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When it comes to national security, good intelligence is the best defense. The key to good intelligence is facts, data, unvarnished analysis, and no politics. That this bears repeating in today, as we face threats from domestic terrorism to nuclear weapons, is alarming to us as the former chairman and ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee.
(Washington, D.C.) – Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) today issued the following statement after the Government of Israel announced its decision to prevent Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering the country:
Washington, DC (August 15, 2019)— Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, along with Congressmen Steny H.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Representatives Elijah E. Cummings, Dutch Ruppersberger, and John Sarbanes (all D-Md.) issued the following statement announcing $1.1 million in federal funding for the Canton Railroad Company from the Department of Transportation (DOT).
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Representatives Elijah E. Cummings, Dutch Ruppersberger, and John Sarbanes (all D-Md.) issued the following statement announcing $1.9 million in federal funding for Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Scaling Apprenticeship Through Sector-Based Strategies grant program.
It was the fall of 2007, and I was at a briefing with the Director of National Intelligence – at the time, Adm. Mike McConnell – and Melissa Hathaway, the director of the Joint Interagency Cyber Task Force. We huddled in a secure, windowless room in the U.S. Capitol. I wasn’t surprised they were asking a member of Congress for money.
(WASHINGTON, DC) — Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, an Appropriator who serves on the Homeland Security Subcommittee, issued the following statement in advance of today’s oversight hearing on the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), where Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost will testify. The hearing will be broadcast live at 2 p.m.
(WASHINGTON, DC) — Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, today endorsed a bipartisan agreement between Congress and the Trump Administration to raise unworkable caps on federal spending and suspend the debt ceiling.
(Washington, DC) -- Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, along with Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Elijah E.