2016 RATINGS of MARYLAND

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1 RATINGS of MARYLAND #ACURatings Conservative.org TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter from the Chairman 2 MD Senate Vote Descriptions 5 ACU & ACUF Board Members 3 MD Senate Scores 7 Selecting the 3 MD House Vote Descriptions 9 Winners & Losers 4 MD House Scores 11

2 AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION S Ratings of Maryland LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN Dear Fellow Conservatives, We are pleased to present the American Conservative Union Foundation s ratings for the meeting of the Maryland General Assembly. Like our Congressional Ratings, our State Ratings reflect how elected officials view the role of government in an individual's life. The Maryland legislators with the highest scores voted most consistently with the ideals articulated in the U.S. Constitution: limited and transparent government, individual rights, personal responsibility, and lasting cultural values. In 2015, ACU Foundation was proud to make history by being the first organization to rate every single state legislature across the full spectrum of issues, helping each voter understand how his or her state ranks among the rest. Ultimately, we are trying to help people understand what conservatism is and how it improves the lives of everyday Americans. Conservatism is the political philosophy that sovereignty resides in the person. We think that understanding this idea is essential if Americans are to successfully govern themselves again. Working with our policy centers and fellows, the ACU Foundation engages in deep policy analysis to help create our annual state scorecards. We have enhanced the vote descriptions this year to show this effort more clearly. By examining all 50 of our State Ratings, we can see which states have most effectively promoted conservative solutions and which have struggled. Our ratings also help identify legislators who have courageously fought against liberal majorities. We hope that this guide helps you learn how well, or poorly, your legislators work to preserve the values we share. Sincerely, Matt Schlapp Chairman American Conservative Union 2

3 AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION S Ratings of Maryland ACU BOARD MEMBERS Matt Schlapp Chairman Charlie Gerow First Vice Chairman Carolyn D. Meadows Second Vice Chairman Bob Beauprez Treasuer Amy Frederick Secretary Thomas Winter Executive Committee Member Larry Beasley Kimberly Bellissimo Morton C. Blackwell John Bolton Jose Cardenas Ron Christie Muriel Coleman Kellyanne Conway Tom DeLay Becky Norton Dunlop ACU FOUNDATION BOARD MEMBERS John Eddy Luis Fortuno Alan M. Gotleib Van D. Hipp, Jr. Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser James V. Lacy Michael R. Long Ed McFadden Grover G. Norquist Ron Robinson Mike Rose Ned Ryun Peter Samuelson Sabrina Schaeffer Fred L. Smith, Jr. Matt Smith Ed Yevoli SELECTING THE VOTES ACU researched and selected a range of bills before the Maryland General Assembly that determine a member s adherence to conservative principles. We selected bills that focus on Ronald Reagan s philosophy of the three-legged stool : 1) fiscal and economic: taxes, budgets, regulation, spending, healthcare, and property; 2) social and cultural: 2nd amendment, religion, life, welfare, and education; and 3) government integrity: voting, individual liberty, privacy, and transparency. This wide range of issues are designed to give citizens an accurate assessment that conveys which of Maryland s elected leaders best defend the principles of a free society: Life, Liberty and Property. Matt Schlapp Chairman Millie Hallow Vice Chairman Van D. Hipp, Jr. Treasurer Amy Frederick Secretary Kimberly Bellissimo Jose Cardenas Jonathan Garthwaite Charlie Gerow Colin Hanna Niger Innes Willes Lee Carolyn D. Meadows Randy Neugebauer Thomas Winter 1331 H Street NW, Suite 500 Washington, DC (202)

