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same view: Keep what we have got. Don't let this kind

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of change take place, because it does amount to fiscal

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irresponsibility.

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We have listened to the Legislative Branch

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Committee, and others here, and I have agreed with much

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of what they have said that the Eagleton Committee report

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is one of the things that blazes the way for a new deal,

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a new day for our General Assembly, and the Eagleton

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Report says likewise: Keep what you have got. Do not

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change it. And they add further to what they say: they have

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not come across legislators who believe it should be

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changed.

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Fifteen years ago we had a study made in Maryland

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by the Sobeloff Commission. They made a study in depth,

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and they too replied: Keep the system that we have.

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It has worked well.

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Now, there hasn't been any debate on this

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unusual change in our whole system except the debate

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that was unexpectedly sprung on us at the time we were

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considering this at the last time. There hasn't been

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another word added to it since that is new other than