BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 10 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: * * * AG Sunday Joins Coalition in Proposal to End Google's Search Engine Monopoly HARRISBURG -- Attorney General Dave Sunday has joined a bipartisan coalition of 38 state Attorneys General and the U.S. Justice Department in proposing a final package of resolutions to end Google's illegal monopoly over internet search engines and restore competition to the benefit of consumers nation  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: * * * Congressman Cohen and Senator Van Hollen Reintroduce the NEWBORN Act Measure to address high - and rising - infant mortality rate WASHINGTON -- - Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland today reintroduced the Nationally Enhancing the Wellbeing of Babies through Outreach and Research Now (NEWBORN) Act to help address America's unacceptably high infant mortality rat  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Rep. April McClain Delaney, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on March 11, 2025: * * * Congresswoman April McClain Delaney Releases Statement on House Republicans' Cuts to NIH, Veterans Healthcare and Community Project Funding WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congresswoman April McClain Delaney (MD-06), released the following statement after voting 'no' on the House Republicans' Continuing Resolution (CR): "The House Republicans' CR cuts funding for critical fede  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for March 11, 2025 AIR FORCE Saudi Naval Support Co., Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (FA4911-25-D-0005); AQ Global for General Trading and Contracting Co., Safat, Kuwait (FA4911-25-D-0006); Prime Veritas General Trading and Contracting Co., Doha, Qatar (FA4911-25-D-0007); Prime One Group General Trading and Contracting Co., Farwaniya, Kuwait (FA4911-25-D-0008); Astrea Technical Services LLC, D  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released the following testimony by Gary Johnson, vice president of Granite Construction Inc., on behalf of the Transportation Construction Coalition, from a Feb. 26, 2025, hearing entitled "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Implementation and Case Studies": * * * Chairman Capito, Ranking Member Whitehouse and members of the committee, thank you for convening today's hearing to examine the Infrastructure Investment   more

WASHINGTON, March 10 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: * * * Hagerty Leads Colleagues in Reintroducing Updated Legislation on Stablecoins Senate Banking Committee to vote on GENIUS Act on Thursday WASHINGTON --United States Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, Tim Scott (R-SC), Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) today introduced an upda  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Rep. Andy Harris, R-Maryland, issued the following news release on March 11, 2025: * * * ICYMI: Congressman Harris Supports Continuing Resolution at House Republican Leadership Press Conference Washington, D.C. - Today, Congressman Andy Harris, M.D., delivered remarks at the House Republican Leadership Press Conference urging support of the continuing resolution and its passage on the House Floor. Remarks From Congressman Harris: "The first question I always get ask  more

PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland, March 10 -- The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command issued the following news release: * * * Marine Corps MQ-9 Reapers enhanced with... The Navy's MQ-9 Reaper test squadron at Pax River received the first SkyTower II (STII) pod in preparation for the system's initial operational capability (IOC) next year. Air Test and Evaluation (UX) 24 loaded the new pod onto the aircraft Feb. 25, conducting initial power on checks, the first step into integrating the new capability i  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 12 -- The Maryland Department of Health issued the following news release on March 11, 2025: * * * Maryland Department of Health announces new funding opportunities to address gun violence Baltimore, MD - The Maryland Department of Health today announced two requests for applications (RFA) to address the impact of gun violence by engaging with impacted communities and increasing gun safety and storage education across the state. The RFAs are the first grant opportun  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Rep. Joseph Morelle, D-New York, ranking member of the House Administration Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Ranking Member Morelle Issued Statement on Capitol Police Chief Manger's Retirement WASHINGTON - Rep. Joe Morelle (NY-25), the top Democrat on the Committee on House Administration, issued this statement following United States Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger's retirement announcement: "Chief Manger's decision to come out of retirement   more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- The Senate Finance Committee issued the following information for a nomination hearing at 2 p.m. on March 13, 2025, at 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building: Nomination of: * The Honorable Michael Faulkender, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury * * * Original text here: https://www.finance.senate.gov/hearings/open-executive-session-consider-favorably-reporting-the-nomination-of-the-honorable-michael-faulkender-of-maryland-to-be-deputy-secretary-of-the-tre  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, issued the following news release: * * * Sens. Scott, Cassidy, Rep. Aderholt, GOP Colleagues File Amicus Brief Defending Parents' Religious Freedoms, Protecting Children from Forced Indoctrination in Schools WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.), member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HEL  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * Team Preps to Study Dark Energy via Exploding Stars With NASA's Roman This video sparkles with synthetic supernovae from the OpenUniverse project, which simulates observations from NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. More than a million exploding stars flare into visibility and then slowly fade away. The true brightness of each transient event has been magnified by a factor of 10,000 for visibility, and no ba  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, issued the following news release: * * * Tuberville Fights for Parents' Religious Freedoms, Protecting Children from Woke Indoctrination in Schools WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), U.S. Representative Robert B. Aderholt (R-AL-04) and 63 other Republican colleagues in writing an amicus brief to the U.S Supreme Court in Mahmoud v. Taylor. The brief supports parents' constitutional  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Van Hollen Joins Warren, Warnock, Cleaver in Re-Introducing Comprehensive Bill to Lower Housing Costs and Address Housing Crisis Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Miss.), Ranking Member of the Financial S  more

WASHINGTON, March 10 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Van Hollen Presses Lutnick for Answers on Commerce, NOAA Illegal Firings & Possible Lease Terminations U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS), has sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick pressing for answers following illegal firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospher  more

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, March 11 -- The White House issued the following transcript of a press gaggle on March 9, 2025, by President Trump while en route back to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. Q: Hi, Mr. President. Q: Hello. THE PRESIDENT: How are you? Very good. Wow, it's a lot of people. That's a lot of people. Any questions? Q: Sir, on Russia. Have you made a final decision about what sanctions or tariffs you might impose on Russia and when that might  more