First elected to the Senate in 2014. Member of the Senate since 2015.
Current Assignments
2019 Budget and Taxation Committee
2023 Pensions Subcommittee of the Budget and Taxation Subcommittee
2021 Public Safety, Transportation, and Environment Subcommittee of the Budget and Taxation Committee
2023 Legislative Policy Committee
2021 Spending Affordability Committee
2023 Special Joint Legislative Committee to Select the State Treasurer 2023
2023 Joint Committee on Gaming Oversight
2019 Joint Committee on Protocol
2019 Joint Committee on Ending Homelessness
2022 Veterans Caucus Executive Board (Member 2015)
Past Senate Service
Public Safety, Transportation, and Environment Subcommittee, Budget and Taxation Committee, 2019; Health and Human Services Subcommittee of the Budget and Taxation Committee, 2020-2021; Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee, 2015-2018; Environment Subcommittee of the Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee, 2015-2018; Joint Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, 2019-2020.
Past House Service
Joint Committee on Fair Practices and State Personnel Oversight, 2015-2017.
Public Service
Workgroup on Adaptive Reuse of Vacant Commercial Space, 2021-; Two-Generation Family Economic Security Commission, 2017-2018; "Reform on Tap" Task Force, 2017.
Memberships
Waterman's Caucus, 2018-; Maryland Military Installation Caucus, 2017-; United Steelworkers of America; Native American LifeLines; Moose Lodge, #1228, Dundalk.
Biographical Information
Born, Baltimore, Maryland, 1961; Sparrows Point High School, 1979; United States Army, Combat Engineer, 1979-1981; Steelworker, LaFarge of North America; Five children, two grandchildren. |