HAGERSTOWN — U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski says Congress has approved $43 million to continue production of border-patrol planes in Hagerstown. The Democratic senator said Monday that the funds were part of a continuing resolution Congress passed last week to keep ...

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Johns Hopkins University officials have scheduled a memorial service for former president Steven Muller. Muller led the school from 1972 to 1990 and also led The Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1972 to 1983. He died Jan. 19 at his home ...

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., continued to push for passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act on Wednesday, leading a group of Senate Democrats who spoke out in support of the bill on the Senate floor. The act, which ...

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WASHINGTON — The Maryland delegation put women’s issues at the forefront of its agenda Wednesday with the reintroduction of both the Violence Against Women Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., took the lead in the Senate, ...

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The Maryland General Assembly opened its 2013 session Wednesday in the State House in Annapolis. Elected officials and activists spoke about the various legislative initiatives they intend to pursue this session.

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U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus of Greenbelt will step down from active service next January, the jurist stated in letters to President Barack Obama and Maryland’s two U.S. senators dated Tuesday.

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland Democratic members of Congress will gather with state legislators for their 15th annual lunch on the eve of the General Assembly’s legislative session. The lunch is being held in Annapolis on Tuesday. Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Ben ...

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A few government and politics headlines for Thursday.

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Adding to a lifetime of firsts, U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., announced Wednesday that she expects to become the first woman chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, succeeding Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, who died Monday. Mikulski’s announcement came ...

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WASHINGTON — Forty-four senators have written to Cuba’s president to call for the release of a Maryland man imprisoned in Cuba for almost three years. The one-page letter released Tuesday is signed by 34 Democrats, nine Republicans and independent Joseph ...

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