Press Releases

Alsobrooks Votes to Pass Monumental Package of Bills to Lower Cost of Housing

Package Included Four Major Initiatives Alsobrooks Championed July 29, 2025  WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) voted to pass the Banking Committee’s bipartisan housing package. The Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream to Housing Act of 2025 includes legislation that expands and preserves the housing supply, improves housing affordability and access, and cuts red tape. Senator Alsobrooks co-sponsored and successfully fought to include the following bills in the package:  The Road to Housing Act of 2025 passed unanimously out of the Committee.  This is the Committee’s first bipartisan markup of housing legislation in more than a decade – a true testament to our nation’s desperate need

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Alsobrooks, Van Hollen, Team Maryland Denied Entry at Baltimore ICE Facility

July 28, 2025  “It was abundantly clear that the people working in this facility have been instructed to hide the horror of the inhumane treatment of the people in their custody.” – Senator Alsobrooks We will not let this cover-up continue – we will continue pushing for accountability and the humane enforcement of our immigration laws.” – Senator Van Hollen WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Senator Angela Alsobrooks, Senator Chris Van Hollen, and Representatives Kweisi Mfume, Glenn Ivey,  Johnny Olszewski, Jr., and Sarah Elfreth (all D-Md.) conducted oversight on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Baltimore and on the President’s draconian and inhumane tactics he is employing – throwing

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Maryland Delegation Members’ Statement on Future of BARC

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks, Governor Wes Moore, and U.S. Representatives Steny Hoyer, Glenn Ivey, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie Raskin, Sarah Elfreth, Johnny Olszewski and April McClain Delaney (all D-Md.), released the following statement on the future of the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center:   “The Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) is the foundation of our country’s excellence in agricultural research, with its scientists working for more than 100 years on the front lines of protecting public health and supporting farmers and farming across the country. Shuttering BARC and uprooting its workforce will undercut its critical mission, endanger public safety, and unnecessarily waste taxpayer

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