Maryland and Congress

One of the senatorial seats held in Maryland for the Baltimore City district belongs to Joan Carter. Carter is a democrat, and has been a member of the senate since 1997 and has been an active representative for Maryland since her beginning. She has been a part of many committees and subcommittees to help unite as well as improve Maryland. Committees such as licensing and regulatory affairs subcommittee, alcoholic beverages committee, "Joint committee on Children, Youth, and Families", and the "Legislative Policy Committee", just to name some. Carter played a role in these and many more positions in other matters throughout her time as senator. Carter supports such causes and deals with such issues as environmental justice, substance awareness and prevention,  aid for in need families as well as for special needs individuals. More recently Carter has been involved in a program to study dyslexia in order to implement an education program to help students with the condition as well as working on a new commission for redistricting reform for Maryland statewide. A member of Congress who has been in support of many of the same kinds of voting patterns as Carter is the representative for the 7th District of Maryland, Baltimore City, Elijah Cummings.
Cummings is also a democrat and has been in the House of Representatives since 1996. As said above, Cummings supports a lot of the same issues that Carter does and has. A significant difference that the two do have though is the amount of civil activism and support for civil rights in their work. Carter is not in opposition of any civil rights, but Cummings has been a very active civil rights leader and activist for several decades. He usually votes in a very liberal manner in support of environmental reforms, women's rights, and against racial issues like police reform in Baltimore City and around the country. More recently, Cummings has announced that he has joined Obama's administration to work on a new solar energy initiative that would also be responsible for new job creation.
This is just one senator and just one representative from Maryland, representing the area of Maryland that I am from. Baltimore, Maryland has been dealing with some very tense and complicated issues recently and it takes committed representatives who care about their district like Carter and Cummings to help try to bring the City back together and to reform.
Joan Carter- http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/05sen/html/msa12413.html
Elijah Cummings- https://cummings.house.gov