Republicans are casting the November elections as areferendumonPresident Obama, but the results could also help shape the fortunes ofRep. Chris Van Hollen, a fast-rising Maryland Democrat facing a tough test.
After moving through the ranks with bright prospects ahead, Van Hollen has the unenviable task of steering his party through what could be its worst election cycle in 16 years. For Van Hollen, in his fourth term representing Montgomery County and his second as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the performance in 2010 will likely help determine the next step in his political career.
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen (Md.) and the Democratic National Committee separately asked a three-judge panel last week to intervene in a Republican National Committee case that questioned aspects of the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act.
No one in Congress is closer to President-elect Barack Obama's incoming chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, than Rep. Chris Van Hollen.
But in typical Van Hollen style, the Maryland Democrat is taking steps to ensure that his key channel into the Obama administration remains his domain.
Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen can add another leadership position to his resume.
Van Hollen will serve as the assistant to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a role she expanded this week to include incumbent retention.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) will be adding another task to his already full plate for the 111th Congress: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has placed him in charge of “incumbent retention” for endangered Democrats.
ALBUQUERQUE -- Ever since he ousted a popular Republican congresswoman in 2002, Rep. Chris Van Hollen has enjoyed a reputation as a giant-slayer. Now the Montgomery County legislator is wielding his grass-roots organizing experience as head of the Democrats' House campaigns nationwide, hoping to add to his party's majority in Congress.
On Saturday, July 12, 2008, Congressman Chris Van Hollen delivered the weekly Democratic Radio Address. The address aired locally on WTOP and live on all major radio stations including AP, ABC, NPR, CBS Radio, CNN Radio, Fox News Radio, C-SPAN, Armed Forces Radio Network, American Urban Radio Network, Voice of America Radio Network, BBC Radio, CBC Radio, and Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
In his five years in Congress, Chris Van Hollen has become one of the barons of Capitol Hill—sharp, steely, ambitious . . . but Tom DeLay or Rahm Emanuel he’s not.
We Must Embark on a New Direction in Iraq
The Hill's Congress Blog
Rep. Chris Van Hollen
November 15th, 2007
The Orderly and Responsible Iraq Deployment Appropriations Act sets forth a realistic strategy for the responsible redeployment of our combat troops in Iraq. The Bush Administration has requested another 200 billion dollar blank check for the war in Iraq to pursue a flawed strategy that has no end in sight and that continually puts our brave men and women in the armed services in the middle of Iraq’s civil war.
Washington // While the political world is focusing on next year's presidential contest, one Maryland congressman is spending his time on 435 races that might have as much bearing on the future of the nation.
It's Chris Van Hollen's job as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to ensure that his party maintains control of Congress into the next administration.
Calm, Cool, and Collecting
The Dems' new Congressional Campaign Committee chief has big shoes to fill
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Five years ago, Chris Van Hollen got used to facing long odds. In the first congressional primary of his life, he was outspent and facing off against both a former top staffer to President Clinton, and Mark Shriver, the nephew of former President Kennedy. "It was pretty clear," Van Hollen says, "that I was the underdog." But he won that race by 5,000 votes in a Maryland district just outside Washington. And eight weeks later, he vanquished a popular 16-year veteran in the general election, becoming one of only two Democrats in 2002 to steal a Republican-held seat.
Opponents of allowing selected polling stations to open five days before Election Day reached a milestone in their drive to overturn the measure yesterday, while Democrats intensified their rhetoric in support of the plan.
It was a strategic hit, and apparently somewhat successful. Less than a week before Pennsylvania's May 16 primary, freshman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., held a conference call with reporters from the northeastern part of the state to announce that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had designated Rep. Don Sherwood, R-Pa., as "Crony of the Week."
In March, we celebrate Women's History Month and honor the historic contributions that women have made our great nation. We remember those who have fought for progress in women's rights and recognize those who continue to fight to expand opportunities for women.
Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, has tapped Reps. Chris Van Hollen (Md.) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) to serve as co-chairmen of the DCCC’s “Red to Blue” program.
