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I’ve been invited on behalf of Del. Michael D. Smigiel (R-36) to testify at the House Judiciary Committee tomorrow on behalf of his bill HB 9.  This bill would allow conceal weapon permit holders from neighboring states to carry their weapons in Maryland.  A similar bill was introduced by Smigiel last year but failed in the same committee.

I’m in the midst of writing my testimony.  I hope to have a written version available for download after my testimony.  I will be live tweeting during the hearing and hopefully will be able to provide a vote tally before I leave.

If legislative term limits ever needed a poster child, it would be Jim Moran (D-VA 8).  It seems like each term he gets elected to makes him dumber.  In a recent interview, Moran says:

The fact is that when you cover another 40 million people so that we and localities and so on don’t have to pay for uncompensated care — we pay for more than $100 million of uncompensated care through tax bills just in the 8th district alone — the fact is that when you cover another 40 million people, that’s hundreds of thousands of new jobs in the private sector for health professionals.

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