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Press Release:
Maryland's
State Legislators Shift in Favor of Environment
Baltimore City Social Services
Building: Named
in honor of the Honorable Talmadge Branch
Lawmakers you'll hear about in the 2007 legislative
session…
Baltimore Business Journal - January 12, 2007
by Stephanie
Wentworth
In
the upcoming session, Branch, 51, sees funding
for education, improving child welfare and maintaining
affordable utilities as his main priority. He
chaired a work group looking at ways to make the
state more accountable for child welfare and intends
to continue reforming the state's foster care
system this year.
With a body of 141 delegates,
the majority leader and Speaker of the House depend
on the majority whip to rally support for the
issues they are supporting. The whip is also responsible
for keeping track of how many delegates plan to
vote for a bill.
Branch is one of few Baltimore
City representatives with a high profile role
in the House of Delegates. He has to relate well
with other delegates to bolstering support for
the bills his party backs. To improve efficiency,
Branch changed the majority whip position slightly
by reducing the number of deputy whips from 18
to 12. The number of female deputies will increase
from two to five this year, he said.
Branch's experience in government
and infectious personality made him the perfect
choice to replace Lieutenant Gov.-elect Anthony
Brown, said House Speaker Michael E. Busch.
"He understands what motivates
people," Busch said.
The Baltimore City Democrat became
a delegate 12 years ago after serving as a special
assistant to U.S. Representative Parren J. Mitchell
and Baltimore City Mayor Martin O'Malley's representative
to the Cecil Kirk neighborhood in East Baltimore.
He was the vice chair of the Appropriations Committee
for the last three years. He has worked on special
committees dedicated to health and human resources,
welfare reform and transportation…”
http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2007/01/15/story9.html
O'Malley
installing StateStat:
Statistics-based management
is coming to Md. Government
By
Justin Fenton | Sun reporter February 12, 2007
Maryland
legislators have asked during recent hearings
whether CitiStat can
be stretched to
accommodate
new demands on a statewide level. Del. Talmadge
Branch, the majority whip from Baltimore observed
that CitiStat was very
much oriented toward the delivery of services.
And it has hardly been a cure-all for some of
the more intractable problems facing Baltimore
-- the city's homicide rate remains among the
highest in the country, and its schools continue
to struggle…” (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.statestat12feb12,0,7043606.story?coll=sns-ap-business-headlines)
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