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Issue Position: Issues

Issue Position

Issues: Senior Citizens Transportation Unemployed and Low-Income Business and Consumers Entitlements and the Safety Net Taxes Budget, Spending and Taxes Guns Health Insurance Higher Education Infrastructure Education Environment

Jim's priorities are improving our community for working and retired families. In the Maryland Senate, he has strongly supported:

* President Obama's and Governor O'Malley's efforts to create jobs, protect senior citizens and expand health insurance for working families;

* Closing tax loopholes for big business;

* Investing in our local schools;

* Getting tough on polluters of the Chesapeake Bay;

* Fighting electric rate rate hikes;

* Improving mass transit on Metro and MARC rail lines, as well as local bus service;

* Limiting tuition increases at the University of Maryland; Keeping the TRIM cap on local property taxes;

* Banning assault weapons;

* Cracking down on Medicaid fraud;

* Balancing the state budget every year;

* Expanding solar, wind, and other renewable energy.


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