On June 23rd, Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Todd Young (R-IN) co-led a bipartisan letter to the Senate State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations Subcommittee calling for $262,850,000 in funding for global demining programs.
The letter also supports targeted increased funding for critical mine action efforts in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Laos, Nagorno Karabakh, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.
A record-breaking number of 34 Senators signed the letter this year, supporting life-saving humanitarian demining programs and promoting U.S values abroad.
The letter was signed by the following Senators:
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), Sen. Richard "Dick" Blumenthal (D-CT), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen Brian Schatz (D-HI), Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN), Sen Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Sen. Todd Young (R-IN).
