Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Md. Senate Executive Nominations Committee will stop streaming voting #NoTransparency #SecretSociety #DemocracyFail

...Such discussions and debates and votes have been streamed on an irregular basis over the last couple of years.
Sen. William C. “Bill” Ferguson IV, D-Baltimore and chair of the Senate Executive Nominations Committee, called the streaming of the discussion and vote “a mistake” and said he plans to make sure live streaming is cut off after the last nominee is interviewed....
...Voting sessions in other committees are also typically not streamed live even though that is where the majority of legislation is hammered out before being sent on for votes before the full House and Senate. Senate rules, however, do allow for those sessions to be streamed live at the discretion of the committee chairs...

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