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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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Sep 24, 2024

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…

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Sep 24, 2024

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?

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Sep 24, 2024

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.

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Sep 24, 2024

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…

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Sep 12, 2024

We have seen this through Huawei. We have seen this through ZTE.

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Sep 12, 2024

I appreciate that, and I agree with all your suggestions.

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Sep 12, 2024

I teamed up with former Senator Pat Toomey, and we passed bipartisan legislation entitled the Hong Kong Autonomy Act.

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Sep 12, 2024

I appreciate that, and I agree with all your suggestions.

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Sep 12, 2024

We have seen this through Huawei. We have seen this through ZTE.

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Sep 12, 2024

I teamed up with former Senator Pat Toomey, and we passed bipartisan legislation entitled the Hong Kong Autonomy Act.

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Sep 12, 2024

We need to either expand the use of that tool or look for other methods.

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Sep 11, 2024

I fight hard every year to make sure we secure necessary funding for the Social Security Administration.

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Sep 11, 2024

We are not going to let anyone weaken benefits and break our promise--not for seniors today and certainly not for seniors tomorrow.

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Sep 11, 2024

We could finally do away with the windfall elimination provision and the government pension offset.

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Sep 11, 2024

It is time for Congress to enact the Medicare and Social Security Fair Share Act.

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Sep 11, 2024

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.

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Sep 11, 2024

The bipartisan rebuke to cutting Social Security's customer service I think was heard throughout the country.

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Sep 11, 2024

I am pleased to say in the Senate Appropriations Committee, we worked on a bipartisan basis to put forward the budget that we did.

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Sep 11, 2024

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.

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Sep 11, 2024

I fight hard every year to make sure we secure necessary funding for the Social Security Administration.

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Sep 11, 2024

We are not going to let anyone weaken benefits and break our promise--not for seniors today and certainly not for seniors tomorrow.

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Sep 11, 2024

We have seen this through Huawei. We have seen this through ZTE.

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Sep 11, 2024

China is, obviously, using that surveillance technology for repressive reasons.

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Sep 11, 2024

I teamed up with former Senator Pat Toomey, and we passed bipartisan legislation entitled the Hong Kong Autonomy Act.

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Sep 11, 2024

I appreciate that, and I agree with all your suggestions.

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