Sen. Edwards Prepares For His Farewell: ‘I Never Thought I’d Be Doing This This Long’

A couple of weeks ago, state Sen. George C. Edwards (R-Garrett) appeared virtually in the House Health and Government Operations Committee to present one of his bills. Del. Samuel I. Rosenberg (D-Baltimore City), who entered the General Assembly at the same time as Edwards, in 1983, asked the senator if he remembered the first bill he introduced. “I said, ‘Sandy, I can’t remember what I did last weekend, let alone 40 years ago,’” Edwards recalled replying. A few days later, Rosenberg testified on a bill before the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee, where Edwards serves, so Edwards thought he’d asked his former House colleague the same question. Rosenberg described his first bill in great detail.