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A congressman representing Baltimore seeks a briefing from the NSA after a report that a tool developed by the agency was used to spread ransomware.
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Robert Mueller’s report represents “only part of the story” of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, according to Maryland lawmakers. They say Congress must now question the special counsel and subpoena his report, minus the redactions.
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Maryland's congressional delegation introduced legislation to honor Henrietta Lacks, whose cells have been used for a variety of medical research long after her death of cervical cancer in 1951.
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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is pressing congressional leaders to not only block an attempt by the Trump administration to drastically cut federal funding for the Chesapeake Bay, but increase it to $90 million.
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MIT graduates living in Maryland urged action on climate change - and found a lot of their neighbors agree with them.
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Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski will be in Washington Tuesday evening to attend the State of the Union address as delivered by President Donald Trump.
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Maryland congressional legislators shared Saturday mixed receptions to President Donald Trump’s offer to extend protections for immigrants brought into the United States illegally as children in exchange for border wall funding.
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Small businesses are hurting or worried about long-term harm of prolonged government shutdown, several business owners told Maryland's senators Thursday.
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Congress approves back pay for federal workers as Maryland unemployment insurance requests top 2,500
The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved legislation to guarantee back pay for federal employees affected by a partial government shutdown. The measure has already cleared the U.S. Senate, where it was sponsored by Maryland Democrats Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen.
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Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Wednesday that the departure of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein would threaten Robert Mueller's Russia investigation at a time when the integrity of the Justice Department "is under assault" by President Donald Trump.
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The Sun has not endorsed many black candidates for statewide office.
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Maryland women share harrowing sexual assault accounts with state Sens. Chris Van Hollen, Ben Cardin
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen took to the Senate floor on Saturday and read harrowing accounts of women who said the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had emboldened them to share their own stories.
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Maryland's U.S. senators back a new FBI probe and question Brett Kavanaugh's impartiality after 'meltdown' before committee. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen said a full accounting is needed of Christine Blasey Ford's sexual assault allegation.
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Maryland's U.S. senators call sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh "very serious" and "credible."
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Maryland’s U.S. senators asked a Senate committee to support language requiring notice if any state election vendors came under the ownership or control of a foreign national.
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Maryland's U.S. senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen on Tuesday asked Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin to investigate a Russian investor's ties to a company that manages the state's election technology.
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President Donald Trump nominated Marylander Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court Monday evening. Here’s what some Maryland leaders are saying about the choice.
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As Democrats denounce border separations, Rep. Harris criticizes Obama policy and seeks more family resources
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he will reconsider Baltimore's exclusion from grants to combat violent crime.
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U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin announced Wednesday that he opposes the nomination of CIA director Mike Pompeo to serve as President Donald Trump’s next secretary of state.
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Since the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School reinvigorated the debate around gun ownership, the stances on gun issues of Maryland’s congressional representatives have fallen along familiar party lines.
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Democratic political veteran Patrick Murray named Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller's chief of staff.
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Attorney General Brian E. Frosh is endorsing Prince George's County Executive Rushern L. Baker III in the race for the Democratic nomination to oppose Gov. Larry Hogan in 2018.
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President Donald Trump signed bipartisan legislation Thursday to create a commission that will plan the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of Maryland abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, failed Thursday to preserve a state and local tax deduction in the Republican plan to overhaul the tax code.
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The Senate gave final approval Thursday to a measure pushed by Sen. Chris Van Hollen that would speed approval of cancer drugs for children.
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Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen has introduced a bill to create a commission to honor abolitionist Frederick Douglass next year for the 200th anniversary of his birth.
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Democratic senators from Maryland and New York warned the Trump administration Thursday against returning Russian diplomatic compounds seized last year.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is scrapping the government's decade-long plan to close the FBI's deteriorating headquarters in downtown Washington and
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Health care is one of the most personal and consequential issues that Congress tackles, as it touches every single family in our county. In the heated debate
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Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen was quizzing President Donald J. Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Agriculture about cuts proposed for the Chesapeake Bay program recently when a fellow Democrat jumped into the conversation.
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Sen. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Rep. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, have introduced legislation in the Senate and the House of Representatives that would tie the president's power to launch a nuclear first strike to a prior congressional authorization. Among the co-sponsors of the bill is Maryland's Sen. Chris Van Hollen. This legislation would ensure that this president, and future presidents, cannot make the decision to initiate the use of nuclear weapons in a matter of
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Maryland Democrats chose Montgomery County businesswoman Kathleen Matthews, who had the support of party leaders, on Saturday to lead their party through the
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Four Democratic members of the state's congressional delegation told voters gathered at a town hall meeting in Baltimore on Thursday that they will continue to
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen's campaign on Tuesday denied allegations raised in a new a book about the 2016 presidential election that he urged unions to not aggressively turn out the state's African American vote out of fear it would help his Democratic primary opponent.
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Van Hollen camp pays fine over dispute with Emily's List
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Maryland's two Democratic senators said Tuesday they will oppose President Donald Trump's nominee to serve on the Supreme Court, but they took a different
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The day after the election I submitted applications to job openings in Canada, so I am no fan of the current administration. But the best battle cry is to look to the state legislature as more than an opening act. These officials are not the also-rans of our democracy, they will be (and likely have been) far more impactful on your day-to-day life than anything Steve Bannon can decree.
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Plans to relocate the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters had been postponed until Congress can secure funding, the General Services Administration announced Friday.
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Sen. Ben Cardin, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, questioned President Donald Trump's decision to break with decades of U.S.
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“I believe we are in a fight for the soul of our democracy right now,” Rep. Elijah Cummings says.
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WASHINGTON — Maryland added two Democrats to its congressional delegation and elevated a third to the Senate as a new session of Congress opened Tuesday and was immediately rocked by bipartisan backlash over proposed ethics rules.
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Barbara A. Mikulski, who will retire next month after 45 years in elected office, has become an accomplished political tactician, able to maneuver through the Senate, ascend to the chair of the powerful Appropriations Committee and build a legacy that will last long after Rep. Chris Van Hollen is sworn in next month as her successor.
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Sen.-elect Chris Van Hollen, who will succeed Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski next year, will sit on the Senate Banking, Agriculture and Budget committees,
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Northwest county voters went heavily for Clinton, but Orthodox Jews and voters in more rural areas had a different tilt.
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Sen.-elect Chris Van Hollen on Monday called on the Army Corps of Engineers to "deescalate" the standoff over a pipeline in North Dakota that has been the
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While Clinton prevailed in the local vote, Trump captured blue-collar steelworks communities in Baltimore County.
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Sen.-elect Chris Van Hollen, who will take over for Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski next year, will head the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for the
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Newly elected to Congress, Jamie Raskin resigns state Senate seat
