Press Releases
April 16, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) questioned witnesses in the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing, “Making Medicines More Affordable: How Competition Can Lower Drug Prices,” about the President’s failed plan to lower drug costs. “Savings sound good—but it’s important for Americans to understand the truth. Multiple reports have found that […]
April 16, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – As reported today in NOTUS, Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), and Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led Banking Committee Democrats — Senators Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), Andy Kim (D-N.J.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), and […]
April 15, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Alsobrooks (D-Md.) voted for Joint Resolutions of Disapproval, S.J.Res 32 and S.J.Res. 138, to block specific foreign military sales of cases of Caterpillar bulldozers and 1,000-pound bombs to Israel. Senator Alsobrooks released the following statement after her vote: “President Trump took the United States to war with Iran without authorization of the United States Congress. This illegal war has failed to achieve any strategic benefit or make the United States or Israel any safer. “We have lost […]
April 15, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Alsobrooks (D-Md.) released the following statement after voting for Senator Duckworth’s Iran War Powers Resolution: “46 days. Over $46 billion. “The price of war is always paid on the backs of working-class Americans. This unauthorized war of choice has cost the lives of brave men and women serving in our armed forces, and it’s cost our […]
April 2, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – In case you missed it, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) authored an op-ed in The Baltimore Sun marking one year since President Trump’s Liberation Day and highlighting how Trump’s tariffs have hurt Marylanders. Read the full op-ed here or below. TRUMP OWES MARYLANDERS A REFUND By Angela Alsobrooks, U.S. senator […]
March 31, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – In case you missed it, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) sat down with POLITICO’s Carmen Paun to discuss how dangerous RFK Jr. is for our nation’s health, especially when it comes to women’s health. This Women’s History Month, Senator Alsobrooks is focused on protecting and fighting for additional funding for women’s […]
“We seek to better understand the extent to which insiders may have obtained any information regarding the Administration’s plans in Venezuela, and whether they used this information to inform their trading activity.” March 26, 2026 Text of Letter (PDF) WASHINGTON DC – As reported this morning in Semafor, U.S. Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), a Member of the Senate Banking, […]
Senators seek answers to a series of questions on the move including its cost and planning behind the decision. WASHINGTON DC – Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) wrote to Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner, pressing him on the Department’s lack of transparency around the relocation of its […]
March 25, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – As reported in Semafor, Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Jim Banks (R-Ind.), Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) introduced the Main Street Depositor Protection Act. “I am proud to have worked with Senator Hagerty to introduce our updated Main Street Depositor Protection Act with Senators Cortez Masto, Hyde-Smith, Gallego, and Banks. This bipartisan legislation would require a data driven process […]
March 25, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced the Extending WIC for New Moms Act, a bicameral bill to expand eligibility and support mothers and infants into the postpartum and breastfeeding periods through the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs. This legislation extends WIC eligibility in the postpartum period […]