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Behind Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.), the lawmakers have attached a handful of proposals some old, some new to their years-old "Make it in America" package, which is designed to create jobs and promote exports by strengthening trade enforcement, hiking infrastructure spending and eliminating tax benefits for companies that move jobs overseas.

Throughout our history, the most fundamental safeguard of liberty, equality and opportunity has always been the right to vote. Whenever that right was denied, Americans banded together to demand full inclusion in our democracy, from the rousing addresses of Marylands own Frederick Douglass to the marches for womens suffrage, culminating with the Freedom Rides of the 1960s. Today, with a pivotal election just six months away, the right to vote is once again under threat from Republican-controlled state legislatures seeking to restrict access to the ballot.

A self-described salesman, U.S. Rep. Steny H. Hoyer enlisted dozens of Charles County business leaders and military advocates Monday in his effort to promote Naval Support Facility Indian Head in preparation for any future rounds of base realignment and closure.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced earlier this month that Charlotte Hall Veterans Home will receive a federal grant totaling $3,765,184 for assistance toward the cost of expanding the facilitys emergency power capacity.

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md., 5th) spent Monday morning at the Calvert Career and Technology Academy, or CTA, on Monday morning where he met students and staff.

This is a very unique facility. It is a national treasure that is important for us to maintain. These are world class facilities, said U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta during a visit Friday to Patuxent River Naval Air Station.

With a decline in Americas number of skilled workers and manufacturers, public school systems throughout the nation are trying to prepare students to do the necessary hands-on work.

Maryland Democrats continued to ramp up pressure on House GOP leaders Wednesday over a stalled effort to extend a payroll tax cut that benefits as many as 2.6 million wage earners in the state.