Priorities

    • Supporting the success of our children in public schools by securing funds to help with learning loss and other pandemic learning impediments and passed legislation to provided dedicated funding towards school construction.

    • Safeguarding the future of Maryland’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities, passed historic funding legislation.

    • Continuing to protect families and small businesses affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Passed legislation including tax relief and stimulus for families and businesses, and reformed unemployment insurance.

    • Supporting paid family leave for workers.

    • Support Expansion of Collective Bargaining Rights.

    • Being an effective voice and advocate for seniors and retirees against crime and predatory businesses that target them.

    • Protecting a woman’s reproductive rights and right to choose to include broader access and affordability to abortion care; and preventing the prosecution of those who seek, help others to obtain, and provide abortion care.

    • Addressing health care conditions that stem from systemic medical and social inequalities.

    • Advocating for legislation to provide affordable access to energy and clean energy.

    • Preventing disfranchisement of voting rights, including voting access for eligible incarcerated individuals.

    • Fortifying the future success of our incarcerated women, passed legislation to fund and create a women’s pre-release center.

    • Continuing to keep our communities safe, passed legislation to increase the penalties for drunk and drugged driving.

    • Ensuring police reform and accountability legislation; passed legislation to overhaul the police disciplinary process, provide for public access to police discipline records, implicit bias testing and training, universal body camera usage and limits on use of force.

    • Leading juvenile justice reform to include the elimination of the “Felony Murder” statute and penalty as applies to juveniles.

    • Providing equity in the prosecution of sexual assault crimes, by sponsoring the elimination of the “Spousal Defense”.