WASHINGTON, DC — In honor of America’s 250^th anniversary, this summer, the full Maryland Congressional Delegation – Congressman Kweisi Mfume, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks and U.S. Representatives Steny Hoyer, Andy Harris, Jamie Raskin, Glenn Ivey, Sarah Elfreth, April McClain Delaney, and Johnny Olszewski (all MD) – submitted a Fort McHenry Flag and a Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroad Centenary Souvenir Medal to the Semiquincentennial Congressional Time Capsule.

WASHINGTON, DC — Last week, Representatives Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-07), Wesley Bell (D-MO-01), Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10), led over 70 of their Democratic House colleagues in an effort pressing Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao to keep the name of the USS Doris Miller as is. 

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Kweisi Mfume and U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks (All D-MD) announced $10,935,000 in federal funding for the Harbor Connector, Baltimore City’s fare-free ferry service that transports riders across the harbor around waterfront neighborhoods like Locust Point, Canton, and Fells Point. The federal funding will allow the Baltimore City Department of Transportation to replace the fleet’s three diesel ferries with new hybrid vessels and support the purchase of a fourth hybrid vessel.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, on the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, Reps. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) announced that they will be co-chairing the new, bipartisan Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Protection and Prevention Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Reps. Mfume and Smith also noted that they will be working alongside Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who plans to form a complimentary Caucus in the U.S. Senate.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Rep. Kweisi Mfume spoke out against the Trump administration's attacks on Black history and on the Smithsonian Institution during a hearing on the House Oversight Committee's DOGE Subcommittee. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) issued the following statement regarding the Supreme Court of the United States' decision to allow the Trump Administration to eliminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian nationals: 

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Kweisi Mfume and the full Maryland Congressional Delegation – U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks and U.S. Representatives Steny Hoyer, Andy Harris, Jamie Raskin, Glenn Ivey, Sarah Elfreth, April McClain Delaney, and Johnny Olszewski (all MD) – released the following statement on Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins’ announcement declaring a Secretarial Disaster Designation in response to crop damage from the April 21, 2026 freeze and frost event.

WASHINGTON, DC — As the United States Postal Service (USPS) continues to face a severe financial crisis, Government Operations Subcommittee Ranking Member Kweisi Mfume (MD-07), Subcommittee Chairman Pete Sessions (TX-17), and Congressman James R.