Posted by Phil Lee (216.250.238.103) on August 23, 2001 at 17:59:
Senator considers Indian panel bill
Matthew Cella, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 8/23/2001, C1
The sponsor of a bill that would have given the Maryland Commission on Indian Affairs the legal authority to boycott a Montgomery County Little League group said she will consider reintroducing the measure in the next legislative session.
State Sen. Joan Carter Conway presented a bill in February that would have enabled the Indian-advocacy agency to make decisions independently of the Department of Housing and Community Development, which oversees the governor-appointed commission.
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Of the bill's seven co-sponsors -- all Democrats -- only Sens. Leonard Teitelbaum and Nathaniel Exum would discuss the issue.
Mr. Exum, who represents Prince George's County, was still strongly behind the commission. "I would support it again," he said.