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House Armed Services Committee Vice-Chair Congressman Anthony Brown (MD-4) is joining Speaker Nancy Pelosi on a bipartisan Congressional delegation to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Following the visit to the Northern Triangle countries, the delegation will travel to McAllen, Texas to see detention conditions for migrants and meet with asylum-seeking families. Read more »

Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05), Congressman Anthony Brown (MD-04), and Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks announced today that Prince George's County has received $2.2 million in grant funding through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Low or No Emission Bus Program. Read more »

On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union announced their support for Congressman Anthony G. Brown’s legislation, H.R. 3775, the Equal Justice for Immigrants Act. Read more »

A day after the Trump administration announced new plans to end asylum protections for people traveling from South and Central America through Mexico, Congressman Anthony G. Brown (MD-04), a first generation American and former Army JAG Officer, introduced the Equal Justice for Immigrants Act to extend the guaranteed right to counsel to all people in the immigration court system. Read more »

Today, Representative David Trone (D-MD), along with Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Rep. Anthony Brown (D-MD), toured the Plumbers and Gasfitters Local 5 Training Facility in Lanham, MD. Following the tour, the group hosted a roundtable with Maryland labor leaders to discuss issues pertinent to their sectors. Read more »

Congressman Anthony G. Brown (MD-04) introduced an amendment to the FY20 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to promote retired Air Force Colonel and former Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee to the rank of Brigadier General, which was unanimously agreed to and passed as part of the NDAA in the House of Representatives. Read more »

House Armed Services Committee Vice-Chairman Congressman Anthony G. Brown (MD-04) joined fellow Democrats in voting in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020 (H.R. 2500). Read more »

Army Veteran and House Armed Services Committee Vice-Chair Congressman Anthony Brown (MD-4) introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would require the Pentagon to report on individuals affected by the Trump administration’s ban on transgender Americans serving in the military, thus helping track and quantify the costs of exclusionary policy. Read more »

Last week, Congressman Anthony G. Brown (MD-04) and Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), led a letter to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Fiscal Service) expressing their opposition to ongoing efforts to relocate 79 employees in Hyattsville, MD and Washington, DC to Parkersburg, WV. The letter is signed all Democratic Members of the Maryland Delegation - Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD-5), Congressman Elijah Cummings (MD-07), Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-02), Congressman John Sarbanes (MD-03), Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08), and Congressman David Trone (MD-06). Read more »

Today, Congressman Anthony G. Brown (MD-04) introduced the Fair Pay For All Act, which would guarantee equal pay for every American - regardless of who they are or who they love - by amending the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 to expand the definition of sex to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” Read more »