Senior Citizens In Charge At The State House

Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. took the oath of office as president of the Maryland Senate for the 28th time Wednesday. “I love this position, I love this Senate,” he told the chamber.

He has sometimes referred to himself as “the poster boy” for term limits. Only one senator, Sen. Norman Stone, has served longer in the Senate than Miller, now 71. The other 45 senators have known no other president than Miller, the longest serving presiding legislative officer in the 50 states and the longest serving in Maryland by two decades.

Miller was reelected 43-1, with only Republican Bryan Simonaire in the negative. Democratic Sen. Jim Brochin of Baltimore County, sometimes the subject of Miller’s wrath, abstained.
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