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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Daily Record: Online plans for hearings

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland residents interested in how the legislative sausage is made may soon have more options to follow bills in the General Assembly under a number of proposed changes to the rules and laws guiding the House of Delegates and Senate.
The Senate could vote as early as Tuesday on rule changes affecting the streaming of committee hearings and voting sessions. In the House of Delegates, Republicans are calling for more transparency in the legislative process through a bill that would require committee voting sessions to be live streamed and that House and Senate floor sessions be broadcast online with video...

“We’re catching up with today’s technology,” said Sen. Katherine A. Klausmeier, D-Baltimore County and chairwoman of the Senate Rules Committee.
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