4 AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION S Ratings of Maryland WINNERS & LOSERS AWARD FOR CONSERVATIVE EXCELLENCE <= 10 COALITION OF THE RADICAL LEFT SENATE HOUSE HOUSE SENATE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE n/a ADAMS FISHER GRAMMER KITTLEMAN MALONE McDONOUGH McKAY METZGAR MILLER, W. SHOEMAKER Astle Currie Feldman Guzzone Kagan Angel Anderson Atterbeary Barkley Barnes, B. Hayes Haynes Healey Hettleman Hill Oaks Patterson Pendergrass Platt Proctor Kasemeyer Barnes, D. Hixson Queen King Barve Holmes Reznik AWARD FOR CONSERVATIVE ACHIEVEMENT Klausmeier Lee McFadden Beidle Branch Brooks Howard, C. Jackson Jalisi Robinson, B. Robinson, S. Rosenberg SENATE n/a HOUSE AFZALI ARENTZ BEITZEL BUCKEL CILIBERTI FOLDEN HOWARD, S. IMPALLARIA KREBS HOUSE LONG McCONKEY PARROTT REY ROSE SAAB WILSON, B. WIVELL Middleton Miller Nathan-Pulliam Peters Ramirez Zirkin Zucker Busch Chang Clippinger Conaway Cullison Davis Dumais Ebersole Fennell Fraser-Hidalgo Frush Jameson Jones Kaiser Kelly Knotts Korman Kramer Krimm Lafferty Lam Lierman Smith Sophocleus Stein Turner Valderrama Valentino-Smith Vallario Vaughn Waldstreicher Walker Washington, A. Gaines Luedtke Washington, M. Gilchrist McCray Wilson, C. Glenn McIntosh Young, K. Gutiérrez Miller, A. Young, P. Hammen Morhaim 4

5 AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION S Ratings of Maryland MARYLAND SENATE VOTE DESCRIPTIONS Railroad Mandates. This bill prohibits freight trains being operated in the state by a crew of less than 2 persons. It also prohibits localities from more stringent requirements than the state standard. ACU opposes these state labor mandates for interstate transportation that create different requirements for one multistate trip and opposed this bill. The Senate passed the bill on March 14, by a vote of Maryland Corps Program. This bill creates a new bureaucracy to administer the Maryland Corps Program that hands out $21,000 taxpayer-funded checks to those who spend nine months with a non-profit organization approved by the government. ACU opposes this wasteful spending vetoed by the Governor as duplicative of other programs and requires government approval for organizations that meet the social needs of the community, resulting in the worst forms of cronyism and opposed this bill. The Senate passed the bill on March 18, by a vote of Blighted Area Subsidies. This bill is one of numerous bills that creates new mandatory spending programs. It creates a new bureaucracy, the Seed Community Development Anchor Fund, to award a minimum of $5 million a year over four years. Such mandates thwart the will of the people and crowd out private investments. Research based on the ACU Foundation s Family Prosperity Index shows that a more robust private sector leads to greater per household personal income, increasing the prosperity of the family. ACU opposes these mandatory spending programs that are duplicative of other programs and lead to future tax increases and opposed this bill. The Senate passed the bill on March 26, by a vote of Mandatory Funding for Sustainable Community Projects. This bill is one of numerous bills that creates new mandatory spending programs. It requires the Governor to include funding in Fiscal Years 2018 and 2019 for the Strategic Demolition and Smart Growth Impact Fund. It will provide grants and loans to every area the government deems to be a sustainable community. ACU opposes these funding mandates because they thwart the will of the people and are fiscally irresponsible and opposed this bill. The Senate passed the bill on March 27, by a vote of Mandatory Funding for Baltimore Subsidy Programs. This bill is one of a number of bills that creates new mandatory spending programs. It requires the Governor to include funding for the Baltimore Regional Neighborhood Initiative every year from Fiscal year 2018 through The funds are to be given to community development organizations. ACU opposes these funding mandates because they result in the worst forms of cronyism and are fiscally irresponsible and opposed this bill. The Senate passed the bill on March 27, by a vote of Insurance Mandates. This bill prohibits insurance companies from raising rates or canceling coverage when a vehicle is operated by a volunteer driver, a driver who provides driving services to bring people to a charitable or non-profit organization. ACU opposes insurance mandates that drive up the cost of insurance for everyone and opposed this bill. The Senate passed the bill on March 28, by a vote of Mandatory Pre-Kindergarten Funding. This bill is one of numerous bills that creates new mandatory spending programs. It requires the Governor to include funding for pre-kindergarten programs in the budgets for Fiscal Years 2018 and 2019 in order to receive federal matching funds. ACU opposes these funding mandates because they thwart the will of the people and are fiscally irresponsible and opposed this bill. The Senate passed the bill on March 28, by a vote of Student Loan Bailout. This bill is a mandatory spending bill that requires up to $10 million per year is spent on a $5,000 bailout for students who have accumulated $20,000 or more in student loan debt and allows students who do not pay their loans to continue to attend college. ACU opposes bailouts that encourage fiscal irresponsibility and help drive up the cost of higher education and opposed this bill. The Senate passed the bill on March 28, by a vote of Wage Mandates. This bill creates a penalty of $250 per day per employee for businesses on government contracts that are found not to be following the prevailing wage law. ACU opposes these artificial wage laws that force contractors to pay a predetermined wage, usually the union rate, in order to participate in government projects. Participation in projects requiring the union rate drives up the cost of these projects for taxpayers. ACU opposed this bill. The Senate passed the bill on March 31, by a vote of Health Insurance Mandates. This bill prohibits insurance companies from requiring copays or coinsurance for prescription contraceptive drugs or devices, and requires coverage for a six month supply of prescription contraceptives. ACU opposes these insurance mandates that drive up the cost of health insurance for most consumers and opposed this bill. The Senate passed the bill on March 31, by a vote Equal Pay Law. This bill expands the state s equal pay for equal work law to define same establishment for pay comparisons to include any location in the same county with the same employer and increases the burden on the employer to prove there is no discrimination. ACU supports the constitutional principle that one is assumed innocent until proven guilty opposed this bill. The Senate passed the bill on April 1, by a vote of

