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Fixing the debt requires bipartisan cooperation
Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin recently hosted an event in Annapolis to discuss the national debt and how it relates to businesses in the state. It was refreshing to finally hear a member of Congress talk about the need for politicians to work toward a...
Tags: Politics, Annapolis, U.S. Congress
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Cardin, Hoyer top list of speakers at western Md. Democratic summit in Hagerstown
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Some of Maryland's top Democratic elected officials are joining party members from western Maryland at an annual meeting in Hagerstown. U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin and Rep. Steny Hoyer are among the scheduled speakers at Saturday'...Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Montgomery County (Maryland), John Delaney, Steny Hoyer
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Powerful poison Ricin found in letter sent to U.S. senator
WASHINGTON -- An envelope laced with the lethal poison Ricin and addressed to a U.S. senator was found at a Maryland mail processing facility, officials said Tuesday. The envelope, intended for the office of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), was discovered...
Tags: Robert Mueller, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Barbara A. Mikulski, Janet Napolitano, Angus King
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Bill to require sales tax for online purchases advances in Senate
Online shoppers would have to pay state sales taxes on more purchases under legislation that advanced in the U.S. Senate on Monday — but Marylanders could also wind up paying a smaller increase in gasoline taxes. Bricks-and-mortar stores have long...
Tags: Severna Park, Republican Party, Crime, Law and Justice, Chris Christie, eBay Inc.
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Cardin pledges to press for sequestration alternative in town hall meetings
Sen. Ben Cardin lamented snowballing damage from federal budget cuts in town hall meetings with federal workers and small-business leaders Friday, pledging to work toward an alternative budget solution by October. But he acknowledged that achieving a...
Tags: Ken Ulman, NASA, Employees, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Congress
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Obama budget would have big impact in Md.
Labor unions representing federal employees reacted angrily to the $3.8 trillion budget unveiled Wednesday by President Barack Obama, who proposed trimming $20 billion from federal retirement benefits — reopening a debate many Democrats felt had...Tags: Social Security, Republican Party, Montgomery County (Maryland), U.S. House Committee on the Budget, NASA
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Filibuster rules at heart of gun bill 'defeat'
Do the people of the United States know that the U.S. Senate voted favorably on several amendments to the gun control bill? A majority of senators approved amendments requiring background checks for online and gun show purchases, providing special...Tags: Politics, Republican Party, Interior Policy, U.S. Senate, Barbara A. Mikulski
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Md. senator to meet with family of Sergei Magnitsky
WASHINGTON (AP) — Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin is scheduled to meet with the family of the late Sergei Magnitsky Cardin, who is a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is scheduled to meet Thursday with Magnitsky's mother, Natalya,...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Washington, DC
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Cardin to meet with family of Russian lawyer
Sen. Ben Cardin is scheduled to meet Thursday with the family of a Russian lawyer whose death sparked an international outcry over human rights in that country, renewing focus on a controversy that has complicated U.S.-Russian relations at a sensitive...
Tags: Laws, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Corporate Crime
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A faint echo of 9/11
WASHINGTON -- The morning after the Boston Marathon bombings, Ben Cardin, the first speaker on the Senate floor after leaders opened the day's session, marked the national crisis with some heartfelt thoughts on … school libraries. "Across the...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Drugs and Medicines, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, Earl Blumenauer
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Advocates, insurers duel over cost of child dental coverage
Like most 3-year-olds, Mariah Venable is a climber and a jumper. And sometimes she lands on her face instead of her legs. Her acrobatic attempts have cost her two baby teeth already — and have left her mother thankful she has good dental...
Tags: Insurance, Family, Crime, Law and Justice, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Consumers
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Obama establishes Tubman park on Eastern Shore
President Barack Obama set aside 480 acres on the Eastern Shore on Monday as a national monument to honor Harriet Tubman — a victory for advocates who have long sought to memorialize the abolitionist's role in leading dozens of slaves to freedom....Tags: Wildlife, Crime, Law and Justice, Slavery, Africa, Human Interest
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