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I do not rise to necessarily defeat this bill. I'm going to vote against this bill. I am for almost all of this bill. What we are funding this bill with was unnecessary, unfair, and ought to be rejected.

I am very disappointed that the proposed UI extension will be paid for by increasing the retirement contributions made by new federal workers.

Todays announcement comes at a time when many responsible Maryland families and individuals are still facing foreclosure due to circumstances out of their control, so I am very pleased that this settlement will provide some immediate relief to them.

I am pleased to have received a nearly perfect rating from the LCV on their annual scorecard.

I was pleased to meet and hear from campus representatives from higher education institutions throughout the Fifth District on the issues that are rightfully concerning to their academic communities.

Black history has always been a complex subject here in Maryland.

Todays report showed our economy added 257,000 private sector jobs in January, lowering our unemployment rate to 8.3%.

In 1926, when Dr. Carter G. Woodson launched the weeklong celebration that later became Black History Month, so much history was yet to be written.