15 Facts About Pamela Beidle

Pamela Graboski Beidle was born on July 21,1951 and is an American politician who has served as a member of the Maryland Senate from District 32 since 2019.

Pamela Beidle was a member of the Northern Anne Arundel Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Life Underwriters, and served on the boards of Leadership Anne Arundel and Hospice of the Chesapeake.

In 1998, Beidle won election to the Anne Arundel County Council in District 1, succeeding term-limited councilmember George F Bachman Jr.

Pamela Beidle was sworn in December 1998, and served until December 4,2006.

Pamela Beidle was sworn into the Maryland House of Delegates on January 10,2007.

Pamela Beidle was a member of the Environmental Matters Committee during her entire tenure.

Maryland Matters compared the general election to the 2016 United States presidential election, noting that Pamela Beidle was deep-rooted in local politics while Grasso had comparatively less political experience, held politically partisan views, and was known for making controversial Facebook posts.

Pamela Beidle was sworn into the Maryland Senate on January 9,2019.

Pamela Beidle has been a member of the Executive Nominations Committee and the Finance Committee since 2019.

Pamela Beidle voted against Hogan's appointments to the board, claiming that there was "too much secrecy" surrounding the board's decisions.

In 2019, Pamela Beidle voted against the End-of-Life Option Act, which would have provided palliative care to terminally ill adults.

Pamela Beidle introduced a bill requiring Maryland to stay in the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact for an additional eight years, which passed and was signed into law by Governor Larry Hogan.

In 2012, Pamela Beidle voted for the Civil Marriage Protection Act, which legalized same-sex marriage in Maryland.

In June 2002, Pamela Beidle said she opposed a proposal to build a maglev line between Baltimore and Washington, DC In April 2022, she introduced legislation that would make it more expensive for the Baltimore-Washington Rapid Rail company to build the maglev line by requiring it to pay 25 percent of costs associated with acquiring land through condemnation to the jurisdiction where the land is located.

In 2016, Pamela Beidle introduced legislation that would require the Maryland Department of Transportation to use a scoring system to determine which state transportation projects to fund.