Skip to main content

Latest News

Image
Capitol Dome
April 24, 2026

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Kweisi Mfume, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks, and U.S. Representatives Sarah Elfreth, and Johnny Olszewski (all D-MD) announced $39,662,903 in federal funding for the Maryland Economic Development Corporation (MEDCO) to expand freight handling capacity at the Tradepoint Atlantic terminal within the Port of Baltimore. The investment supports the development of the new Sparrows Point Container Terminal at Tradepoint Atlantic.

Image
Capitol Dome
April 24, 2026

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Kweisi Mfume and U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks were joined by Representatives Steny Hoyer, Jamie Raskin, Glenn Ivey, Sarah Elfreth, April McClain Delaney, and Johnny Olszewski (all D-MD) in pressing United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden and United States Forest Service (USFS) Chief Tom Schultz on the justification for and expected impact of the Administration’s proposed closure of the USFS Baltimore Urban Field Station.

Image
Capitol Dome
April 23, 2026

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-07) and Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ-04) spoke at a press conference alongside human trafficking prevention advocates to urge Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to bring their Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act up for a vote on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Image
Capitol Dome
April 9, 2026

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) and Congressman Paul D.

Image
Capitol Dome
April 7, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) issued the following statement regarding President Trump's dangerous and escalatory rhetoric towards Iran posted on Truth Social today: 

Image
Capitol Dome
March 25, 2026

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Kweisi Mfume, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks, and U.S. Representatives Steny Hoyer, Jamie Raskin, Glenn Ivey, Sarah Elfreth, April McClain Delaney, and Johnny Olszewski (All D-MD) issued the following statement in advance of tomorrow's two-year anniversary of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge: 

Image
Capitol Dome
March 17, 2026

WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, Congressman Kweisi Mfume (MD-07), along with Representative Gary Palmer (AL-06), introduced H.R.

Image
Capitol Dome
March 12, 2026

WASHINGTON, DC – Last week, Congressman Kweisi Mfume and fellow members of Maryland’s Congressional Delegation met with leaders from the Maryland Public Service Commission, the Maryland Energy Administration, the Office of People’s Counsel for the State of Maryland, and PJM Interconnection to discuss efforts to lower Marylanders’ electricity costs and strengthen the reliability of the regional electric grid.

Image
Capitol Dome
March 12, 2026

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, four days after the 115th anniversary of the birth of noted civil rights activist Clarence Mitchell Jr., Congressman Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) announced the introduction of the Clarence Mitchell Jr. Statue Act in the United States House of Representatives. This legislation will direct the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress to obtain a statue of Clarence Mitchell, Jr., and to place that statue in a permanent public location in the U.S. Capitol Building.

Image
Capitol Dome
March 6, 2026

WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, Congressman Kweisi Mfume, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks and U.S. Representatives April McClain Delaney, Steny Hoyer, Jamie Raskin, Glenn Ivey, Sarah Elfreth,, and Johnny Olszewski (all D-MD) pushed back on the Trump Administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) plans to convert a warehouse located in Washington County into a 1,500-person immigration detention facility.