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Senate Committees
Finance Committee (FIN)
 Finance (FIN)

Banks and other financial institutions; credit regulation and
consumer financing;

Commercial law, including consumer protection; economic and community development; insurance;

Horse racing and lotteries; health and welfare matters; social programs;

State personnel issues; transportation; labor and employment; unemployment insurance; utility regulation; and workers’ compensation.
3 East, Miller Senate Building, Annapolis, MD 21401

(410-841-3677 Annapolis/Baltimore or 301-858-3677 Washington, D.C.)


Chair: Thomas M. Middleton

Vice Chair: John C. Astle                                             Rob Garagiola

Katherine Klausmeier

Barry Glassman

James N. Mathias, Jr.

Delores G. Kelley

C. Anthony Muse

Allan H. Kittleman

E. J. Pipkin

Catherine E. Pugh

House Committees
 Economic Matters (ECM)
Banks and other financial institutions; commercial law, including consumer protection;
Corporations and associations; business regulation; business occupations and professions;

Economic development; electronic commerce; insurance regulation, except health insurance; 

Labor and employment; unemployment insurance; utility regulation; workers’ compensation; and alcoholic beverages.

Chair: Dereck E. Davis
Vice Chair: David D. Rudolph Charles Barkley
Ben Kramer
Ben Barnes
Mary Ann E. Love
Aisha N. Braveboy
Brian K. McHale
Emmett C. Burns, Jr.
Warren E. Miller
Brian J. Feldman
Joseph J. Minnick
Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio
John Olszewski, Jr.
Hattie N. Harrison
Steven R. Schuh
Stephen S. Hershey, Jr.
Kelly Schulz
Tom Hucker
Donna M. Stifler
Rick Impallaria
Michael L. Vaughn
Sally Jameson
 Subcommittees
(appointed by the standing committee chair)
Alcoholic Beverages Subcommittee
Chair: Charles Barkley Dereck Davis
Hattie Harrison
Richard Impallaria
Mary Ann Love
Brian McHale
Warren Miller
Joseph J. Minnick
Donna Stifler 
Banking, Economic Development, Science and Technology Subcommittee (BEST)
Chair: Brian J. Feldman Ben Barnes
Aisha Braveboy
Stephen Hershey
Benjamin F. Kramer
David D. Rudolph
Kelly Schulz
Michael L. Vaughn
 Business Regulation Subcommittee
Chair: Michael L. Vaughn Aisha Braveboy
Emmett C. Burns, Jr.
Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio
Benjamin F. Kramer
Joseph J. Minnick
David D. Rudolph
Steven Schuh
Kelly Schulz 
Consumer Protection and Commercial Law Subcommittee
Chair: Aisha Braveboy Tom Hucker
Benjamin F. Kramer
David D. Rudolph
Steven Schuh
Donna Stifler 
Property and Casualty Insurance Subcommittee
Chair: David D. Rudolph Brian J. Feldman
Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio
Tom Hucker
Rick Impallaria
Sally Jameson
Mary Ann Love
Warren E. Miller
John Olszewski, Jr.
 Public Utilities Subcommittee
Chair: Brian K. McHale Charles Barkley
Ben Barnes
Dereck E. Davis
Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio
Sally Jameson
Warren E. Miller
John Olszewski, Jr.
Steven Schuh 
Unemployment Insurance Subcommittee
Chair: Emmett C. Burns, Jr. Hattie Harrison
Stephen S. Hershey, Jr.
Joseph J. Minnick
David D. Rudolph
Donna Stifler
 Workers' Compensation Subcommittee
Chair: Sally Jameson Tom Hucker
Rick Impallaria
Mary Ann Love
David D. Rudolph
Kelly Schulz

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WE NEED POLITICIANS WHO ARE NOT CONCERNED WITH WHETHER NATIONALIZING BANKS AND NATURAL RESOURCES LIKE NATURAL GAS AND OIL IS BAD FOR BUSINESSES.  WE NEED POLS WHO THINK NATIONALIZATION OF SOME VITAL NATIONAL INTEREST BUSINESS IS A GOOD THING.  ARE WE TRYING TO BECOME SOCIALISTS......NO.....ARE WE TRYING TO PROTECT PEOPLE FROM A SYSTEMICALLY CRIMINAL BUSINESS SECTOR......YES.  UNTIL WE CAN TURN THE PENDULUM BACK TOWARDS A REASONABLE RULE OF LAW AND MORAL BUSINESS ETHIC WE NEED POLS THAT WILL BUILD PROTECTION AROUND THIS MESS.  IF WE LOOK AT SPAIN WHERE MOST OF THEIR BANKS WERE NATIONALIZED WE SEE YET ANOTHER RECIPE FOR DISASTER.  WE DON'T WANT TO NATIONALIZE THE SYSTEM, WE SIMPLY WANT CHOICES.

WHEN MARYLAND'S ATTORNEY GENERAL GANSLER WAS ASKED TO TAKE PUBLIC MONEY OUT OF WALL STREET BANKS AND INTO COMMUNITY BANKS HE COMPLETELY IGNORED SUCH A SUGGESTION AND CONTINUED TO GIVE THESE WALL STREET BANKS PROTECTION ABOVE AND BEYOND.

SHOUT LOUDLY AND STRONGLY FOR GIVING CHOICE IN BANKING WITH PUBLIC BANKS!!!!

Public Banks are ...
•   Viable solutions to the present economic crises in US states.
•   Potentially available to any-sized government or communityable to meet the requirements for setting up a bank.
•   Owned by the people of a state or community.
•   Economically sustainable, because they operate transparently according toapplicable banking regulations. •   Able to offset pressures for tax increases with returned credit income to thecommunity.
•   Ready sources of affordable credit for local governments, eliminating the needfor large “rainy day” funds. •   Required to promote the public interest, as defined in theircharters.
•   Constitutional, as ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court
  and are not
•   Operated by politicians; rather, they are run by professionalbankers.
  •   Boondoggles for bank executives; rather, their employees aresalaried public servants (paid by the state, with a transparent pay structure)who would likely not earn bonuses, commissions or fees for generating loans
•   Speculative ventures that maximize profits in the short term,without regard to the long-term interests of the public