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“I am confident in our ability as a state to take action in order to protect the health of our neighbors and vulnerable communities,” Brown said in a statement. Read more »

Prince George’s County Public Schools is more than doubling the number of grab-and-go meal sites for students during the statewide shutdown of schools because of the coronavirus, and starting Thursday students will also be able to grab learning materials. Read more »

Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Maryland, vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, told Military.com earlier this year that he'd like to see a more specific question added to climate surveys -- one that specifically references white nationalism and racism, rather than just extremism. He said he hopes the process will encourage more candid responses and give an accurate sense of what's happening unit to unit. Read more »

“This administration has failed to take adequate steps to prepare for an outbreak of this magnitude. President Trump has not delivered the adequate testing he has promised, allowing America to fall behind countries far smaller than the United States. Additionally, shortsighted staffing decisions and funding choices at the CDC and USAMRIID have hamstrung and delayed critical steps needed to ensure the safety of this country and our constituents,” Rep. Anthony Brown (D-MD) told The Daily Beast. Read more »

U.S. House Democratic leaders want to remove a bust at the Capitol of Roger Brooke Taney, the Maryland-born former U.S. Supreme Court chief justice best known for writing the Dred Scott decision holding that black Americans were not citizens. Read more »

"We cannot be afraid of this. We have to take it head-on," Brown said. "I implore you to take this on, and to ask Congress for help." Read more »

"Federal funding will be administered over the next five years in partnership with Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS)" Read more »

“We cannot be afraid of this. We have to take it head on,” Brown told Goldfein and Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett. “I implore you to take this on, and to ask Congress for help.” Read more »

The bill has already attracted at least one Republican co-sponsor, according to Panetta’s office: Rep. Richard Hudson, N.C., whose district includes Fort Bragg, home to many of the special operators now in Africa. (Reps. Jason Crow, D-Colo., and Anthony Brown, D-Md., are also original cosponsors, the office said.) Read more »

But, Maryland Democrat Anthony Brown asked during the hearing, isn’t Fort Detrick struggling with funding shortfalls? The infectious diseases center at the fort and its sister center for chemical warfare defense are largely funded by reimbursements from other government agencies, military and civilian, that contract with them to do research. Those reimbursements have been drying up, Rep. Brown said. Read more »