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WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Congressman Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), Ranking Member of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Government Operations, sent a letter to Postmaster General David Steiner and Chief Postal Inspector Gary Barksdale requesting a briefing on the suspicious mailings sent this week to congressional offices and state election offices. In the letter, Congressman Mfume commends the Postal Service employees who intercepted several of the letters before they were delivered and honors the postal workers who face the greatest risk from dangerous mail.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, and Congressman Eugene Vindman (D-VA) led a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, urging him to take immediate steps to contain settler violence and protect Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
WASHINGTON, DC – This month, Congressman Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-07) and Congressman Jonathan L.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, in response to the retirement of Smithsonian Secretary Dr. Lonnie G. Bunch III, Congressman Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-07) released the following statement:
WASHINGTON, DC — In honor of America’s 250th 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: