WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced more than $796,000 in American Rescue Plan funding to expand mental and behavioral health training across the state.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $36,358,851 in American Rescue Plan funding to support our state's pandemic response.
WASHINGTON, DC, May 20, 2021 – U.S. Representative Kweisi Mfume today issued the following statement regarding the ceasefire announced in the Middle East.
"Today I join with concerned Marylanders and other members of the House and Senate in embracing the cease fire now underway in Gaza and Israel, in an effort to bring about an end to the killing of innocent children and civilians. However silence is not an option.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced nearly $55.4 million in federal funding from the American Rescue Plan to expand access to mental health services and substance use disorder treatment programs across the state.
WASHINGTON—U.S. Representative Kweisi Mfume today issued the following statement concerning the ongoing violence in the Middle East.
"The lethal violence in Israel, Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories has killed and wounded innocent people, including children. Hamas must stop its indiscriminate rocket attacks. The United States and its allies must work with both parties to end the immediate violence if there is to be sustained peace in the region and a two-state solution."
WASHINGTON --Today Congressman Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) and other members of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform Committee held a hearing on "The Capitol Insurrection: Unexplained Delays and Unanswered Questions" where three witnesses provided testimony: Chief of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, Robert Contee; and two Cabinet heads from the Trump Administration – former acting secretary of defense Christopher Miller and former acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen.
WASHINGTON – Members of the Maryland congressional delegation, including U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Representatives Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone, today released the following statement following a virtual joint meeting with Maryland Secretary of Transportation Gregory Slater. Secretary Slater and other staff provided an update on state-level priorities as defined by Governor Larry Hogan.
WASHINGTON – Today, Maryland's Congressional delegation, including U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen as well as Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-MD), announced more than $543.8 million in American Rescue Plan funding for colleges, universities and students throughout Maryland.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced more than $32.6 million in federal funding for the Association of Public Health Laboratories, based in Silver Spring, Maryland, to expand domestic and global health research and preparedness efforts.