6 AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION S Ratings of Maryland Transportation Funding Decisions. This bill strips the Governor s power to make decisions with regard to highway and transportation funding and skews the scoring mechanism to fund pet projects. ACU opposes cronyism and combining highway and mass transit funding in one bill that shortchanges needed road projects causing favoritism of urban areas over rural areas and opposed this bill. The Senate voted to override the Governor s veto of the bill on April 2, by a vote of (a three-fifths vote was required) Special Tax Break. This bill gives a special tax break worth $37.5 million over five years to companies with criteria that fits only one company in Maryland (Northrup-Grumman). ACU opposes tax breaks that benefit only one company in an industry and increases the tax burden on everyone else and opposed this bill. The Senate passed the bill on April 2, by a vote of Special Tax Exemption. This bill forces Baltimore County to exempt cranes located on government property from personal property taxes, criteria that affects only one company (Ports America Chesapeake). ACU opposes this special exemption from taxes which will increase the general tax burden on everyone else and opposed this bill. The Senate passed the bill on April 4, by a vote of Civil Asset Forfeiture. This bill makes some reforms to Maryland s forfeiture law including a requirement that there be clear and convincing evidence of a crime before property is seized and that a receipt be given for seized property. ACU Foundation s Center for 21st Century Property Rights engages heavily on this issue and supports stronger reforms in civil asset forfeiture laws; but ACU supported this bill as a step in the right direction. The Senate passed the bill on April 7, by a vote of Energy Mandate. This bill creates a new onerous greenhouse gas emissions mandate. ACU opposes these mandates that drive up the cost of energy for everyone while doing little to affect the climate and opposed this bill. The Senate passed the bill on April 3, by a vote of

7 AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION S Ratings of Maryland MARYLAND SENATE SCORES MARYLAND SENATE STATISTICS OVERALL AVERAGE 26 REPUBLICAN AVERAGE 64 LOWEST REPUBLICAN BATES 53 DEMOCRAT AVERAGE 10 HIGHEST DEMOCRAT BROCHIN SPARKS MARYLAND SENATE VOTE DETAIL Party District ACU Astle D BATES R E Benson D Brochin D CASSILLY R Conway D Currie D X DeGrange D ECKARDT R EDWARDS R Feldman D Ferguson D Gladden D 41 E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E 0 0 n/a Guzzone D HERSHEY R HOUGH R JENNINGS R Kagan D Kasemeyer D Cast 2015 LIFETIME AVG 7

