The committee will come to order. Good morning to everyone and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. With that, i will now recognize myself for my Opening Statement. I am honored to be convening todays hearing. My very first as chairwoman. As we continue to mourn the loss of our dear friend and colleague, chairman elijah cummings. And as i sit here today in his chair, i am mindful of his Lifelong Mission to seek not only Common Ground but higher ground. With that in mind, i am very pleased to hold todays hearing on an issue we have been fighting for, for many years. The need for comprehensive paid, family, and medical leave. It is an important its important for people to understand the Current Situation in our country. Right now, we are one of only two nations in the world that does not provide our workers with any form of paid family or medical leave. The United States and papua new guinea. I remember when i was pregnant with my f
Addition. He loved his community, and he was well loved in return. Speedy got his name because of his outstanding track skills. Speedy was a viet nam war veteran, and during his time in viet nam, he experienced tragedies that profoundly changed him. When he returned to San Francisco, he worked on organizing and strategizing for the betterment of black life. He helped organized a strike at San Francisco state university. This strike aimed to address racist policies and procedures and the pay of faculty on campus. Because of speedys activism, it led to the first pay Equality Program in the country. He also oversaw Community Efforts to develop lowincome housing and preserve black Home Ownership during the time of redevelopment. He guided the development of the 100 owned and operated Victoria Square complex located at sutter and fillmore streets. He also helped save many victorian homes owned by African Americans, and because of this, many of the African Americans were able to stay in thei
Clerk there are 10 ayes. President yee ordinary. This ordinance is passed on First Reading with 100 vote. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, please call the next item. [agenda item read]. President yee supervisor peskin or supervisor peskin ill defer to the maker. Supervisor safai so colleagues, this is a resolution related to a. D. U. S. We have had discussions for months in land use and transportation committee. Id like to thank supervisor peskin as well as members of the community that have waited patiently. This is a two phase program. One is a ministerial program, and one is ensuring that we have a local waiver program. It is making sure we have what is required at the state level. It is state law. Essentially, how the process works is if you want to put an a. D. U. In r. H. 1 through r. H. 3, you have to do it after the construction is done. This mirrors who at is allowedt the state level. We did this to look at new construction and ensuring that we would maximize a. D. U. S and
We begin i like remind my colleagues once again that this is a tax markup. Weve had quite a bit of discussion about the individual mandate and what that might mean for the impact of the mark, but even so the individual mandate is part of the tax code. It is by indivisible account well within the intended scope of the markup. I intend to rule in the amendments that go beyond changes to the Internal Revenue code, not germane. Similarly, i will rule nine germane in an image that would put the modified mark out of compliance with the committees reconciliations instruction. With that we will proceed to the consideration of amendments. Where going to begin by debating to amendments proposed by senator wyden for 20 minutes. After which we will vote on both amendments. Once we voted on those amendments we will call on to more amendments proposed by the Ranking Member for 20 minutes and vote on those as well. We will go to that point and then we will see where we are. Okay, senator wyden. Okay.
Gave his annual state of the state address earlier this week at the state house in annapolis. He spoke about the Opioid Epidemic, a rail project outside washington, d. C. , and the prospect and the federal tax bill signed by President Trump meaning higher taxes from maryland residents. Mr. Speaker, mr. President , members of the general assembly, distinguished guests and my fellow marylanders. Three years ago when i first had the honor of standing before this assembly to report on the state of our state, maryland was at a critical turning point. Our state economy was floundering and lagging behind the rest of the nation. Maryland was losing businesses, jobs and taxpayers at an alarming rate. Too many of our families and Small Businesses were struggling just to make ends meet. The people of maryland had become frustrated with politics as usual. Our state was at a crossroads and we faced a pivotal choice and continuing in the same direction and putting maryland on a new and better path a