INTERVIEW – MARYLAND DELEGATE NIC KIPKE – Maryland Minority Leader of the House of Delegates, Maryland Delegate of District 31

Md. lawmakers to grapple with budget, sick leave, fracking. (AP) — A budget shortfall will be a top concern for Maryland lawmakers during their annual 90-day legislative session. Lawmakers also will be weighing proposals to require paid sick leave and to either ban or extend a moratorium on the hydraulic oil and gas drilling process known as fracking.

Re-districting. They will introduce new legislation with regards to redistricting, and hopefully the Assembly will pass it.

The budget. It isn’t going to grow as much as democrats want because last year they increased spending

The Second Amendment. They have made small movements toward the right to bear arms,. but they will keep pushing for it.