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April 13, 2021
Press Release
WASHINGTON -- Today, Congressman David Trone (MD-06) made the below statement following the release of new data from the Maryland Opioid Operational Command Center (OOCC) showing a significant increase in the number of overdose deaths in Maryland in 2020. Overdoses throughout the state increased by 18.7%, while Western Maryland experienced a 45.9% increase in overdose deaths.
April 12, 2021
Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC – This afternoon, Congressman David Trone joined a virtual discussion with Members of the National Capital Region and representatives from National Treasury Employees Union, American Federation of Government Employees, National Federation of Federal Employees, National Active and Retired Federal Employees, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, National Association of Air Traffic Controllers, National Association of Letter Carriers, American Postal Workers Unions, and National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association. Congressman Trone was joined by Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD), Mark Warner (D-VA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Representatives Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05), Bobby Scott (VA-03), Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-02), John Sarbanes (MD-03), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Don Beyer (VA-08), Jamie Raskin (MD-08), David Trone (MD-06), Abigail Spanberger (VA-07), and Jennifer Wexton (VA-10).
April 12, 2021
Press Release
WASHINGTON – U.S. Congressman David Trone, Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Anthony G. Brown, and Jamie Raskin (all Md.) today announced more than $182 million in federal funding to bolster Maryland’s COVID-19 pandemic response and expand the capacity of laboratories and local health departments to fight infectious diseases.
April 9, 2021
Press Release
WASHINGTON – Following the release of President Biden’s fiscal year 2022 discretionary funding request, Representative David Trone (MD-06), a member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, praised the request for the significant investment in fighting the opioid and mental health epidemics, investing in important medical research funding, and reforming our criminal justice system.
Trone & National Restaurant Association Help Maryland Restaurants and Bars Apply for COVID-19 Relief
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman David Trone (MD-06) hosted Aaron Frazier, Director of Healthcare and Tax Policy at the National Restaurant Association, for a discussion on relief for struggling restaurants and bars provided in the American Rescue Plan.
April 9, 2021
Press Release
WASHINGTON - U.S. Congressman David Trone, Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, and Jamie Raskin(all D-Md.) today announced $23.6 million in federal COVID-19 economic relief funding for airports across the state.
April 8, 2021
Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, April 8th, 2021, Reps. David Trone (MD-06) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-02) introduced the Dispose Unused Medications and Prescription (DUMP) Opioids Act. This bipartisan legislation would direct the Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs to ensure that certain medical facilities of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) have physical locations for the disposal of controlled substances medications.
April 8, 2021
Press Release
WASHINGTON -- Today, Congressman David Trone (MD-06) announced that many Social Security recipients and others who have not yet received their Economic Impact Payments of up to $1,400 from the American Rescue Plan should expect to see electronic payments hit their bank accounts or be loaded onto their Direct Express Cards beginning today.
April 8, 2021
Press Release
WASHINGTON - U.S. Congressman David Trone, Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, and Jamie Raskin (all D-Md.) today applauded the award of more than $54.6 million in federal funding, from the American Rescue Plan, to bolster public health infrastructure and expand vaccination efforts, particularly COVID-19 vaccines, for underserved and hard to reach communities across the state.
April 6, 2021
Press Release
Washington, D.C. — Today, Representatives David Trone (MD-06), Nanette Diaz Barragán (CA-44), Katie Porter (CA-45), and Annie Kuster (NH-02), sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, Xavier Becerra, ahead of the expiring opioid public health emergency (PHE) on Wednesday, April 7th, 2021. In the letter, the Members urge HHS to consider renewing the PHE declared to combat the opioid epidemic and broaden its scope to address the evolving drug epidemic, while also addressing mental health.
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March 26, 2021
U.S. Rep. David Trone, D-6th, met Thursday with Washington County Public Schools officials about ongoing efforts to get students the help they need to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 26, 2021
When he signed up for the Maryland National Guard, Spc. Judah Metz did not foresee that he would help out with a mass vaccination site inside a former furniture store.
March 26, 2021
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. David Trone, D-Md., has announced that he reintroduced the bipartisan Medication Access and Training Expansion Act, along with Reps. Lori Trahan, D-Mass.; Buddy Carter, R-Ga.; Ann McLane Kuster, D-N.H.; and David P. McKinley, R-W.Va.
March 26, 2021
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. David Trone, D-Md., voted to pass two sweeping immigration bills, H.R. 6, the American Dream and Promise Act and H.R. 1603, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, aimed to make critical reforms to the American immigration system.
March 24, 2021
At the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, sales at Frederick’s Curious Iguana bookstore dropped by 65 percent.
March 24, 2021
FREDERICK, Md. (WDVM) — Congressman David Trone hosted an American Rescue Plan tour in Frederick to outline how the relief package puts vaccines in arms, money in pockets, workers back on the job, and children back in the classroom.
March 23, 2021
WASHINGTON — Over the course of a half-hour virtual event Monday afternoon, Dr. Anthony Fauci answered a range of questions about COVID-19, developments surrounding the vaccine and what to expect over the coming months as more Americans start to get their shots.
March 19, 2021
WASHINGTON — U.S. Reps. David Trone, D-Md.; Ann McLane Kuster, D-N.H.; Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa.; and Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., on Tuesday announced the creation of the Bipartisan Addiction and Mental Health Task Force, an effort to promote policies to combat the addiction and mental health crises in America.
March 16, 2021
House lawmakers are restructuring their bipartisan task forces dedicated to combating the drug epidemic and expect the chamber to consider behavioral health legislation this year, members told CQ Roll Call.
The push is spearheaded by four lawmakers in an effort to broaden the scope of legislative efforts beyond opioids to include all forms of addiction and mental health.
March 12, 2021
With the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump finished and the latest COVID-19 relief bill passed and signed, Frederick County’s federal lawmakers are turning their attention to other legislative priorities.
Infrastructure, voting rights and criminal justice reform — and how to get them through the House and especially the U.S. Senate — are a few of the items Sens. Ben Cardin (D) and Chris Van Hollen (D) and Congressmen Jamie Raskin (D) and David Trone (D) plan to focus on for the remainder of the two-year legislative session that began in January.