Maryland: Roscoe Bartlett

Conservative Republican Rep. Roscoe Bartlett of Frederick and liberal Democratic Rep. Donna Edwards of Prince Georges County--the ideological bookends of the state's congressional delegation--were the only Marylanders to vote against a $106 billion measure to insure continued military operations in...

D-Day was last Saturday, June 6. But for Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, the only Republican left in the state's congressional delegation, "C Day" -- for "Committee"-- is Tuesday. That's when the Republican steering committee is expected to decide who gets the...

Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, the lone Republican in the state's congressional delegation, confirmed Monday that he is running for a tenth term in 2010. Bartlett, also the oldest Marylander in Congress, said through an aide that he wants to keep the...

Wisdom of the ancients:

Said Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md.: "Mr. President, I probably come at this from a slightly different perspective. I remember when FDR beat Hoover in 1932. So I remember the Great Depression very well. I don't remember any of the many government programs affecting the course of the Depression. Government programs didn't work then, I don't know why we think they would work now. Mr. President, I think our obsessive borrowing has fully mortgaged my kids and my grandkids. Now we're working on mortgaging my two great-grandkids. Mr. President, I think it's more than a little bit selfish to try to solve our economic problems which we created by burdening future generations yet to be born."This prompted applause.

H/T The Other McCain--a fellow Marylander BTW