Press Releases

Today I brought to the House Floor the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act. This important legislation will strengthen the Affordable Care Act, and ensure more Marylanders have access to quality, affordable health care.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this bill, and I thank Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and her extraordinary quest, keeping her eye on the prize to make sure that the citizens she represents have full citizenship and have our respect.

Americans across the country are speaking out and demanding action to address the crisis of systemic racism and police brutality.

We are going to pass a bill in the House of Representatives that says those who happen to live within these three quarters and a river are full citizens of America and should be accorded, therefore, the full rights of citizenship in our country.

Black lives matter, and Congress has a moral responsibility to address the crisis of racial profiling and police brutality.

I join in congratulating Elizabeth on winning the 2020 Fifth District Congressional Art Competition.

Two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, and delivered news to the last group of enslaved African Americans that they were free.

With its disproportionate impact on people of color, the coronavirus pandemic has raised awareness of long-standing health disparities among African Americans and other minority communities in Maryland.