I appreciate that, and I think it is important that people hear the revolving loan fund, because these are investments made by these, in this case, Montgomery County, in partnership with the private sector, and then the County gets its…
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.
So you anticipated my next question, is what can we do here at the federal level to incentivize what seems to be a good model, and so what are some of the vehicles you think that we could look at?
Clearly, we have an affordable housing crisis. We have a shortage of housing supply, and we are all here to try to learn more about what we can do to address those issues.
If I could ask you about another approach that Montgomery County, Maryland has taken for some time now toward more affordable housing, which is an inclusionary zoning process, and we have a process whereby if someone wants to develop, you…
I teamed up with former Senator Pat Toomey, and we passed bipartisan legislation entitled the Hong Kong Autonomy Act.
I teamed up with former Senator Pat Toomey, and we passed bipartisan legislation entitled the Hong Kong Autonomy Act.
I fight hard every year to make sure we secure necessary funding for the Social Security Administration.
We are not going to let anyone weaken benefits and break our promise--not for seniors today and certainly not for seniors tomorrow.
We could finally do away with the windfall elimination provision and the government pension offset.
It is time for Congress to enact the Medicare and Social Security Fair Share Act.
I want to thank Senator Murray for referencing her 40,000 constituents who are among almost three million public servants who are affected by this.
The bipartisan rebuke to cutting Social Security's customer service I think was heard throughout the country.
I am pleased to say in the Senate Appropriations Committee, we worked on a bipartisan basis to put forward the budget that we did.
I do want to take this opportunity to thank you for your great service, first as mayor of Baltimore and then governor of our great state of Maryland.
I fight hard every year to make sure we secure necessary funding for the Social Security Administration.
We are not going to let anyone weaken benefits and break our promise--not for seniors today and certainly not for seniors tomorrow.
China is, obviously, using that surveillance technology for repressive reasons.
I teamed up with former Senator Pat Toomey, and we passed bipartisan legislation entitled the Hong Kong Autonomy Act.





