U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressman Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) announced $5,000,000 to spur scientific and technological research at Morgan State University in Baltimore City. Over the next five years, these federal funds – provided through the National Science Foundation’s Centers for Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) program – will establish a new CREST Center for advanced magnet and semiconductor research at the University and will serve as a hub for research collaboration in the region. This funding was made possible by the lawmakers’ work to pass the CHIPS and Science Act and is another clear example of how this historic legislation is investing in our communities and keeping our nation at the forefront of science and technology.
U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and author of the Elie Wiesel Global Atrocities and Prevention Act (P.L. 115-441), and Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees, led the introduction today of a Senate resolution calling on the president “to support the creation of an international special tribunal to prosecute Russia’s unlawful aggression against Ukraine.” The resolution outlines a sampling of the unprovoked and deliberate actions taken by Russia against civilians in Ukraine.
With the U.S. Supreme Court expected to rule this summer on the constitutionality of affirmative action in college admissions, an analysis by the Maryland State Wire shows that Maryland is one of 41 states that currently allow affirmative action.
Maryland's death count did not exceed the upper threshold of death expectancy during the week ending May 13, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, on May 19 released a report titled “Impacts of Budget Cuts and Brinkmanship on Small Businesses.” The report focuses on the challenges that small businesses will face if we default on our debt and what the effects of deep budget cuts will cause. It also examines how the Default on America Act, or the Limit, Save, Grow Act would severely curtail services, resources and incentives for current and future entrepreneurs and small business owners.
PHILADELPHIA (May 26, 2023) – the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $1,791,543 going to Maryland from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to expedite the assessment and cleanup of brownfield sites in Maryland while advancing environmental justice.
This week, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) reintroduced the Safe Environment from Countries Under Repression and in Emergency (SECURE) Act, legislation to allow qualified TPS recipients to apply for legal permanent residency.
U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) introduced the SCORE for Small Business Act today to reauthorize and improve the SCORE program and invest in the in-person mentoring, online training, and local workshops that SCORE provides to small businesses. This bill was previously introduced in December 2022 in the 117th Congress.
On May 24, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) led 14 of their colleagues in a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas urging the Administration to ensure equal treatment of all U.S. citizens – regardless of ethnicity, national origin, and religion – is upheld within the Visa Waiver Program (VWP), as the Administration considers Israel’s candidacy to join the program.
U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Co-Chair of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission), a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, and Special Representative on Antisemitism, Racism and Intolerance for the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, praised the Biden-Harris administration for its first-ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism released Thursday.