Friday, February 17, 2012
Eight of Maryland's 10 congressional representatives rejected the payroll tax cut, saying that the legislation's cuts to federal employees' pension programs were unfair.
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Friday, February 17, 2012
By Mark Miller, Capital News Service Eight of the 10 members of Maryland's congressional delegation voted Friday to reject a bipartisan compromise on extending the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits, with leading Democratic members criticizing the legislation's cuts to federal employees' pension programs. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Kensington) and Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Maryland) were members of the House-Senate conference committee that produced the agreement. Both supported the compromise language in committee, but both voted against it on the floor of their respective chambers. "While this conference report does many good things, it's time to send a message to stop scapegoating our federal employees," Van Hollen said on the House floor…
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
With the supercommittee failing to come up with a plan to cut the deficit, Maryland could face as much as $150 million in cuts to its 2014 budget.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
By Jeffrey Benzing, Capital News Service The congressional supercommittee has failed, and now Maryland could face as much as $150 million in cuts to its 2014 budget, including millions in lost funding through federal education and health care programs, state experts say. And that's not all. Maryland's defense and federal work force could be in jeopardy through mandated cuts to defense and other federal programs. "Defense spending—that means jobs in Maryland," said Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Cockeysville, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee. "It would clearly be very hurtful to our economy." The supercommittee, officially known as the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, was charged with cutting more than $1.2 trillion …
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Van Hollen, who has indicated that he will work to protect the interests of federal workers who live in Maryland's 8th District, is named to 'Super Committee.'
It looks like they'll be getting ready to measure Rep. Christopher Van Hollen, D-MD, for that Superman Cape any day now. Van Hollen, the 8th-District congressman and ranking minority member of the House Budget Committee, was selected Thursday by minority leader Nancy Pelosi as one of the three House Democrats to serve on the so-called 'Super Committee'—the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, a panel that will be seeking to find a compromise agreement on the debt and deficit mess before the end of this year. It's a prestigious assignment for Van Hollen, but not really a big surprise, given his close connections with Pelosi and his position on the House budget panel. The other Democrats named were Rep. James Clyburn, D-SC, and …
David A Post
10:32 am on Friday, February 24, 2012
Gee State of Maryland employees currently have to give 7% of their salaries to their pension plan.....and 2% of that goes into the "General Fund of Maryland" more ›