Tenure

First elected to the Senate in 2014. Member of the Senate since 2015.

Current Assignments

2019 Budget and Taxation Committee

2023 Pensions Subcommittee of the Budget and Taxation Subcommittee

2021 Public Safety, Transportation, and Environment Subcommittee of the Budget and Taxation Committee

2023 Legislative Policy Committee

2021 Spending Affordability Committee

2023 Joint Committee on Gaming Oversight

2019 Joint Committee on Protocol

2019 Joint Committee on Ending Homelessness

2024 Senate Vice Chair, Maryland Veterans Caucus (Member 2015)

2024 Maryland Legislative Jewish Caucus, Associate Member

Past Senate Service

Public Safety, Transportation, and Environment Subcommittee, Budget and Taxation Committee, 2019; Health and Human Services Subcommittee of the Budget and Taxation Committee, 2020-2021; Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee, 2015-2018; Environment Subcommittee of the Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee, 2015-2018; Joint Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, 2019-2020; Special Joint Legislative Committee to Select the State Treasurer, 2023.

Past House Service

Joint Committee on Fair Practices and State Personnel Oversight, 2015-2017.

Public Service

Advisory Council on Hereditary and Congenital Disorders, 2023-; Workgroup on Adaptive Reuse of Vacant Commercial Space, 2021-2022; Two-Generation Family Economic Security Commission, 2017-2018; "Reform on Tap" Task Force, 2017.

Memberships

Waterman's Caucus, 2018-; Maryland Military Installation Caucus, 2017-; United Steelworkers of America; Native American LifeLines; Moose Lodge, #1228, Dundalk.

Biographical Information

Born, Baltimore, Maryland, 1961; Sparrows Point High School, 1979; United States Army, Combat Engineer, 1979-1981; Steelworker, LaFarge of North America; Five children, two grandchildren.