USA: Maryland Senators Switch Committee Places to Pass Offshore Wind Bill

Maryland’s Senator C. Anthony Muse from the Senate Finance Committee, who has opposed Governor Martin O’Malley’s plans for the development of offshore wind energy off Ocean City, will switch places with Senator Victor R. Ramirez from the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, The Gazette informs.

This move, taken by the Senate leadership, should help the offshore wind bill pass through the committee to the Senate. Senator Ramirez said that he would keep an open mind on the wind power matter.

“It’s an important bill, but we have a lot of other pieces of legislation that we need to address as well,” The Gazette quoted Senator Ramirez as saying.

Yet, Senator Muse does not consider the swapping to be a good way of dealing with such issues. “If they can just start switching people around anytime they want the votes, [then] we’re all useless there,” he explained.

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Offshore WIND Staff, January 4, 2013