Press Releases
December 18, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Senator Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Senator Cramer (R-N.D.), Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Senator Curtis (R-Utah) announced legislation reauthorizing the Wildlife Crossings Program. This program at the Federal Highway Administration is a competitive grant program with the goal of reducing Wildlife Vehicle Collisions (WVCs) while improving habitat connectivity for terrestrial and aquatic […]
December 17, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Senator Alsobrooks (D-Md.) voted to pass the bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Following the vote, she released this statement: “While this NDAA bill does not have everything I would have wanted, I am proud of the investment I helped secure for Maryland. The bill authorizes $226.6 million for military construction projects in Maryland – including $86 million for the Naval Academy. I […]
December 16, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Senator Alsobrooks (D-Md.) released the following statement after attending the unveiling of a statue depicting a teen civil rights leader, Barbara Rose Johns, in the United States Capitol. This historic statue replaces a statue of Robert E. Lee. “I was honored to attend the unveiling in the United States […]
December 16, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – As reported in Politico’s Morning Tax, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), alongside Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Congressman Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.-10), introduced the Medicare Investment and Gun Violence Prevention Act, which would […]
December 11, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) voted with Democrats to extend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits for three more years. All Republicans but four voted against it. The tax credits are set to expire December 31, 2025. Without these tax credits, millions of Americans could lose health care coverage […]
December 10, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Senate passed a resolution authored by Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) and Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) designating November as National Homeless Children and Youth Awareness Month. In the 2024-2025 school year, 21,341 students in Maryland experienced homelessness. Across the country, at least 4.2 million young people experience […]
After releasing a 54-page report chronicling every day of RFK Jr.’s costly, chaotic, and corrupt reign as Secretary, Senators Alsobrooks and Wyden continue to build their case for why RFK Jr. must resign or be fired. December 8, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – RFK Jr. continues to harm the American people. On September 4, 2025, Ranking Member […]
December 5, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) introduced the 21st Century STEM for Girls and Underrepresented Minorities Act, designed to close persistent equity gaps in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and expand high-quality STEM education access for girls and students from underrepresented communities. The 21st Century STEM for Girls and Underrepresented Minorities Act is cosponsored by Senators […]
December 5, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) released the following statement after news that the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to change the nation’s immunization schedule, recommending that America’s children wait to get their hepatitis B vaccine — which prevents chronic HepB infection, a leading cause of liver cancer. […]
Senators introduce bill ahead of ACIP’s meeting tomorrow to revisit hepatitis B, other childhood shots This year, HHS Secretary replaced all 17 non-partisan experts on CDC’s top vaccine committee, attacked settled science December 3, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Lisa Blunt […]