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When Barbara A. Mikulski first stepped onto the Senate floor in 1987, she saw only one other female senator. They were required to wear skirts and were prohibited from using the male-only gym. But as the retiring Maryland Democrat prepares to relinquish the title of "dean of the Senate women," she leaves a political environment that is fundamentally changed — from access to the treadmills to the possibility that a woman could ascend to the presidency.

Baltimore attorney Susan L. Burke, known for her work representing military service members who say they are victims of sexual assault, said Friday that she is seriously considering a run for the U.S. Senate.

Is Boehner a better leader for the Democrats than Nancy Pelosi?

Hundreds of Baltimore water customers remained without service Wednesday — some for weeks — as city officials said they were dispatching crews around the clock to repair broken pipes and water mains.

Jeb Bush has a long way to go to win over the tea party crowd, says Jules Witcover.

Maryland lawmakers voted Wednesday to increase the maximum speed on interstate highways to 70 mph, but don't start pressing the gas pedal just yet.

Netanyahu speech to Congress must not deflect U.S. from peace efforts

Latest snowstorm to hit the East Coast reinforces, rather than disproves, man-made climate change

Executive orders are a bipartisan pastime

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Chris Van Hollen, a Montgomery County Democrat and fast-rising star in his party, told supporters Wednesday that he will run for the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski next year -- becoming the first to formally jump into a race that more than a dozen people are considering.

Justice Kennedy turns a debate about four words in the ACA into a constitutional question.

Mix of religion and partisan politics has turned U.S. relations with Israel and the rest of the Middle East into a volatile mix

Mr. Netanyahu wants the U.S. to forgo negotiations in favor of sanctions while Iran continues to build the infrastructure for nuclear weapons. The logical consequence of this chain of events would be war, because Iran would continue to develop its nuclear program unless negotiations prohibit it. Presumably, then, Mr. Netanyahu wants the next step to be a U.S.-led war in Iran

As she weighs a decision to run for U.S. Senate, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Wednesday she¿s considering whether she can serve Baltimore better in her current job or in Congress.

Israel's visiting prime minister deserved to be treated better by Obama and members of his party

Our view: the Israeli prime minister did himself and his country no favor by trying to scuttle talks over Iran's disputed nuclear program by making U.S. support for Israel a partisan issue

President Barack Obama offered his praise of Sen. Barbara Mikulski

Of course, talk of Senator Mikulski's potential successor has already begun in earnest. But there will be plenty of time to discuss what to expect from a post-Mikulski Maryland and Congress.

Republicans should win the public over in Department of Homeland Security funding decision

It's likely most of the tea party legislators opposed to the new AP U.S. history guidelines haven't read them.

Barbara A. Mikulski, a 4-foot-11 Highlandtown activist, fought a highway that threatened southeast Baltimore. She broke into politics when women on Baltimore's City Council were still called girls — and rose to become a U.S. Senator, a leader of the Appropriates Committee and the longer serving woman in Congress.

Fire companies, children and businesses benefitted from Senator's efforts

Barbara Mikulski's decision to retire from the U.S. Senate signals the end of a ground-breaking career for a one-of-a-kind Baltimorean

With the Republicans now in control of both houses of Congress, President Obama has finally invoked his weapon of last resort against being run over by them, by vetoing the Keystone XL pipeline bill.

Embarrassing debacle of Israeli prime minister's speech should be put to an end

How to fix Md.'s aging infrastructure

Things are strained between the Underwoods after their Moscow trip. We flash forward to the couple renewing their wedding vows a month later, but even then, things seem different between them.

Frank resorts to some unconventional methods to get America Works up and running, firing the head of the Department of Homeland Security, temporarily taking over that position himself

Russia's President Petrov is visiting Washington for a summit on the Israel/Palestine conflict in the Middle East.

Frank is meeting with the top Democrats in congress. He thinks that they're meeting to talk about his jobs program, America Works. In reality, they're confronting him, telling him that it's in the best interests of the party for him not to run for election in 2016.

Frank, Claire Underwood return for Netflix series

On Out There with Thomas Roberts, Kristin Beck said she thinks "we need a lot more voices just of the people" in Congress, saying professional politicians like Hoyer "lose touch" when they've been in office for decades.

GOP-controlled Congress has made the U.S. an international laughingstock

In vetoing the Keystone pipeline, President Obama put politics ahead of the nation's well-being

We need clear definitions of employer and employee to protect workers from the independent contractor label, says Robert Reich.

Some of the nation's top university officials, including the chancellor of the University System of Maryland, are calling on Congress to roll back what they see as a byzantine and ever-expanding system of federal regulations that is costing schools millions of dollars each year.

WASHINGTON -- As the Department of Homeland Security braces for the possibility of a shutdown at the end of the week, Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin introduced legislation on Tuesday that would provide retroactive pay for any workers furloughed because of a lapse in funding.

Do you blame Republicans or Democrats for Congress' failure thus far to pass a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security?

For the sake of our children and grandchildren I implore us, the United States people, to ask our elected officials to ensure that we set an example and lead with political, economic and diplomatic policies that cut off weapons, funding and support for the Islamic State. Answering violence with violence cannot lead to peace.