Reflections on the Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks // Are American Civil Liberties & Pentagon Budget Restraint Toast?

PLUS: Maryland politicians fundraising on 9/11

UPDATE: The ACLU of Maryland warns that tomorrow Congress is scheduled to vote on an extension of police powers allowing the government to wiretap American's communications without a search warrant. Use the ACLU's online action tool to send an email to your members of Congress today.

ANOTHER DAY OF 9/11 REMEMBRANCE: Today marks another anniversary of the tragic 9/11/01 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Indeed, I nearly forgot about this new American milestone, until I woke up and started reading the news coverage and alerts streaming through my email inbox. Of course, most news outlets are running the ordinary tributes and commentary on the event itself, and the victims deserve their moment of remembrance. It is, after all, tough to forget the jarring emotional period in American civic life that many of us lived through. It is harder still to forget the tragic imagery from that day and how it continues to impact the American policy mindset (both positively and negatively)....

ROLL CALL: Maryland House Committee Votes on Marriage Equality // SEE HOW THEY VOTED

WBAL has the information we've all been looking for. See the roll call votes for the marriage equality legislation.

Roll Call of House Judiciary Committee on Same Sex Marriage

Voting Yes (10 Delegates All Democrats): Kathleen Dumais; Susan Lee; Jeff Waldstreicher; Luke Clippinger; Jill Carter; Keiffer Mitchell; Kris Valderamma; Frank Conaway; Curt Anderson; Luiz Simmons

Voting No (11 Delegates): Joe Vallario (D); Kevin Kelly (D); Tiffany Alston (D); Geraldine Valentino-Smith (D); Don Dwyer (R); Susan McComas (R); Neil Parrott (R); Michael Smigel (R); Michael Hough (R); Joe Cluster R); Mike McDermott (R)

Abstained (1 Delegate): Sam Arora (D)

Roll Call of House Health and Government Operations on Same Sex Marriage

Voting Yes (15 Delegates): Peter Hammen (D); Shane Pendergrass (D); Eric Bromwell (D); Robert Costa (R); Bonnie Cullison (D); James Hubbard (D); Ariana Kelly (D); Dan Morhaim (D); Peter Murphy (D); Shirley Nathan-Pulliam (D); Nathaniel Oakes(D); Joseline Pena-Melnyk (D); Kirill Reznik (D); Shawn Tarrant (D); Veronica Truner (D)

Voting No (7 Delegates): John Donoghue (D); Donald Elliott (R); Bill Frank (R); Wade Kach (R); Nick Kipke (R); Susan Krebs (R); Justin Ready (R)

Absent (1 Delegate): Pat McDonough (R)

Talk amongst yourselves.