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January 28, 2025

BALTIMORE – This week, Congressman Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) joined a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressing concerns over the Trump Administration’s recent actions that undermine the State Department’s mission, its workforce, and U.S. global leadership. Representative Gregory W.

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January 18, 2025

BALTIMORE – The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC) has announced that the Inauguration Ceremony on Monday, January 20, 2025, has been relocated indoors at the request of the President-elect. 

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January 16, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Kweisi Mfume, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, along with Reps.

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January 7, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congressman Kweisi Mfume, Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks (all D-Md.) announced $85,511,803.50 in federal funding for Baltimore City’s first phase of redevelopment of the Highway to Nowhere in West Baltimore.

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December 31, 2024

BALTIMORE – Today, Congressman Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) announced the winner of this year’s Congressional App Challenge for Maryland’s 7th Congressional District.

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December 23, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, the United States Senate passed legislation (H.R. 9544) to designate a Baltimore United States Post Office (USPS) as the ‘‘United States Representative Elijah E.

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December 23, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, the U.S. Senate passed H.R. 6826, legislation designating the Visitor and Education Center at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine as the "Paul S. Sarbanes Visitor and Education Center." This bill was crafted and led in the U.S.

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December 23, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congressman Kweisi Mfume, Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and U.S. Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Jamie Raskin, David Trone, and Glenn Ivey (all D-Md.) announced $800,000 in federal funding to improve safety on railroads and at train crossings across the state.

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December 20, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) issued the following statement regarding inclusion of a provision committing the federal government to cover 100% of the rebuild costs for the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the continuing resolution that was passed by the U.S. House ahead of a December 20, 2024 deadline to avoid a government shutdown.

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December 19, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Kweisi Mfume, Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H.