U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) today joined with Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) to introduce a Senate resolution fighting against cuts to Social Security benefits for seniors and disabled veterans through using the Chained Consumer Price Index (Chained CPI) to calculate cost-of-living adjustm

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Saturday April 20th, 2013, at 9am, just outside the White House, Activists Candace Junkin, Rebecca Forbes, Wayward Bill and many others including journalist, photographers, and supportive citizens gathered to protest the prohibition of cannabis.

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Red_Neckason

 Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-5) released the following statement today after a shooting in Webster, NY. 

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As the United States Postal Service (USPS) meets with key leaders this week to discuss its future, a new survey by Catalog Choice - a TrustedID company and the nation's largest mail preference service

4 Comments as of 6/13/2012 11:34 AM, Last Comment by

lovebug

With the largest civilian fleet in the world - nearly 214,000 vehicles traveling nearly 1.3 billion miles each year - the U.S. Postal Service knows a lot about vehicles and tire pressure.

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RazmaTaz

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Air and Marine (OAM) P-3, operating out of National Air Security Operations Center-Jacksonville (NASOC-JAX), detected two go-fast vessels carrying more than 4,840 pounds of cocaine with a combined value of more than $362 million.

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Taser4

Racial profiling is un-American. It is against our values, it wastes valuable resources, and it should have no place in modern law enforcement. It's time that we move forward in guaranteeing to every American in this country equal justice under the law," Senator Cardin testified.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released two separate draft guidance documents to help fight the tobacco epidemic and stop children from using tobacco.

4 Comments as of 9/10/2012 1:18 PM, Last Comment by

balooangle

U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) today expressed full support for the U.S. Department of Justice investigation into the avoidable shooting death of Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012.

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Fish_N_Chips

U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski (both D-MD) joined a bipartisan group of 24 Senators in calling on the President to bring American combat forces home from Afghanistan at a faster pace.

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jaybird

A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 59,389,913 visitors in 2010 spent $1.7 billion in national parks in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia and in communities near the parks. That spending supported 22,650 jobs in those local areas.

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IHOP, one of America's favorite restaurants for breakfast, lunch and dinner, will once again invite guests to enjoy free pancakes while supporting a worthy cause as part of the company's philanthropic National Pancake Day on Tuesday, February 28, 2012.

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Southern Maryland residents might notice today, that some of the popular websites (Google, Firefox, Wikipedia, 4chan, Drudge Report, Etc.) contain black bars blocking out text or logos, phrases like "SOPA", "PIPA", "Internet Censorship"; and some sites are completely unavailable.

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MdAnon

As part of the Obama Administration's Campaign to Cut Waste, Vice President Biden announced the U.S. Mint would suspend the production of presidential dollar coins for circulation.

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U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), spoke from the floor of the U.S. Senate to commemorate this week's 10-year anniversary of the anthrax attacks that took the lives of two U.S. Postal Workers.

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U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), along with Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD) and Mary Landrieu (D-LA) have introduced legislation to strengthen and improve a federal program that provides an important safety net for first responders who are killed or permanently disabled in t

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Today, the Obama Administration announced the selection of 14 infrastructure projects around the country that will be expedited through permitting and environmental review processes.

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The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) and the NWTF renewed their collaborative commitment to enhance habitat for wild turkey and other wildlife with the signing of a cooperative agreement today. Signing the agreement were Bruce Nelson, FSA administrator, and George Thornton, chief executive officer of

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"We have missed, in my opinion, a wonderful opportunity. An opportunity to make a 'grand bargain,' as the Speaker wanted to do, as Leader Pelosi wanted to do, as Leader Reid wanted to do, as the president wanted to do, and as the Vice President wanted to do."

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dako

Dr. Timothy Reinhold, senior vice president of research and chief engineer at the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) and Dr. Mark Powell, an atmospheric scientist with NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories (AOML), have been awarded a U.S. patent for their i

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josephechick