As you may know, I co-teach the Legislation classes at the University of Baltimore and the University of Maryland Law Schools.

I’m very proud that several of my students are now my colleagues and a greater number serve on our professional staff or are lobbyists.

There was a hearing yesterday on a bill where I’m working with one of these staffers.

“What grade would you give your professor for his Oral Testimony?” I wrote him today.

This afternoon, a first-term legislator met with me to discuss a bill of hers that’s before the subcommittee I chair.

I said to myself, “What are the steps we need to take for this bill to become law?  Whom do we need to talk to?  Who can be helpful and who might night not be helpful?”

These are the questions I ask on my own bills.

They’re the questions I teach my students to ask.