Press Releases
Currently, Entrepreneurs Can Only Write Off $5,000 In Costs When Starting A New Business. New Legislation Would Increase Tax Deduction To $50,000 A Recent Survey Found That Small Business Owners Spend An Average Of $40,000 To Get Their Businesses Off The Ground May 27, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – During National Small Business Month, U.S. Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) […]
May 23, 2025 BOWIE, MD — Today, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) delivered the Bowie State University Class of 2025 Commencement Address. Following her address, Senator Alsobrooks was awarded the Presidential Medal of Excellence and a Presidential Citation. WATCH THE COMMENCEMENT HERE See below for Senator Alsobrooks’ Address (as prepared): To Dr. Breaux, faculty, staff, family, and friends of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Major Richard Star Act would provide combat-injured veterans with full earned disability compensation and retirement pay May 21, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen, Angela Alsobrooks (Both D-Md.) joined Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), to reintroduce S. 1032, the Major Richard Star […]
May 20, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – Senate Republicans rejected Senator Angela Alsobrooks’ (D-Md.) Resolution of Disapproval of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Senator Alsobrooks took to the Senate Floor tonight to ask for Unanimous Consent and urge her Republican colleagues to take action against the dangerous actions of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Her resolution states that […]
May 20, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) and Senator Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) introduced the Bipartisan Access to Small Business Investor Capital Act, which would support small- and middle-market businesses by making it easier for business development companies to attract capital. “I am so proud to work with Senator McCormick on this bipartisan […]
May 20, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – In case you missed it, Axios released a story yesterday outlining how RFK and the Trump Administration’s cuts are putting current and future cancer patients at risk. Senator Alsobrooks released the following statement: “Cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the United States. But that clearly isn’t stopping RFK from slashing cancer research […]
May 19, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Senator Alsobrooks’ bipartisan Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025 (GENIUS) Act cleared a key procedural hurdle in the United States Senate. Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) is an original cosponsor of the GENIUS Act alongside Senators Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Hagerty (R-Tenn.), and Lummis (R-Wyo.). After the […]