8 AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION S Ratings of Maryland MARYLAND SENATE VOTE DETAIL Party District ACU Kelley D King D Klausmeier D Lee D Madaleno D Manno D Mathias D McFadden D 45 - X X X Middleton D X Miller D Muse D X Nathan-Pulliam D NORMAN R Peters D Pinsky D Pugh D E E E X Ramirez D Raskin D READY R REILLY R Rosapepe D SALLING R SERAFINI R SIMONAIRE R E WAUGH R Young D Zirkin D Zucker D Legislator did not vote on enough of the selected bills and as a result the percentage was not rated. Cast 2015 LIFETIME AVG 8

9 AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION S Ratings of Maryland MARYLAND HOUSE VOTE DESCRIPTIONS Mandatory Funding for Sustainable Community Projects. This bill is one of numerous bills that creates new mandatory spending programs. It requires the Governor to include funding in Fiscal Years 2018 and 2019 for the Strategic Demolition and Smart Growth Impact Fund. It will provide grants and loans to every area the government deems to be a sustainable community. ACU opposes these funding mandates because they thwart the will of the people and are fiscally irresponsible and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on February 23, by a vote of Insurance Mandates. This bill prohibits insurance companies from raising rates or canceling coverage when a vehicle is operated by a volunteer driver, a driver who provides driving services to bring people to a charitable or non-profit organization. ACU opposes insurance mandates that drive up the cost of insurance for everyone and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on February 26, by a vote of Szeliga Amendment Fiscal Responsibility. The Szeliga amendment requires the county to meet all commitments to fund a new teaching hospital in Prince Georges County before the state makes additional expenditures under the bill. ACU supports this kind of fiscal responsibility and supported this amendment. The House defeated the amendment on March 9, by a vote of Seat Belt Laws. This bill makes the failure to wear a seat belt in the rear passenger seat of a vehicle a primary offense. ACU opposes these nanny state laws that make drivers responsible for passengers and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on March 11, by a vote of Government Competition with Private Enterprise. This bill creates a new program, the Senior Call Check Program, to compete with private companies. The program offers a service to call senior citizens living alone and notify relatives or friends if they do not answer. Research based on the ACU Foundation s Family Prosperity Index shows that when entrepreneurship is suppressed, the resulting decline in economic growth leads to a reduction in family prosperity. ACU opposes government competing for services that can easily be handled by private enterprise and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on March 11, by a vote of Gun Control. This bill prohibits a person from carrying or possessing a firearm on the property of a public institution of higher education. ACU supports the founders belief in the Second Amendment and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on March 12, by a vote of Driving Penalties. This bill nearly triples the fine to $500 for talking on a cellphone while driving and makes the act a misdemeanor offense. ACU Foundation s Center for Criminal Justice Reform engages heavily on these issues; therefore, ACU opposes over-criminalization and penalties that are not related to safety violations - such as running a red light - and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on March 13, by a vote of Wage Mandates. This bill creates a penalty of $250 per day per employee for businesses on government contracts that are found not to be following the prevailing wage law. ACU opposes these artificial wage laws that force contractors to pay a predetermined wage, usually the union rate, in order to participate in government projects. Participation in projects requiring the union rate drives up the cost of these projects for taxpayers. ACU opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on March 13, by a vote of Vehicle Insurance Mandate. This bill prohibits insurance companies from considering driving records when raising rates or canceling insurance. ACU opposes this absurd mandate that negates the premise of insurance (risk) while driving up the cost of insurance for all other consumers, as has happened with health insurance under Obamacare, and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on March 13, by a vote of Non-Compete Agreements. This bill prohibits employers from including non-compete or conflict of interest provisions in an employment contract for those employees who earn $15 an hour or less. ACU opposes this interference with the free market that hampers the right of employees to negotiate their own contract and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on March 13, by a vote of Health Insurance Mandates. This bill prohibits insurance companies from requiring copays or coinsurance for prescription contraceptive drugs or devices, and requires coverage for a six month supply of prescription contraceptives. ACU opposes insurance mandates that drive up the cost of health insurance for most consumers and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on March 14, by a vote of Energy Mandate. This bill creates a new onerous greenhouse gas emissions mandate. ACU opposes these mandates that drive up the cost of energy for everyone while doing little to affect the climate and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on March 15, by a vote of Powdered Alcohol. This bill extends the prohibition on the sale of powdered alcohol for another two years. ACU opposes bans on safe products, opposes bills that are primarily designed to reduce competition, and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on March 16, by a vote of

