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as important as what is accomplished on the floor?
DELEGATE JAMES: I would say you are absolutely
correct, but this would not help that situation one bit --
the procedure of holding a bill in the committee .-
However, in defense of the lecrislative procedure
I can say this to you, that the general Assembly in Mary-
land is not like Congress in that it is very easy to get
a bill out of committee for a vote on the floor, even
though there is an unfavorable report.
The Congressional policy sets up all sorts of
roadblocks to having a bill come out of the committee in
the face of unfavorable committee action. It may even
do so in the face of an unfavorable attitude of a committee
chairman.
In the General Assembly of Maryland in both
houses it is very easy to get a bill on the floor, even
in the face of unfavorable committee action.
THE CHAIPMAN: Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Is it not equally true that
the members of the General Assembly have been known not
only to see to it, when they were ill-disposed toward a