WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.),Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement in commemoration of the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack on our nation. On September 11, 2001, then-Congressman Cardin represented Maryland's 3rd Congressional district. "Today, we as a nation honor and mourn the 3,000 American souls, including 68 Marylanders, who were ripped away f  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Today, Congressman Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-07) with Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-MD) announced the introduction of legislation in the United States House of Representatives and Senate to designate the United States Post Office located at 340 South Loudon Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland, as the ''United States Representative Elijah E. Cummings Post Office Building." "This post office renaming   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 11, 2024: On Wednesday, September 18, 2024 at 3:00pm ET, the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, led by Chair Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), will host a press event marking nearly four years since the wrongful imprisonment of Hong Kong media mogul and democracy advocate Jimmy Lai. The event will honor Mr. Lai's activism for democracy and free s  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) released the following statement today to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001: "Each year, on September 11th, we remember the emotions we felt on that terrible day 23 years ago: the fear, the uncertainty, the grief. We mourn the 2,977 Americans who were killed in Al Qaeda's devastating terror attack. But we also remember the   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 10, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), as well as Representatives Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.), Mik  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on Sept. 11, 2024: * * * Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after ongoing Russian attacks on civilian targets across Ukraine. "Vladimir Putin's relentless attacks on Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure is nothing short of horrifying. This week, Russian forces launched balli  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 11, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered opening remarks at the nominations hearing for Ambassador Julie Smith, to be an Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Stephanie Hallett, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Kingd  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 11, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Bill Cassidy M.D. (R-La.), issued a joint statement following the exile of Venezuelan opposition candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia. "More than a month after facing defeat at the polls,  more