The Maryland Chamber of Commerce, for instance, spent $713,000 — the second-most out of nearly 1,400 organizations — in a proactive effort to increase its team of lobbyists and public ...

How Maryland lobbyists influenced debate on taxes, alcohol in grocery stores, other business interests. ... Senate President Bill Ferguson soon dampened those expectations, ...

Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has advised that some key money-saving policies couldn’t be included in Trump’s massive tax and domestic policy bill.