the Senate floor marking one year since the onset of civil war in Sudan, and calling on the United States and our international partners to ramp up humanitarian assistance for war-affected Sudanese and for impacted populations in   more

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Leaders Cardin, Risch, House Foreign Affairs Committee Leaders Meeks, McCaul Request Determination of Human Rights Abuses Committed by Sudan RSF
WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on April 19, 2024: Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with U.S. Representatives Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Ranking Member and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a letter to President Biden urgently requesting a   more

Trone, Cardenas Lead Introduction of Resolution Declaring April 2024 as Second Chance Month
WASHINGTON, April 19 -- Rep. David Trone, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Today, U.S. Representatives David Trone (D-MD-6), Tony Cardenas (D-CA-29), Bruce Westerman (R-AR-4) and Don Bacon (R-NE-2) alongside U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) reintroduced the bicameral Second Chance Month Resolution. The bicameral, bipartisan effort to designate April 2024 as Second Chance Month serves as reminder of the significant legal and societal barriers for t  more