CONGRESSMAN CHRIS VAN HOLLEN
Maryland’s 8th District
For Immediate Release
August 7, 2015
Van Hollen Calls on Hogan and Boehner to Support National Redistricting Reform
Washington, DC –Today Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen, original cosponsor of the Redistricting Reform Act of 2015, released a letter to Governor Larry Hogan on his plan for redistricting reform in Maryland and sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner calling for a vote on national reform to end the partisan drawing of congressional districts.
“As an original co-sponsor of the Redistricting Reform Act of 2015, federal legislation to end the partisan drawing of congressional districts throughout the country, I read with interest your proposal for a non-partisan congressional redistricting committee in Maryland,” Congressman Van Hollen wrote to Governor Hogan. “I am open to reviewing your proposal for a commission here in Maryland, and I hope you will join me in calling upon Speaker Boehner to allow a vote on our federal legislation for national redistricting reform.”
Congressman Van Hollen today also sent a letter to Speaker Boehner calling for action on national redistricting reform. The letter to Speaker Boehner is available
here.
The full text of Congressman Van Hollen’s letter to Governor Hogan is below:
Dear Governor Hogan,
As an original co-sponsor of the Redistricting Reform Act of 2015, federal legislation to end the partisan drawing of congressional districts throughout the country, I read with interest your proposal for a non-partisan congressional redistricting committee in Maryland. I am open to reviewing your proposal for a commission here in Maryland, and I hope you will join me in calling upon Speaker Boehner to allow a vote on our federal legislation for national redistricting reform.
I trust you will agree that it makes more sense to have one set of nonpartisan rules for the entire country rather than a state-by-state approach that can be used to disadvantage one party over the other at the national level. Will you join me in calling upon Speaker Boehner to do for the nation what you propose to do in Maryland?
Sincerely,
Chris Van Hollen