10 AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION S Ratings of Maryland Mandatory Pre-Kindergarten Funding. This bill is one of numerous bills that creates new mandatory spending programs. It requires the Governor to include funding for pre-kindergarten programs in the budgets for Fiscal Years 2018 and 2019 in order to receive federal matching funds. ACU opposes these funding mandates because they thwart the will of the people and are fiscally irresponsible and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on March 17, by a vote of Mandatory Funding for Baltimore Subsidy Programs. This bill is one of a number of bills that creates new mandatory spending programs. It requires the Governor to include funding for the Baltimore Regional Neighborhood Initiative every year from Fiscal year 2018 through The funds are to be given to community development organizations. ACU opposes these funding mandates because they result in the worst forms of cronyism and are fiscally irresponsible and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on March 26, by a vote of Blighted Area Subsidies. This bill is one of numerous bills that creates new mandatory spending programs. It creates a new bureaucracy, the Seed Community Development Anchor Fund, to award a minimum of $5 million a year over four years. Such mandates thwart the will of the people and crowd out private investments. Research based on the ACU Foundation s Family Prosperity Index shows that a more robust private sector leads to greater per household personal income, increasing the prosperity of the family. ACU opposes these mandatory spending programs that are duplicative of other programs and lead to future tax increases and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on March 26, by a vote of Maryland Corps Program. This bill creates a new bureaucracy to administer the Maryland Corps Program that hands out $21,000 taxpayer-funded checks to those who spend nine months with a non-profit organization approved by the government. ACU opposes this wasteful spending vetoed by the Governor as duplicative of other programs and requires government approval for organizations that meet the social needs of the community, resulting in the worst forms of cronyism and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on March 27, by a vote of Paid Sick Leave Mandate. This bill requires businesses with more than 14 employees to give their employees 1 hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours of work. ACU opposes labor mandates that interfere with the right of employees to negotiate their own compensation and drives up the cost of doing business and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on March 29, by a vote of Student Loan Bailout. This bill is another mandatory spending bill that requires up to $10 million per year is spent on a $5,000 bailout for students who have accumulated $20,000 or more in student loan debt and allows students who do not pay their loans to continue to attend college. ACU opposes bailouts that encourage fiscal irresponsibility and drive up the cost of higher education for everyone and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on March 30, by a vote of Transportation Funding Decisions. This bill strips the Governor s power to make decisions with regard to highway and transportation funding and skews the scoring mechanism to fund pet projects. ACU opposes cronyism and combining highway and mass transit funding in one bill that shortchanges needed road projects causing favoritism of urban areas over rural areas and opposed this bill. The House voted to override the Governor s veto of the bill on March 31, by a vote of (a three-fifths vote was required) Civil Service Rules. This bill allows a court to nullify a final decision in a government employee discipline or termination case if the judge finds that the case is prejudiced because there was not a clear explanation of the reasons for the action. ACU opposes these vague laws that encourage litigation after the lengthy appeals process given to government employees and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on April 2, by a vote of Equal Pay Law. This bill expands the state s equal pay for equal work law to define same establishment for pay comparisons to include any location in the same county with the same employer and increases the burden on the employer to prove there is no discrimination. ACU supports the constitutional principle that one is assumed innocent until proven guilty and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on April 3, by a vote of Special Tax Exemption. This bill forces Baltimore County to exempt cranes located on government property from personal property taxes, criteria that affects only one company (Ports America Chesapeake). ACU opposes this special exemption from taxes which will increase the general tax burden on everyone else and opposed this bill. The bill passed the House on April 5, by a vote of Special Tax Break. This bill gives a special tax break worth $37.5 million over five years to companies with criteria that fits only one company in Maryland (Northrup-Grumman). ACU opposes tax breaks that benefit only one company in an industry and increases the general tax burden on everyone else and opposed this bill. The House passed the bill on April 7, by a vote of Civil Asset Forfeiture. This bill makes some reforms to Maryland s forfeiture law including a requirement that there be clear and convincing evidence of a crime before property is seized and that a receipt be given for seized property. ACU Foundation s Center for 21st Century Property Rights engages heavily on this issue and supports stronger reforms in civil asset forfeiture laws; but ACU supported this bill as a step in the right direction. The House passed the bill on April 9, by a vote of

