WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Hoyer Statement on the Retirement of Congressman Steve Cohen * WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) issued the following statement after Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced that he will not run for re-election this year: "Steve Cohen has been a colleague and a friend for nineteen years, and throughout his life of public service he has earned the respect and admiratio  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement on May 14, 2026: * * * Ranking Member Raskin's Statement on Trump's $1.7 Billion Taxpayer-Funded Slush Fund for MAGA Loyalists Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement on ABC News' reporting that President Donald Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue   more

WASHINGTON, May 16 (TNSletter) -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, ranking member of the House Education and Workforce Committee, issued a letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon challenging the decision to eliminate the Office of English Language Acquisition. * * * Here is the text of the letter: May 12, 2026 The Honorable Linda McMahon Secretary U.S. Department of Education 400 Maryland Avenue SW Washington, DC 20002 Dear Secretary McMahon, We write to express our strong opposit  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on May 14, 2026: * * * Republicans' Effort to Coerce States into Enforcing Reckless Immigration Agenda Undermines Local Police, Makes Communities Less Safe As Republicans Stage a Performative Hearing on Fairfax County, Va.--One of the Safest U.S. Counties--Democrats Demand Accountability for Trump DHS Killing Americans and Torching the Constitution * Today,  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Van Hollen Statement on Opposition to Digital Assets Legislation * Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding his vote against the CLARITY Act, cryptocurrency legislation that was considered by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: "As we've seen tim  more