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WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $629,718 in federal funding through the Department of Education’s highly competitive Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement (MSP) program for the University of Maryland (UMD) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
BALTIMORE – Yesterday, Congressman Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) joined MSNBC’s PoliticsNation with Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss Democrats’ signature legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act, as it passed through the 50-50 Senate, along with the President’s tremendous efforts to bring WNBA star Brittney Griner and other Americans back home from their unjust detention in Russia.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, Jamie B. Raskin and David Trone (all Md.) today announced $6,938,832 in federal funding to promote public health and support infectious disease and medical research efforts in Maryland. This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funding will be directed to the Maryland Department of Health.
BALTIMORE – Yesterday, U.S. Representative Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves announced a $22.9 million investment in Maryland to implement a new apprenticeship model that well help train local workers and connect them to employers providing good-paying jobs in the clean energy sector. This project will simultaneously help tackle the climate crisis by support the region’s growing offshore wind industry.
By David Collins
U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-District 7, are pushing legislation to help..."This particular measure does just that, it takes care of firefighters," Mfume said.
The legislation covers also volunteer firehouses. Seventy-one volunteer stations surveyed in Maryland indicated they have the same upgrade needs.
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WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, John Sarbanes, Andy Harris MD, Kweisi Mfume and David Tronemet Wednesday in the U.S. Capitol with the new president and CEO of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Hilary Harp Falk and the newly selected U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Chesapeake Bay Program Director Dr. Kandis Boyd.
By Congressman Kweisi Mfume
Congressman Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) issued the following statement on the July 16, 2022, passing of Mr. Vernon Simms, a congressional staffer for three decades who served under Congressmen Mfume and Elijah Cummings.
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By Danielle E. Gaines, Louis Peck
Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D), who succeeded Cummings in Baltimore’s District 7, also remembered the long-time Hill adviser.
“For more than two decades, Vernon served as chief of staff to my dear friend, the late Congressman Elijah Cummings. He was renowned for his work on Capitol Hill, toiling day in and day out on behalf of the constituents of Maryland’s 7th Congressional District he held so dearly and in such high regard,” Mfume said in a written statement.
Delegation points to highly educated workforce, robust infrastructure, proximity to other agencies and world-class research and medical institutions as unmatched assets for Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
New agency will lead research to end diseases like cancer as we know them