Ferguson picks Griffith and Feldman to head two newly-reconstituted Senate panels; reshuffles committee rosters

Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) unveiled his long-awaited restructuring plan for the upper chamber late Wednesday afternoon, shifting the missions of two standing committees and selecting respected leaders to head them. Ferguson said the Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee, with one of the broadest portfolios in the General Assembly, is being restructured “to tackle the state’s most contemporary and pressing challenges” and will be renamed the Senate Committee on Education, Energy, and the Environment (EEE).