By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun
2:20 p.m. EDT, March 23, 2012
The House of Delegates gave its approval to Gov.Martin O’Malley’s proposed state budget last year, along with its version of his decision to shift part of the responsibility for teacher pension costs to county governments, an increase in income taxes and a mandate that counties keep up a minimum level of spending on education.
The vote on the budget was 95-43. The tally was mostly along party lines, with Baltimore County Democrats Michael H. Weir Jr. and Joseph J. “Sonny” Minnick voting against and Garrett County Republican Wendell Beitzel voting for it.
The budget reconcililiation act, which included the pension shift, passed 88-50 as a handful of liberal Democrats joined Republicans in opposing the measure.
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