Senate Schedules Final Congressional Map Vote for Tuesday
Republicans offer only one amendment in a debate some expected would last until late Monday night.
UPDATED (7:23 p.m.)—A bill redrawing eight congressional districts in Maryland moved one step closer to final passage in the Senate with a 33-13 vote Monday night. The vote, taken nearly an hour after a specially appointed 15-member Senate committee voted late Monday afternoon to approve Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan, was anticlimactic. Republicans offered just one amendment to the bill in a debate that lasted minutes rather than hours. Sen. E.J. Pipkin's amendment would have stripped out O'Malley's plan in favor of Pipkin's, which added a third majority minority district and kept intact the two Republican districts. In the end, the Senate voted 13-33 to kill the amendment. Sen. Jim Brochin, of Towson, was the lone Democrat joining …
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Susan Jenkins
8:48 am on Thursday, October 6, 2011
Again, great comments from Sam and I hope you are all sending them in to the state before the Oct. 11 deadline. We're working on another article that will specifically look at the Cape and the way they proposed dividing it. more ›