WASHINGTON, May 7 -- Rep. Sarah Elfreth, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Elfreth Pushes Back on Cuts to PBS "I will be fighting for viewers like you" WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth (MD-03) paid tribute to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) on the House floor and pushed back on the Trump Administration's Executive Order to cut funding to public media. "Mr. Speaker, you would be hard pressed to find a person in America whose childhood wasn't prof  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, ranking member of the of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Ranking Member Raskin's Opening Statement at Subcommittee Hearing on Overcriminalization Washington, D.C. (May 7, 2025)--Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered opening remarks at the Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance hearing on the overcriminalization of federal statutory and r  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, ranking member of the of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Ranking Member Raskin's Opening Statement at Subcommittee Hearing on Threats to AI Innovation Washington, D.C. (May 7, 2025)--Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered opening remarks at the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet hearing on protecting Ame  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- Rep. Andy Harris, R-Maryland, issued the following floor remarks on May 6, 2025 (In this document, the reference to Mr. Speaker refers to the presiding officer of the House at the time of the speech): * * * Mr. Speaker, a lot of times on this floor and in the press you hear about how the Republicans somehow are cutting Medicaid or slashing Medicaid, but the facts are that in the Republican budget resolution, we increase Medicaid expenditures by at least 25 percent over the  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- Rep. April McClain-Delaney, D-Maryland, issued the following floor remarks on May 6, 2025 (In this document, the reference to Mr. Speaker refers to the presiding officer of the House at the time of the speech): * * * Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues to support my bipartisan, bicameral legislation, H.R. 3159, the Improving SCRA Benefit Utilization Act. The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act includes a specific benefit that caps interest rates on preservice debt  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, ranking member of the of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Trump's Funding Cuts, Attacks on Federal Workers Are Exacerbating Safety and Security Challenges in the Bureau of Prisons Washington, D.C. (May 7, 2025)--Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Oversight, and Rep. Lucy McBath, Ranking Member of the Subcommitt  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Van Hollen, Moran, Moore, Trahan Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Boost Employee Ownership of Businesses Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and U.S. Representatives Blake Moore (R-Utah) and Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to make it easier for private companies to transfer ownership of a business to their employees. Currently, over  more