Press Releases
Senator Alsobrooks: “They’re Attacking People Who Receive Social Security Benefits, Like My Two Aging Parents”
“This Administration doesn’t care anything about middle class and hardworking people. They care about billionaires.” WASHINGTON, D.C. – This morning, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), delivered opening remarks at the Black Women’s Roundtable Press Conference. “They’re attacking civil servants and guess what? By extension, they’re attacking the people they serve. The people who receive Social Security benefits, like my two aging parents, who have worked their whole lives, like so many of our family members and so many of us who work their whole lives to invest in Social Security so that they could access it when they needed it. My mother who worked for
Alsobrooks, Van Hollen, Chesapeake Bay State Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation to Help Farmers Cut Costs, Enhance Bay Health
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), led U.S. Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), John Fetterman (D-Pa.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), and Mark Warner (D-Va.), in announcing the introduction of the Chesapeake Bay Conservation Acceleration Act. This legislation would incentivize agricultural conservation practices by providing federal resources to help cut costs for the region’s farmers while improving the health of the Chesapeake Bay. As approximately one-third of the Chesapeake Bay’s 64,000-square-mile watershed is agricultural land, enabling more farmers to implement conservation and environmental resilience measures will help reduce nutrient runoff into the Bay and its tributaries – a significant cause of harm to the health
Alsobrooks Intros First Bill: Tariff Transparency Act
President Trump: These tariffs will only cause a ‘little bit of disturbance.’Alsobrooks: Prove it. Washington, D.C. – Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) introduced her first bill, the Tariff Transparency Act. This necessary legislation will require the United States International Trade Commission to conduct an investigation on the impact of these tariffs, and the threat of these tariffs, on imports from Mexico and Canada. Alsobrooks was joined in introducing the legislation by Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.),