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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is urging the state’s members of Congress to approve a proposed trade agreement between America, Mexico and Canada.

The inspector general at the U.S. Department of Justice plans to review a decision not to build a new headquarters for the FBI in the Washington suburbs.

Maryland’s legislature recently enacted a first of its kind law to regulate what state and local government entities pay for certain drugs.

This is why the media showed the sad, tragic image of a father and his infant daughter drowned trying to get to the American border.

Don't pin immigration woes on the Trump administration when so many Americans refuse to enforce immigration law.

The Republicans, who controlled Congress for several years, are to blame for not coming up with a good immigration plan

It doesn't take long to list all the legislative achievements of Rep. Andy Harris - there aren't many.

Steny Hoyer and Elijah Cummings expressed frustration at President Donald Trump’s “stonewalling," but they stopped short of calling for an impeachment inquiry.

Jonah Goldberg: The House vote to hold William Barr in contempt is dirty politics by the Democrats.

Keeping our republican form of government has never been more challenged than it is now under the corrupt and dictatorial regime of Donald Trump.

Jules Witcover: Robert Mueller's leaked letter has cast a new cloud over the president and attorney general.

Robert B. Reich: Congress should jail U.S. attorney General William Barr if he refuses to testify as ordered.

Congressional Democrats wrestling with whether to impeach Mr. Trump are pretending they need some legal smoking gun. It's all a canard. All they need are votes — first in the House, then in the Senate — and the support of Americans around the country.

The controversy surrounding Catherine Pugh and her Healthy Holly books isn't the first time books, or the written word, have gotten a politician into trouble

Elijah Cummings could turn out to be Trump’s worst nightmare based on the Baltimore resident’s powerful position in Congress, his widely-praised recent media performances and shifts in the zeitgeist that have thrust Cummings into the symbolic role of be new best hope to rein in Trump.

Democrats divided over impeaching Donald Trump should be unified by one point: Impeachment is about right and wrong, not political advantage.

Jonah Goldberg: The Mueller report doesn't meet the worst expectations of either the right or left, but it doesn't make anyone look great, either.

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.

Congressional review of Trump tax returns isn't a 'dangerous road' but denying a lawful request from the legislative branch could be.

A century ago, Justice Louis Brandeis said, “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” That is still true today.

Why does Trump want to wait to formulate his health care plan? Could it be that, as with many of his pronouncements on issues — like climate change, foreign relations, and tariffs — he has no clue or plan? 

Cal Thomas: If illegal immigration isn't an emergency, what is it?

The Trump administration is making an additional 30,000 visas available so that businesses – including Maryland crab houses – will have enough migrant laborers.

All Americans have seen so far is a four-page summary of the Mueller report - let's not jump to conclusions about President Trump from that small scrap.

Jules Witcover: Donald Trump's legal but destructive hijacking of the Oval Office has taken the Republican Party with it.

President Donald Trump proposed a record $4.7 trillion federal budget for 2020 on Monday, which increases military spending while making historic cuts to domestic programs.

The budget revealed Monday by the Trump administration has something for everyone to hate.

The 2020 race will be first and foremost a referendum on Donald Trump, says Jules Witcover.

If Special Counsel Robert Mueller or other investigators produce damning evidence about Trump, would he resign to save himself or family members from disgrace or jail? Or will he avoid being so confronted, having found another, more effective fixer than Michael Cohen?

If you wanted to understand why there is such gridlock in Congress and our national politics, all you had to do was watch the GOP members of this panel first try to get Cohen’s testimony shut down before it began on a procedural complaint. When that didn’t work, they went after Elijah Cummings.

Rod Rosenstein gets it half-right: The Justice Department should be sensitive to the rights of uncharged people but that standard can't apply to a president.

The president's decision to declare a national emergency at the southern border was an act of weakness, not strength, says Jonah Goldberg.

Since Congress is unlikely to roll back the tax cut with a Republican-controlled Senate, the only solution is to raise the federal gasoline tax to build up the Highway Trust Fund to address our country's decaying infrastructure.

In challenging President Trump's border 'emergency,' Maryland's attorney general did what voters elected him to do - look out for the interests of Maryland and the nation.

Under the leadership of then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the staffs of the main legislative expert agencies supporting Congress were sharply cut. Today they are less than one third the size of what they were before 1990. How can Congress deal with increasingly complex issues without good guidance?

More than 50 people took part in a protest Monday afternoon, against President Trump's emergency declaration to build a southern border wall, in Bel Air across the street from Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Harris' district office.

Trump's plan to declare a national emergency to build his border wall is patently illegal. Will Republicans let him get away with it?

Can Donald Trump recognize anti-Semitism? When he hears it, perhaps, just not when he participates in it.

President Trump got a taste of the Nancy bPelosi style in their recent Oval Office encounter. He was expecting the San Francisco elitist. He got the Baltimore street fighter. The speaker and her gavel will be Mr. Trump’s worst nightmare.

There’s enough room for both parties to meet in the middle on most of the issues. Whether or not they do depends on their having the political courage to do so.

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Jonah Goldberg: Why are the Republicans are getting off scot-free in the shutdown blame game?

Democratic trip to Puerto Rico was really nothing more than a "junket," says Cal Thomas.

Deadlock between White House and House of Representatives can be broken by a Senate willing to act responsibly.

In 1974, the Supreme court said “no” to Richard Nixon on release of the Watergate tapes that forced his resignation. Now it must stand firm against would-be dictator Donald Trump, whatever the political consequences, if he ever tries to push an emergency order for a border wall.

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.

Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler is publicly supporting a border wall between the United States and Mexico, and is calling on Congress to fund a wall to stop the “free flow of poison” coming into the country.

American public should be able to vote border wall up or down - and then put the federal government back to work.

After two of the most expensive U.S. House races in history, David Trone could finally exhale. The 63-year-old executive, who recently endured a cancer scare, was sworn in as Maryland’s newest congressman. “It’s good to get over the top,” said the Democrat.

The new Congress assembles Thursday in Washington. Here is a look at Maryland congressional delegation members entering the 116th U.S. Congress.