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April 28, 2021
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WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman David Trone (MD-06) issued the below statement following President Biden’s first Joint Address to Congress:
April 26, 2021
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WASHINGTON - U.S. Congressman David Trone, Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (all D-Md.) today announced $802,000 in federal funding to replace the water distribution lines in the Town of Luke. Funding comes from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development mission area as a part of the Water and Waste Disposal Loans and Grants Program.
April 26, 2021
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WASHINGTON – In honor of Second Chance Month, Representative David Trone (MD-06) hosted a roundtable discussion on the need to reform our broken criminal justice system. Trone was joined by Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE-At Large) and a panel of experts from across Maryland.
April 26, 2021
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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 Brown, and Jamie Raskin (all Md.) today announced more than $12.8 million in federal funding from the American Rescue Plan to meet the academic, emotional, social and mental health needs of homeless students across the state.
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:
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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.