MARYLAND’S LEGISLATIVE SESSION IS OVER, BUT HOGAN HAS MORE WORK AHEAD

ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Legislature may have just concluded, but tough decisions are still on the agenda for Gov. Larry Hogan as he chooses which bills to sign, and whether he will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on education, state employee raises and Medicaid — monies set aside by the General Assembly that he must approve.

He spoke to Capital News Service Wednesday about his first legislative session, as a Republican governor elected in a majority blue state working with a Democratic General Assembly.

Hogan ran on a campaign to clean up the state government, he said, by reducing spending and eliminating Maryland’s $700 million structural budget deficit.

He wanted to cut taxes, and help charter schools. He wanted to do everything he said his predecessor, Democrat Martin O’Malley, could not, or would not, do to ensure a responsible fiscal future for the state.

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