We debated policy on the House floor, overriding the Governor’s vetoes of two bills.

However, when it came to my legislation today, it wasn’t substance.

I got the signatures of all of the Baltimore City Senators on a letter supporting my local bill to provide employment incentives for fathers so that they would make their child support payments.

Before we gave the letter to the Senate committee, did we Xerox a copy for our file?

My staff thought of that before I did.

Who should conduct the study of my lead poisoning prevention bills?  Is it a conflict of interest for the judiciary to do so if it would enforce the end result, if enacted?

Questions raised but not yet answered.

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On a far loftier note, work is underway to preserve Jesus’ tomb at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, reports today’s New York Times.   

“One of the serious issues in the church is that the status quo takes place over every other consideration, and it’s not a good thing,” said Athanasius Macora, a Franciscan friar. “Unity is more important than a turf war.”

Fr. Athanasius was my tour guide at the church last December, courtesy of Bishop Denis Madden, an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/world/middleeast/jerusalem-christians-jesus-tomb.html?_r=0