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Chris Van Hollen

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Chris Van Hollen is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Maryland since January 3, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Maryland's 8th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2017. Throughout his career, Van Hollen has focused on issues such as economic policy, healthcare, and education reform.

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Jul 28, 2019

The words he uses with respect to African-American elected officials, the places they live, sometimes the countries their ancestors come from is especially degrading. I mean, this talk of infestation always trying to associate these places…

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Apr 30, 2019

What I believe is that he flat-out deceived me and the Congress.

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Apr 30, 2019

It seems to me that we see just a continuing pattern of deception from the attorney general.

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Feb 27, 2019

I start by associating myself with the remarks of my friend, the senior Senator from the State of Maryland, Mr. Cardin, both with respect to the vital importance of moving forward on climate change legislation here in the Senate and with…

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Dec 21, 2018

I thank my colleague from Maryland and the body and now urge the House of Representatives to take this up immediately. This has now passed the U.S. Senate, and they now have an opportunity to pass this over in the House, and I would urge…

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Dec 10, 2018

I just find it curious. We have had people advocating here that a firm like T. Rowe Price just does not know what it is doing.

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Dec 10, 2018

I understand your position with respect to decisions that have to be made by corporations for the benefit of their shareholders.

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Dec 10, 2018

If it is happening a lot more frequently in this period in the 8 days after stock buybacks, I think that would be a problem.

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Dec 10, 2018

If executives are using stock buybacks to elevate the price of their stock and then quickly cash out their own compensation, that would be a problem from your perspective.

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Dec 10, 2018

The evidence is overwhelming that, in fact, they are using that money for stock buybacks.

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Dec 5, 2018

Those measures would deny all but the largest shareholders the right to submit proposals for a vote.

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Dec 5, 2018

It's why we should foster more shareholder engagement, not less.

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Dec 5, 2018

I just find it a strange...that risk should be borne by those firms that make that decision.

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Dec 5, 2018

You, T. Rowe Price, do not really know what is good for you, and we are going to insist that we go through this other process

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Dec 5, 2018

I do find it a strange world where we are equating that to credit rating agencies.

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Dec 5, 2018

It will make it more difficult for people to compete.

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Dec 5, 2018

I would just suggest that adding this additional layer of requirement and requirements on people who are providing advice actually will raise the cost of new entrants.

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Dec 5, 2018

We make our own voting decisions using the independent research provided to us by our proxy advisor as one factor, among many, used to inform our firm's voting positions.

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Dec 5, 2018

Shareholders of all sizes deserve to have every tool available to hold executives accountable.

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Dec 5, 2018

These measures would deny all but the largest shareholders the right to submit proposal for a vote.

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Dec 5, 2018

It is why we should foster more shareholder engagement, not less.

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Nov 28, 2018

The President has certainly made some statements saying maybe that is not so bad that we are not exerting maximum pressure anymore on North Korea's economy.

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