June 12, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) went to the Senate Floor today to speak after disturbing footage of Senator Alex Padilla being manhandled was released. Full transcript of Senator Alsobrooks’ remarks below: WATCH SENATOR ALOSBROOKS FULL REMARKS HERE  “Mr. President, I stand today and I am shaking.  “I am so angry.  “I am so enraged with the treatment that I witnessed today of my colleague, Senator Padilla. This is not the America that each of us comes here each day to stand on behalf of. There are some who are saying they don’t recognize this America. And I want to ring

Immediate ReleaseJune 12, 2025Contact: Connor Lounsbury, connor_lounsbury@alsobrooks.senate.gov WASHINGTON, DC – As reported in the Baltimore Sun, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) introduced the Medicare and Medicaid Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act. This introduction was part of an effort today by over a dozen Senate Democrats to release legislative proposals to strengthen and invest in Medicaid.  Senator Alsobrooks released the following statement on the Medicare and Medicaid Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act:  “This legislation is very personal to me and to our state. 18 years ago, a young Marylander named Deamonte Driver died of complications from a tooth infection because his family was kicked off of Medicaid and

June 9, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) released the following statement after news broke that RFK fired all 17 members of CDC’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices:  “RFK continues to push his own quackery at the expense of science and public health. Republicans stated unequivocally that RFK promised to ‘maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes.’ Clearly, he lied. These constant firings are going to have a real impact on the health of so many Americans. It’s time for RFK to resign or be fired. We are sick of it.” ###