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April 21, 2021
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Congressman David Trone, along with Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony G. Brown, and Jamie Raskin convened a meeting with Governor Larry Hogan and his cabinet to discuss their priorities for the upcoming fiscal year. Central to the conversation were the important federal resources from the American Rescue Plan and opportunities for major infrastructure investments through the American Jobs Plan.
April 21, 2021
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WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Representatives David Trone (MD-06), Judy Chu (D-CA), Mike Levin (D-CA), and David McKinley (R-WV) announced that they introduced H.R.2376, the Excellence in Recovery Housing Act, which would help states expand the availability of high-quality recovery housing as an option for those in and seeking recovery from a substance use disorder.
April 20, 2021
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WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman David Trone (MD-06) released a new video that follows him on his American Rescue Plan Tour through Frederick and Washington Counties in Maryland where he talked with people who would directly benefit from the widely popular legislation that President Biden signed into law last month.
April 16, 2021
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WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Representatives David Trone (D-MD) and John Joyce (R-PA) introduced the Strengthening our Health Security Through Resilient Medical Supply Chains Annual Review Act.
April 16, 2021
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WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S Representatives David Trone (D-MD) and Michael McCaul (R-TX) along with U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) announced the re-introduction of the Fighting Emerging Narcotics Through Additional Nations to Yield Lasting (FENTANYL) Results Act to increase global cooperation in the fight against synthetic drug trafficking. The group first introduced the bill last Congress, and the U.S. House passed the bill unanimously last year.
April 15, 2021
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Washington, D.C. – Today, Representatives David Trone (D-MD), Annie Kuster (D-NH), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), and Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), founders and co-chairs of the Bipartisan Addiction and Mental Health Task Force, released the following statement on new CDC data showing a steep increase in overdose deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic:
April 15, 2021
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WASHINGTON -- Today, Congressman David Trone (MD-06), member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, introduced the Fairly Assessing Service-related Exposure Residual (FASTER) Presumptions Act to reform VA’S presumptive decision-making process and help veterans exposed to toxic substances during their service access their VA disability benefits much faster.
April 14, 2021
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WASHINGTON -- Today, Congressman David Trone (MD-06) released the following statement after President Biden’s announcement that all troops would be withdrawn from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021.
April 14, 2021
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WASHINGTON -- Today, Congressman David Trone (MD-06) made the below statement following the release of the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), revealing that over 87,000 Americans died from a drug overdose between September 2019 and September 2020.
April 14, 2021
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WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee members – U.S. Representatives David Trone (D-Md.) and Barry Moore (R-Ala.) and U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) – introduced legislation to expand in-state tuition eligibility for the families of veterans who die from service-connected disabilities.
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April 22, 2021
For the past year, our nation has been focused on fighting the coronavirus. Rightly so. Today, hope in the form of a vaccine vial is reaching individuals and communities across the country. But no vaccine for the opioid epidemic is coming. It’s the crisis raging in the background, with opioid deaths surging over the past year as economic opportunities, isolation and mental health declined amid COVID-19. More than half a million people have died from opioid overdose since 1999, and more than 800,000 from drug overdoses of any kind.
April 16, 2021
Deaths from opioid intoxication in Montgomery County rose 26% — from 86 in 2019 to 108 — in 2020, according to a new report from the Maryland Opioid Operational Command Center.
April 13, 2021
Hagerstown Regional Airport will receive more than $1 million in COVID-19 relief money, according to U.S. lawmakers.
April 9, 2021
Washington DC (KM) 23.6-million in federal COVID-19 economic relief is coming to airports across Maryland. That’s according to the State’s Congressional Delegation which says the funding comes from the Coronavirus Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act passed by Congress in December, 2020.
April 9, 2021
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. David Trone, D-Md., along with fellow Bipartisan Addiction and Mental Health Task Force Co-Chairs Ann McLane Kuster, D-N.H., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., introduced the Honoring National Recovery Month Act to provide consistent funding for National Recovery Month programming.
April 8, 2021
GERMANTOWN, Md. (WDVM) — Leaders from Montgomery County and the state of Maryland came together on Wednesday for a tour of the new mass vaccination site at Montgomery College in Germantown.
April 5, 2021
FROSTBURG — Frostburg State University has received $320,000 in federal and local matching funds for the Western Maryland Advanced Technology Center, which will be used to support workforce and economic development in the region.
March 31, 2021
CUMBERLAND — As part of the American Rescue Plan to expand capacity at federal community health centers for COVID-19 vaccine distribution and access to health care beyond the pandemic, the Western Maryland Health Care Corp. in Oakland will receive $1.67 million.
March 30, 2021
More than $68.8 million has been allocated to community health centers in Maryland for COVID-19 vaccine distribution and expanded health care access.
March 29, 2021
U.S. Rep. David Trone was recently elected Democratic co-chairman of the Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking.