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Bank offers $1.3 million for Md. affordable housing projects
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta has agreed to provide $1.3 million to fund affordable housing projects in Baltimore and Cecil County, Maryland's U.S. senators announced Wednesday. "As a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I have...Tags: Rentals, Benjamin L. Cardin, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Cecil County, Harbor
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U.S. Senate Democrats to meet in Annapolis
U.S. Senate Democrats will hold their annual retreat beginning Tuesday in Annapolis, giving lawmakers a chance to strategize about gun control, immigration and the latest fiscal crisis. The meeting, which will end with a closed-door address Wednesday by...Tags: Baltimore County, U.S. House of Representatives, Parties and Movements, Barack Obama, Politics
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Filibuster reform can't wait
Two months after American voters made it clear they want effective government — and two years before the U.S. Senate's next opportunity to reform its broken rules — that "do nothing" chamber appears poised to fix its filibuster. In its present...
Tags: Benjamin L. Cardin, Lyndon B. Johnson, Republican Party, Politics, Voting
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Md. congressional leadership demands answers from VA
Calling the failures at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Baltimore "inexcusable," Maryland's congressional leadership on Monday demanded the beleaguered agency develop an immediate plan to fix the local problems in processing disability claims....
Tags: Leukemia, Benjamin L. Cardin, John Sarbanes, World War II (1939-1945), U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
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The challenging math of passing immigration reform
WASHINGTON – Senators from both parties are expressing enthusiasm for pushing a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s immigration system. But while immigration politics appears to have changed in the wake of sweeping Republican rejection...
Tags: Thomas R. Carper, Tom Harkin, Dick Durbin, Parties and Movements, Jon Tester
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Female vs. male senators
As the son of a woman, the husband of a woman and the father of daughters and granddaughters, I celebrate the record number of females who are now United States senators. However, I do see some differences in the way these and other women are treated,...
Tags: Feminism, Justice and Rights, Politics, Bella Abzug, Lisa Murkowski
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Hattie Harrison, longest-serving Md. delegate
Hattie Harrison, the matriarch of East Baltimore politics who often greeted colleagues as "Baby" and was known for her signature curled hair and Southern cooking, will be remembered at a funeral at noon Feb. 9. Mrs. Harrison died of heart disease...
Tags: Marvin Mandel, Bernard C. Young, Carl Stokes, Annapolis, Washington, DC
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Where's the Democrats' due diligence?
While the Republicans were certainly guilty of deficit spending, they at least fulfilled their due diligence during President George W. Bush's administration ("Get it done," Feb. 13). They submitted a budget in accordance with the law and the most basic...Tags: Benjamin L. Cardin, U.S. Congress, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Politics
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Harris appointed to House Appropriations
Baltimore County Republican Rep. Andy Harris was appointed to serve on the powerful House Appropriations Committee on Thursday, giving the state another voice in how federal dollars are spent. Harris, is in his second term representing the Eastern Shore...
Tags: Baltimore County, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Roscoe G Bartlett, Jo Ann Emerson
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Cardin asks NIH researchers to help fight looming cuts
Sen. Ben Cardin had a simple request of researchers at the National Institutes of Health looking for ways to defend their funding from looming budget cuts: "Put a face on this." "You're real people," the Maryland Democrat told hundreds of federal...
Tags: Benjamin L. Cardin, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Parties and Movements, National Institutes of Health, Politics
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Pass the Violence Against Women Act
The 1994 Violence Against Women Act has done tremendous good in stepping up prosecution of domestic violence, aiding victims and increasing awareness of a too-often silent threat to our society. But the act was allowed to lapse in 2011 amid partisan...Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Gays and Lesbians, Judges, Barack Obama, Violence Against Women Act
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Obama outlines ambitious agenda for second term
President Barack Obama used the first State of the Union address of his second term to try to breathe new life into his economic agenda, reviving modest measures to spur growth and trying to create fresh momentum in the all-but-stagnant talks over deficit...
Tags: Baltimore County, U.S. House of Representatives, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Benjamin L. Cardin, John Sarbanes
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