Joe Lieberman: Maryland's lessons for DC – this is what working for the common good looks like

You need simply look to what happened recently in Maryland to appreciate what our government could do if our leaders in both parties simply changed their approach to problem solving.

Given the dynamics that exist in Annapolis today, pundits might presume that gridlock was inevitable. Far from being controlled by a single party, the state’s government is split between the two. But faced with the desperate need to provide relief to families and businesses, Maryland’s top leaders refused to let partisanship turn to gridlock. This new normal in Washington is wrong for a number of reasons.  Republican Gov. Larry Hogan – working with a supermajority Democratic state legislature led by House of Delegates Speaker Adrienne Jones and Senate President Bill Ferguson – signed a bipartisan COVID relief bill into law just weeks after it was first introduced. The bill didn’t just pass overwhelmingly. It passed with nearly unanimous support from Democrats and Republicans.