Kumar P. Barve

Kumar P. Barve (Marathi: कुमार बर्वे) (born September 8, 1958 in Schenectady, New York is an American politician. He is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing District 17 in Montgomery County, which includes the cities of Rockville and Gaithersburg. He was the first Asian-American, of Indian descent, to be elected to a state legislature in the United States, and served from 2002 to 2015 as the Majority Leader of the House of Delegates. In 2015, he was appointed to chair the House Environment and Transportation Committee, which oversees transportion, the environment, agriculture, ethics, and housing and real property law. His legislative work has focused largely on protecting the environment, improving health care, and the promotion of the high-tech industry in Maryland. He sponsored both the 1995 Health Access Act that place limits on HMOs for the first time and legislation that created the Technology Development Corporation of Maryland. He unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2016 in Maryland's 8th congressional district, losing the Democratic Primary to the eventual winner, State Senator Jamie Raskin. ^[1]

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Anne Arundel County, Maryland

Anne Arundel County is located in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent.

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Bachelor of Science

A Bachelor of Science (Latin Baccalaureus Scientiae, B.S., BS, B.Sc., BSc, or B.Sc; or, less commonly, S.B., SB, or Sc.B., from the equivalent Latin Scientiae Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years, or a person holding such a degree.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Gaithersburg, Maryland

Gaithersburg, officially the City of Gaithersburg, is a city in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private research university in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Americans

Indian Americans or Indo-Americans are Americans whose ancestry belongs to any of the many ethnic groups of the Republic of India.

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Jamie Raskin

Jamin Ben Raskin (born December 13, 1962) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017.

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Jennie M. Forehand

Jennie M. Forehand (born December 17, 1935) is a legislator who has served 15 years in the Maryland Senate, representing Rockville, Gaithersburg, and Garrett Park.

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Larry Hogan

Lawrence Joseph Hogan Jr. (born May 25, 1956) is an American politician who currently serves as the 62nd Governor of Maryland, in office since January 2015.

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Majority leader

In U.S. politics, the majority floor leader is a partisan position in a legislative body.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.

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Maryland House of Delegates

The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the legislature of the State of Maryland.

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Maryland's 8th congressional district

Maryland's 8th congressional district stretches from the northern Washington, D.C. suburbs north towards the Pennsylvania border.

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McDonough School of Business

The McDonough School of Business (commonly abbreviated as MSB) is one of the four undergraduate and one of the five graduate schools of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. It is named in honor of Georgetown alumnus Robert Emmett McDonough.

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Michael E. Busch

Michael Erin Busch (born January 4, 1947) is the current Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates in the United States.

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Montgomery County, Maryland

Montgomery County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland, located adjacent to Washington, D.C. As of the 2010 census, the county's population was 971,777, increasing by 9.0% to an estimated 1,058,810 in 2017.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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Paint Branch High School

Paint Branch High School is a high school located in the Fairland census-designated place, an unincorporated section of Montgomery County, Maryland; it has a Burtonsville postal address.

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Rockville, Maryland

Rockville is a city and the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, part of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.

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Schenectady, New York

Schenectady is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat.

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Silver Spring, Maryland

Silver Spring is a city located inside the Capital Beltway in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act

Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) was an attempt to introduce a Uniform Act for US States to follow.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States presidential election, 2008

The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumar_P._Barve

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