WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks (Both D-Md.) joined the Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), and more in the bicameral reintroduction of the Assault Weapons Ban of 2025, legislation to revive a nationwide ban on assault weapons two decades after the original ban expired. The bill would ban the sale, transfer, manufacture, and import of military-style assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and other high-capacity ammunition feeding devices.  “The epidemic of gun violence is tearing apart communities across

May 22, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) released the following statement:  “The largest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in American history – and Trump is calling it the ‘Big, Beautiful’ bill. Well beautiful for whom? Certainly not the millions of Americans who rely on SNAP to feed their children and on Medicaid to get their health care.  “Republicans are obsessed with the poor getting poorer and the rich getting richer. This callous bill will hurt the poorest 10% of Americans while benefiting the top 1%. This bill is a predatory scam on the American people designed to pay for billionaire tax cuts. “I

May 21, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Rev. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) issued the following statement: “We stand with Representative LaMonica McIver in the face of efforts to intimidate her and silence those who seek to hold this administration accountable.  “Under federal law, members of Congress have the legally protected authority to conduct oversight inspections of immigration detention facilities. If Representative McIver had posed such a serious threat, she wouldn’t have been invited back inside the Delaney Hall facility to finish her tour that day.  “Just today, a federal judge reprimanded Department of