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By Sam Janesch January 30, 2025 WASHINGTON — In a series of aggressive, rapid-fire questions to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his plans to replace career scientists at the Maryland-based National Institutes for Health and reform the country’s biggest health agency at large, U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks leaned forward, took off her glasses and smiled […]
January 30, 2025 On Thursday, during confirmation hearings for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) confronted RFK Jr. on his position that “We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that’s given to Whites, because their immune system […]
by Cheyanne M. Daniels January 30, 2025 Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) on Thursday grilled Department of Health and Human Services secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his history of claiming Black Americans have a better immune system than white people. Alsobrooks, one of only two Black women serving in the Senate, questioned Kennedy on what he […]
By Larry Miller January 29, 2025 The U.S. senator has to work with leaders across the political spectrum to save federal workers. WASHINGTON — Maryland Sen. Angela Alsobrooks is voicing strong opposition to the Trump administration’s latest initiative aimed at shrinking the federal government, calling it a “witch hunt” against career civil servants. The controversy […]
By Larry Miller January 29, 2025 The U.S. senator has to work with leaders across the political spectrum to save federal workers. WASHINGTON — Maryland Sen. Angela Alsobrooks is voicing strong opposition to the Trump administration’s latest initiative aimed at shrinking the federal government, calling it a “witch hunt” against career civil servants. The controversy […]
By Candy Woodall January 16, 2025 Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) participates in the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs confirmation hearing for Scott Turner, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for housing secretary, on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) Maryland’s freshman senator was in the spotlight […]
By Candy Woodall January 16, 2025 Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) participates in the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs confirmation hearing for Scott Turner, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for housing secretary, on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) Maryland’s freshman senator was in the spotlight […]
By Erin Spencer Sairam January 14, 2025 The 119th Congress marked the first since 2016 with a decrease in women’s representation when it officially kicked off on January 3. Senator Angela Alsobrooks speaks at a press conference alongside other Senate Democrats outside the US Capitol on Priorities for the 119th Congress in Washington, DC, on […]
By Sam Janesch January 3, 2025 Vice President Kamala Harris, right, holds a ceremonial swearing-in for Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., in the Old Senate Chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) WASHINGTON — Angela Alsobrooks — with an oath to her country and a handshake from her mentor […]
Senator Alsobrooks also met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus — before heading to the Capitol.