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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Kweisi Mfume, Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Kweisi Mfume, Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.) today announced $67,724,611 in U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding to reimburse the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for previous COVID-19 testing costs.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmembers Kweisi Mfume, John Sarbanes, Anthony G. Brown, and David Trone (all D-Md.) announced $7,586,334 in federal funding to train new community health workers in Maryland.
By Eugene Scott
Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.), a former president and chief executive of the NAACP, said Sunday that Tuberville’s hateful comments could spur violence against Black people.
“His comments are the most vicious, vile, repugnant, parochial, racist thing I’ve heard in a long, long time,” Mfume said on MSNBC. “People take that — the sick ones — and they figure that they have to do something to extend the senator’s philosophy.
By Mike Freeman
"His comments are about the most vicious, vile, repugnant, parochial, racist things that I've heard in a long, long time," Rep. Kweisi Mfume, who is also the former head of the NAACP, told MSNBC. "This is how violence gets started against Black people, as in the case in Buffalo."
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Kweisi Mfume, Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Kweisi Mfume, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and David Trone (all D-Md.) announced $1,029,802 in federal funding to strengthen Maryland students’ math and science skills. The funds come from the U.S.