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you know, we now have southern Maryland, southern Anne Arundel

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County with Calvert and St. Mary's tied across the

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Chesapeake Bay with the counties of the eastern shore.

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If you get into that, and that language is

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construed that you can't have the intervening water area in

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the congressional district, then that would mean -that

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we would have to start at the tip southern end of the

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eastern shore, and work northward there. We would get a

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complete revision in the next revamping, and it would upset

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our state again.

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All of these redistrictings for new congressmen

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and new areas and bringing in new people creates a lot

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of trouble, and I think the more flexibility we can give

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to the legislature in this tremendous job, the better off

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we will be, and therefore I think that the language that

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I have asked to go out from line 13, after "-sentatives"

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on down including the word "subdivisions" in line 21, will

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lave this section where the legislature must set up

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Congressional districts, and then if we leave in part of

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the last sentence, to read "the boundaries of congressional

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districts shall be established immediately prior to the