11 AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION S Ratings of Maryland MARYLAND HOUSE SCORES MARYLAND HOUSE STATISTICS OVERALL AVERAGE 33 REPUBLICAN AVERAGE 77 LOWEST REPUBLICAN SIMONAIRE 43 DEMOCRAT AVERAGE 8 HIGHEST DEMOCRAT SAMPLE-HUGHES 24 MARYLAND HOUSE VOTE DETAIL Party District ADAMS R 37B AFZALI R Anderson D X ANDERTON R 38B X Angel D 25 - E X E X ARENTZ R Atterbeary D AUMANN R 42B n/a 75 Barkley D Barnes, B. D Barnes, D. D Barron D Barve D E Beidle D BEITZEL R 1A Branch D E E Bromwell D E Brooks D BUCKEL R 1B - X Busch D 30A ACU Cast 2015 LIFETIME AVG 11

12 AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION S Ratings of Maryland MARYLAND HOUSE VOTE DETAIL Party District Carey D 31A CAROZZA R 38C Carr D E Carter D 41 E - E E E E E E E E E E E - E E E E n/a CASSILLY R 35B Chang D CILIBERTI R Clippinger D CLUSTER R Conaway D X Cullison D Davis D E Dumais D X Ebersole D X Fennell D 47A E FISHER R 27C FLANAGAN R 9B FOLDEN R 3B Fraser-Hidalgo D Frick D Frush D Gaines D GHRIST R Gilchrist D GLASS R 34A Glenn D GRAMMER R Gutiérrez D E E E Hammen D Hayes D E X Haynes D 44A Healey D X X Hettleman D Hill D Hixson D E E E X X Holmes D 23B ACU Cast 2015 LIFETIME AVG 12

13 AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION S Ratings of Maryland MARYLAND HOUSE VOTE DETAIL Party District HORNBERGER R 35A Howard, C. D E E E HOWARD, S. R 30B IMPALLARIA R Jackson D 27B JACOBS R Jalisi D Jameson D Jones D X Kaiser D Kelly D KIPKE R 31B KITTLEMAN R 9A Knotts D Korman D Kramer D KREBS R E Krimm D 3A Lafferty D 42A Lam D 12 - X Lierman D Lisanti D 34A LONG R Luedtke D E MALONE R MAUTZ R 37B McCOMAS R 34B McCONKEY R McCray D X McDONOUGH R E McIntosh D X X McKAY R 1C - E X McMILLAN R 30A E METZGAR R MIELE R Miller, A. D X MILLER, W. R 9A ACU Cast 2015 LIFETIME AVG 13

14 AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION S Ratings of Maryland MARYLAND HOUSE VOTE DETAIL 14 Party District Moon D X X Morales D E MORGAN R 29A Morhaim D 11 - E E Oaks D O'DONNELL R 29C E OTTO R 38A PARROTT R 2A Patterson D Peña-Melnyk D X E E E E Pendergrass D Platt D Proctor D E X - - E E n/a 10 Queen D 14 X X n/a 9 REILLY R 35B REY R 29B Reznik D Robinson, B. D 40 - X Robinson, S. D ROSE R Rosenberg D E SAAB R Sample-Hughes D 37A Sanchez D 47B n/a 12 SHOEMAKER R E SIMONAIRE R 31B E E Smith D Sophocleus D Stein D E Sydnor D 44B SZELIGA R E Tarlau D 47A - X Turner D E E E Valderrama D X Valentino-Smith D 23A - - E X Vallario D 23B Vaughn D E E E E ACU Cast 2015 LIFETIME AVG

15 AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION S Ratings of Maryland MARYLAND HOUSE VOTE DETAIL Party District VOGT R Waldstreicher D Walker D X E E E Washington, A. D 22 - E Washington, M. D 43 - X WEST R 42B X WILSON, B. R 2B Wilson, C. D X WIVELL R 2A Young, K. D 3A Young, P. D 44B Legislator did not vote on enough of the selected bills and as a result the percentage was not rated ACU Cast 2015 LIFETIME AVG 15