Press Releases
  • Van Hollen Service Academy Application Process Underway
    Sep 27, 2012  - Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen’s Service Academy application process for the entering Class of 2013 is underway. Students from Maryland’s Eighth Congressional District who wish to attend one of the Uniformed Service Academies should obtain an application packet from his website at http://vanh...
  • Van Hollen, Cardin, Mikulski Present $40m Check To Montgomery County For New Pedestrian Tunnel Between NIH And Walter Reed
    Sep 24, 2012  - Today Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen and U.S Senators Ben Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski (all D-MD) visited the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Gateway Center today to award $40 million to Montgomery County and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority (WMATA) for a new pe...
  • Van Hollen Announces Renewed Funding for University of Maryland-NIST Cooperative Agreement
    Sep 19, 2012  - Today Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen announced the renewal of a successful collaboration between the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for a period of three years. This agreement funds NIST activities at the Institute of Bioscience and Biotec...
  • Van Hollen: Ruling a Blow to Transparency
    Sep 18, 2012  - Today Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen issued the following statement on the ruling of the DC Court of Appeals to overturn Van Hollen v. FEC: “Today the DC Court of Appeals struck a blow against transparency in the funding of political campaigns and reinstated the flawed regulation that rendere...
  • Van Hollen Honors Beverly Clarke as an Angel in Adoption
    Sep 17, 2012  - Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen has selected Beverly Clarke as a 2012 Angel in Adoption for her outstanding efforts on behalf of children in Maryland. She is the director of Project Wait No Longer, a program of the Barker Foundation in Bethesda that partners with public social service agencies...
  • Van Hollen, Mikulski, Cardin Announce Release of $7.3 Million for BRAC-Related Transit Project
    Sep 17, 2012  - Today Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen, Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, and Senator Ben Cardin (all D-MD) announced the Defense Department will release a $7.3 million grant to the Maryland Department of Transportation’s State Highway Administration to construct improvements at the intersection of ...
  • Van Hollen Announces STEM Grant for Montgomery College
    Sep 14, 2012  - Today Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen announced that the National Science Foundation has awarded a $300,000 grant to Montgomery College’s “Teaching Pathways Opening Doors to STEM” project. The program will help increase the number of teachers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, ...
  • Van Hollen Statement on OMB Sequester Report
    Sep 14, 2012  - Today Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen, Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, issued the following statement on the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) sequester transparency report. This report provides only an estimate of cuts under sequestration since OMB was mandated to base its...
  • Van Hollen: Republican Sequester Replacement is a Charade
    Sep 13, 2012  - Today Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen, Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, spoke on the House floor in opposition to the Republican sequester replacement bill that does not take a balanced approach to deficit reduction. Video of his remarks is available here and the transcript is bel...
  • Van Hollen Condemns Attack on Americans in Libya
    Sep 12, 2012  - Today Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen released the following statement condemning yesterday’s attacks against Americans in Libya, which took the lives of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, and two other Americans: “I stand with President ...