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Maryland Democrats in Congress asked the Trump administration on Thursday to grant crab shacks temporary relief from a new rule that is preventing many from accepting food stamps for steamed crabs.... Officials warned carryout shops in the Baltimore area last year that they could no longer accept food stamps for crabs unless they sold them live or raw.
House Democrats are working to keep a flame to Facebook's feet ahead of the company's anticipated responses to lingering concerns over the handling of user data, as well its ongoing efforts to weed out foreign-bought political ads targeting American voters....
Members of Congress in the Baltimore area kicked off an annual competition encouraging students to build their own apps.... The Congressional App Challenge aims to encourage students to learn to code. It's open to middle and high school students within a given district. In the area, the districts of Rep. Elijah Cummings, Rep. John Sarbanes and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger are participating....
Emergent BioSolutions, a Gaithersburg company that develops and produces vaccines and other drugs, plans to expand one of its Baltimore plants, bolstering the state's status as a biotech hub and adding high paying jobs in the city.... The company plans to announce today it will invest $50 million over the next three years to expand its production capabilities and create up to 60 new jobs....
Some Democrats are annoyed with the cable news fixation on every twist and turn of the Russia investigation. Others think the party needs more focus on the issue. But Rep.
Democratic lawmakers unveiled a new reform-minded agenda Monday that's billed as "a better deal for our democracy." It builds on the "Better Deal" economic blueprint Democrats introduced last summer.... "We got to do things that make everyday Americans empowered in the democracy so they are calling the shots, not sitting in the bleachers," Rep.
Today the Democrats unveiled a new plank in their Better Deal agenda, an anti-corruption platform that both depicts the broken nature of the political system and puts reform at the forefront of any campaign to give regular people a voice in our democracy. It brings together the anti-Trump and populist-economics messages in a way that makes them inextricable.
Democrats are planning to make Washington corruption a central focus of their midterm messaging, reviving a successful theme from when they took control of Congress in 2006.... The anti-corruption push is the second part of Democrats' "A Better Deal" platform. The first part, released last summer, focused on an economic agenda.
House and Senate Democrats rolled out their campaign platform Monday, taking aim at corruption and pay-to-play politics in Washington under the Trump administration. They're betting this message will help them win voters in the months leading up to the 2018 midterm elections, when the party hopes to regain control of the House — and maybe even the Senate....