The hearing on my bill to create a task force to study phased retirement for state employees was going very well.

The group would study how employees could work part time and tutor their successors at the same time.

Representatives of management (the Department of Budget and Management) and labor (AFSCME) sat next to me at the witness table.  Both were supporting the bill.

We testified that we had already shown the relevant subcommittee chair language that would accomplish our goal with committee narrative attached to the budget bill.  My bill would not pass but we would still achieve my objective.

“But then Delegate Rosenberg would not get credit,” stated one member of the committee, “unless we called it the Rosenberg Retirement Task Force.”

“That could be interpreted the wrong way by some people,” I responded.

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I didn’t go to the Ravens parade.

I’m waiting for next October.