A group of House Democrats want vaccines to be allocated directly to federal employees in the National Capital Region. They're asking for the Office of Personnel Management and the Centers for Disease Control to make the inoculation of federal employees a federal process. D.C., Maryland and Virginia are home to a large concentration of federal workers, many of whom are essential workers, the group... Read more »
The League of Conservation Voters released its annual congressional scorecard Thursday, and the Maryland delegation lined up about as expected: Six House Democrats — Reps. Steny H. Hoyer, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie B. Raskin, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, John P. Sarbanes and David J. Trone — received perfect 100% scores. Rep. Anthony G. Brown (D) got 95% on the scorecard, and the state’s two senators, Benja... Read more »
The White House on Wednesday indicated that President Biden would support studying reparations for slavery, the same day that U.S. House Democrats held a hearing on legislation that would set up a reparations commission. But White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki stopped short of saying Biden would sign the bill under consideration by the House Judiciary Committee. A subcommittee led by U.S. Rep. S... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen and U.S. Representative Anthony Brown (both D-Md.) led a bicameral group of lawmakers in a letter urging President Joe Biden and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to designate Cameroon for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) or Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) due to ongoing armed conflicts and increasingly severe violence ... Read more »
Maryland military installations are waiting for details on the Department of Defense stand-down order. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin authorized every commander and supervisor in the Department of Defense to take one day from normal operations before April 6 in order to lead discussion on extremism in the military, according to the order “This stand-down is just the first initiative of what... Read more »
The commission to rename military bases honoring Confederate leaders will include three retired generals, a retired admiral, a former drill sergeant, a civilian defense policy expert, a congressman and the secretary of the Smithsonian, Pentagon and congressional leaders announced Friday. The commission is expected to begin work next month to build a plan to rename 10 Army installations carrying th... Read more »
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends that reporters be eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Phase 1C of distribution but Maryland has not yet begun to prioritize members of that profession for vaccination. “While our highest priority right now is vaccinating seniors and the severely immunocompromised, we have heard from a number of the members of the media interested in getting ... Read more »
Politicians from across the DMV spoke their minds following former President Donald Trump's acquittal by the Senate of inciting the attack on the U.S. Capitol. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D - MD) released a statement sharing his disappointment with the results on Saturday: "Today, 43 Republican senators chose to ignore the facts, the truth, their responsibility under our Constitution, and ... Read more »
Donald Trump was just acquitted for a second time. Now the real question is, can Democrats finally quit the former president? Democrats have spent five years hammering Trump for what they see as the most destructive and corrupt administration in U.S. history. But as the party juggles a daunting legislative to-do list with full control of Washington for the first time in a decade, there’s a growin... Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Anthony G. Brown (MD-04), a 30-year Army veteran and senior Black member on the House Armed Services Committee, released the following statement praising Secretary Lloyd Austin and Congressional leaders’ announced appointments to the commission tasked with renaming of U.S. military installations that recognize Confederate military officers: “Men who fought to preserv... Read more »
