Press Releases
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 […]
April 23, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – In case you missed it, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) joined The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell last night to discuss her questioning of RFK Jr. and why she continues to call for RFK Jr.’s immediate resignation, or for him to be fired. WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE “Each encounter […]
April 23, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – During the Senate vote-a-rama – an all-night marathon of amendment votes on the Senate Republicans’ budget resolution to fund ICE and CPB – Senator Alsobrooks (D-Md.) forced a vote on her amendment, #5294, which would ensure that child care is finally affordable for working families. Federal guidelines suggest child care […]
April 22, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Alsobrooks (D-Md.) released the following statement after voting for Senator Baldwin’s Iran War Powers Resolution: “It has been 53 days since the start of President Trump’s unauthorized war in Iran. And still there is no strategy and no end in sight. “Americans cannot afford their gas, groceries, or medication – we certainly cannot afford a war that is costing […]
April 22, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Alsobrooks (D-Md.) questioned RFK Jr. during the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee’s “Hearing on Fiscal Year 2027 Department of Health and Human Services Budget.” Last week during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing, Rep. Terri Sewell (Ala.-07) questioned Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. about his previous comments stating, “Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, benzos, which are known […]
April 21, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) released the following statement after questioning President Trump’s nominee for Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh. “I am a ‘no’ on Kevin Warsh for Chairman of the Federal Reserve. He could not answer my very simple questions regarding the independence of the Federal Reserve amid the politically motivated investigations into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Governor Lisa […]