Tag: Dutch Ruppersberger
State Roundup: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi remembers Baltimore hometown as she steps down from leadership
Baltimore native Nancy Pelosi and Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer are stepping back from Democratic Party leadership positions, Pelosi as a powerful Speaker of the House for almost two decades.
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Maryland Voters Guide: candidates for Congress
This is a voters guide for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. It includes links to the...
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Maryland Reporter’s Voters Guide for Congress
This is a voters guide for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. These candidates are also...
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State Roundup: Marylanders politically engaged; IRS goes after Mosbys; new Hogan chief
Maryland ranks near top of states with most political engagement.
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State Roundup: School shuttered 4 more weeks; distance-learning gears up
As positive cases rise by 74, schools shuttered til April 24; distance-learning gears up
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Matory: Once a Democratic candidate, now a conservative Republican for Congress
Liz Matory is running for Congress after going from a liberal Democrat to a conservative Republican, a change she made after knocking on doors as a field organizer.
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Democratic incumbents face challengers in Columbia forum
The three incumbent Democratic congressmen who represent Howard County showed up at a forum Saturday to face their opponents. Missing was one challenger, Republican Del. Pat McDonough, who had loudly complained that Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger refused to debate him.
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Delaney, Harris vote for restrictions on Syrian refugees, five Md. Dems opposed
Maryland Rep. John Delaney was among 47 Democrats to join with almost all House Republicans, including Rep. Andy Harris, Thursday in blocking further admissions of Syrian refugees into the United States pending tougher vetting. The restrictions, in a bill called the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act, passed on a 287-137 vote, despite a veto threat from President Barack Obama. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Timonium, was recovering from surgery and was one of only eight representatives who did not vote.
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Brown concedes and predicts ‘tough road’ for Hogan
“Tonight we fell short of our goal,” Brown told his supporters in his concession speech, “but it does not and cannot diminish the work that each and every one of you has done in our communities throughout our state.” Brown said to hearty applause. “This was a tough campaign because there was a lot at stake and a lot worth fighting for. Governing is difficult, demanding work. Larry and his team have a tough road ahead of them. I wish them the very best as they travel that road.”
Read MoreRuppersberger: Obama made ‘big mistake’ in handling phone surveillance controversy
Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, called Edward Joseph Snowden, who recently leaked classified information about the National Security Agency, “a legend in his own mind,” and said President Obama made “a big mistake” in saying he had informed Congress about the surveillance of phone records, when he actually had not.
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Commentary: More NSA disclosures cause loss of trust
Who will protect us from those who are supposed to protect us? That is the question that lingers after the disclosure of two programs that monitor the phone records and Internet use of millions of Americans by the National Security Agency, based at Maryland’s Fort Meade in Anne Arundel County.
Read MoreRuppersberger questioned about Benghazi attack in debate
In Monday’s debate between U.S. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger and his Republican challenger for Maryland’s 2nd Congressional District, Sen. Nancy Jacobs, Ruppersberger questioned why the safe room in the Benghazi compound where U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens died of asphyxiation did not have an air supply.
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