ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Signing up to speak at a bill hearing or file written testimony got harder — and for some, maybe impossible — after the coronavirus pandemic shifted how the Maryland General Assembly accepts witness testimonies.
In previous years, interested parties would trek to Annapolis the morning of a bill hearing and sign up to testify. If they needed assistance in the process, lobbyists could do it for them...
https://wtop.com/maryland/2021/02/some-struggle-with-new-bill-testimony-system-in-maryland/
Rules, rules, everywhere are new rules Electing them in office treating us like fools Blockin' out the voters from speakin' their mind
ReplyDeleteDo this, don't do that, can't you see the sign?
You've got to have a number in order to speak
You can't watch, and no you can't have a seat
You ain't even are supposed to be around here
The rule said you got to be a member my dear