Press Releases
May 14, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) released the following statement after voting to move the CLARITY Act out of the Banking Committee and onto the Senate Floor. The vote was reported favorably by a vote of 15-9. “The digital revolution is upon us, and it has presented a clear opportunity to support […]
May 13, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) and Senator Jim Justice (R-W.Va.) introduced the HBCU Arts Act, legislation to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for additional uses of funds – including arts education – for grants to strengthen Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). So many HBCU alumni have gone on to become leaders in the arts field – from Roberta Flack, to Spike Lee, to Amy Sherald. Maryland is home to four […]
May 13, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Alsobrooks (D-Md.) released the following statement after voting for Senator Merkley’s Iran War Powers Resolution: “After spending a week in our home states, I thought maybe Republicans would come back to Washington and vote on behalf of their constituents. I was sure Republicans would have heard in their states about spiking gas prices, increasing grocery prices, […]
May 12, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) issued the following statement after news that Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary resigned after pressure from the White House: “Marty Makary is just one of the many unqualified conspiracy theorists and sycophants working for RFK Jr. The more of his cronies that are […]
April 30, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Alsobrooks (D-Md.) released the following statement after President Trump announced that he was pulling his nomination of Casey Means to be Surgeon General. “I said it at her nomination hearing, and I will say it again now: Casey Means did not have the qualifications to be our nation’s Surgeon General. Dr. Means profited […]
April 30, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) and Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.-15) introduced the Financial Access Protection Act, which would prohibit banks from “collecting, maintaining, and disclosing” information tied to Americans’ citizenship and immigration status. In February, at a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, Senator Alsobrooks asked a group of financial regulators to raise their hands if they believed they were responsible for enforcing immigration […]
April 29, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) issued the following statement after the Supreme Court significantly narrowed a key provision of the Voting Rights Act in a 6-3 ruling Wednesday. “John Lewis was beaten with clubs wrapped in barbed wire on the Edmund Pettus Bridge fighting for voting rights. “Today’s SCOTUS decision takes […]
April 29, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Andy Kim (D-N.J.), and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) called on Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair nominee Kevin Warsh to clarify discrepancies between his testimony before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs […]
April 28, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) is a cosponsor of Senator Tim Kaine’s S.J. Res. 124, to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against the Republic of Cuba that have not been authorized by Congress. Senator Alsobrooks voted “No” tonight against the Republican point of order that blocked […]
April 23, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) led the Maryland Congressional Delegation in advocating for the Army to select Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) in Maryland as the Army installation to permanently host the newly-established Army Data Operations Command (ADOC). In February, Senator Alsobrooks led Maryland’s Congressional Delegation – Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Representatives Steny Hoyer (D-Md.-05), Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.-07), Andy Harris (R-Md.-01), Jamie Raskin (D-Md.-08), Glenn Ivey (D-Md.-04), Sarah Elfreth (D-Md.-03), April McClain Delaney (D-Md.-06), and Johnny Olszewski, Jr. (D-Md.-02) – in […]