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June 1, 2012
While we continued to see the private sector add jobs for the twenty-seventh straight month, our unemployment rate has slipped back up to 8.2 percent from the three-year record low of 8.1 percent last month. While the President and Democrats in Congress have been promoting a jobs-first agenda to provide certainty to American businesses and workers, Republicans continue to avoid addressing serious job creation in favor of ideological bills.
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Jobs & the Economy
May 31, 2012
Our nations veterans and military families deserve the best support and resources we can provide. Im pleased the University of Maryland Center on Aging has received this critical funding to help provide that support, and I thank the AmeriCorps members participating in this program for their continued service to our country as they assist fellow veterans and military families in our communities.
Issues:
National Security & Veterans
May 31, 2012
am extremely disappointed that Republicans are asking federal employees to take a freeze in pay for a third year in a row. Federal employees have already accepted two consecutive pay freezes with the knowledge that the savings would be applied toward meeting our nations fiscal challenges. At the same time Republicans were asking federal employees to contribute, they refused to ask the same of millionaires and billionaires.
May 30, 2012
I was honored to join the President today as he signed into law a bipartisan bill that I helped negotiate to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank. The bill, which passed the House with a bipartisan vote of 330-93, is an important part of House Democrats' Make It In America plan for job creation and long-termeconomic competitiveness.
Issues:
Jobs & the Economy
May 29, 2012
I'd like to thank these extraordinary teachers and principals for their hard work and dedication to our students. Maryland ishome to the best schools in the nation, and we have exemplary educators like these teachers and principals honored today to thank. I urge all Marylanders to join me in recognizing their contributions to our community, and helping to ensure they have the tools and resources they deserve.
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Education
May 29, 2012
Im proud of the important work that is done all over Maryland by librarians, artists, educators, musicians, and our numerous museums and culturalorganizations, and Im committed to ensuring these groups have the resources needed to support the great work they do.
May 29, 2012
I was pleased to see the progress that has been made since the oyster hatchery opened and hear firsthand how it is benefitting local watermen. I am committed to making the investments needed to continue this work. Restoring our oyster population is critical to the health of the Chesapeake Bay and is a boost to our local economy and job creation.
Issues:
Jobs & the Economy
May 29, 2012
I was pleased to meet with farmers from the Fifth District to hear firsthand their concerns about reauthorization of the Farm Bill and other challenges theyface. With many of the provisions of the current Farm Bill set to expire, I am hopeful we can get a new bill done so we can give our local farm community the certainty they need as they plan for next year and beyond.
May 25, 2012
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.
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Health Care & Seniors
May 18, 2012
Each year, Congress has a duty to review and authorize defense programs that keep Americans safe and our troops supplied for their missions. This has traditionally been an area where Democrats and Republicans have come together, and I have consistently supported this important bill.
Issues:
National Security & Veterans