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The House passed Bishop's Golden Spike 150th Anniversary Act, which elevates the Golden Spike National Historic Site to the Golden Spike National Historical Park. It also establishes the Transcontinental Railroad Network, which will include sites related to its construction and legacy. Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Maryland, praised the measure. Read more »

Congressmen Anthony Brown (D-MD)and Ted Lieu (D-CA) penned a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions urging him to withdraw his request for active duty military lawyers to head to the border and prosecute immigration cases. Read more »

Human rights activists on Sunday are entering the second day of a 24-day fast in protest of the Trump administration's cruel immigration polices at the Southern border, which have left roughly 2,000 children still separated from their parents. Read more »

The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement fiasco took a new turn as lawmakers pushed back on a decision to send military lawyers to help prosecute misdemeanor immigration cases. Two House Democrats who served as judge advocate generals are urging Attorney General Jeff Sessions to withdraw his request for JAGs at the U.S.-Mexico border, and three senators—including one armed services Repub... Read more »

Reps. Anthony Brown, D-Md., Filemon Vela, D-Texas, and Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, released a joint statement announcing they will be visiting the U.S.-Mexico border near McAllen on Saturday to see the Ursula Border Patrol station and processing center. Read more »

Congressmen Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Anthony Brown (D-MD), both former Judge Advocate Generals (JAGs), sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions urging him to withdraw his request for active duty JAGs to go to the border and prosecute immigration cases. Read more »

Congressman Anthony Brown (MD-04) is joining Congressmen Filemon Vela (TX-24) and Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) on Saturday, June 23, at the U.S.-Mexico border near McAllen and Brownsville, Texas to see the Ursula Border Patrol station and processing center where families were being separated, as well as the Port Isabel ICE detention center where parents are currently being held. Read more »

I don't support Speaker (Paul) Ryan's proposal because what he's really doing is putting forward an authorization for a $25 billion wall and closing access and protections to our Dreamers," Rep. Anthony Brown (D-MD) told CBN News. Brown supports border security but wants to see it accomplished through technology and additional personnel – not a wall. Read more »

Congressman Anthony G. Brown (MD-04) released the following statement at the close of President Trump's summit with North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un Read more »

Senior Pentagon officials are refusing to formally acknowledge LGBTQ Pride Month celebrations for the first time since 2012, the year after the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy was repealed. Each year, at the start of June, an official Pentagon memo would be distributed effectively endorsing its observance and encouraging personnel to hold local events, as it does with other holidays and heritage mont... Read more »