2026-02-03T02:05:55.561Z / CNN
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发布于 2026年2月2日，美国东部时间晚上9:05
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马里兰州众议院通过新国会选区地图，但参议院可能成为障碍
2026年2月2日，在马里兰州安纳波利斯的辩论中，共和党议员杰森·巴克尔（Jason Buckel）反对新的国会选区地图。
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安纳波利斯，马里兰州 美联社电—
马里兰州众议院周一通过了一项新的国会选区地图，该地图可能使民主党能够赢得该州唯一的共和党-held众议院席位，但该州参议院领导层自去年10月以来表示，该法案在参议院没有足够的支持来推进——主要原因是担心这可能适得其反。
应民主党州长韦斯·摩尔的敦促，马里兰州众议院在其他州重新划分选区的情况下，推动了不寻常的中期重新划分选区工作。
目前民主党在该州众议院代表团中以7-1的优势领先共和党。新地图将使击败共和党众议员安迪·哈里斯（Andy Harris）变得更容易，并使民主党能够赢得全部八个席位。
唐纳德·特朗普总统去年夏天发起了中期重新划分选区的努力，当时他敦促德克萨斯州的共和党官员重新绘制地图，以帮助共和党赢得更多席位，希望保住众议院的微弱多数。
马里兰州民主党人在周一长达四小时的辩论中，大部分时间都在批评特朗普的总统任期。法案的提案人、民主党代表C.T.威尔逊（C.T. Wilson）表示，该措施是必要的，“以帮助确保本届政府终于有一个国会能制衡其权力。”
反对新地图的共和党人则聚焦于哈里斯的选区（主要位于该州农村地区的东海岸）如何越过切萨皮克湾，纳入更多民主党选民，以帮助击败哈里斯。
“这完全是关于党派政治的，”西马里兰州共和党代表、众议院少数党领袖杰森·巴克尔表示。
但来自美国首都蒙哥马利县郊区的民主党代表马克·科曼（Marc Korman）辩称，自20世纪60年代以来，该选区已经多次跨越海湾——其中一次是根据法院命令——而在过去，包括哈里斯在内的五名不同共和党人仍然赢得了该席位。
巴尔的摩民主党人、参议院议长比尔·弗格森（Bill Ferguson）一直表示，旨在推翻哈里斯席位的重新划分可能会危及民主党目前持有的至少一个席位。
弗格森指出，2021年通过的国会选区地图被一名法官裁定违宪，该法官称其为“极端党派操纵选区的产物”。该地图也会使民主党更容易击败哈里斯。马里兰州在2022年通过了另一张地图，两党放弃了法律诉讼。弗格森指出，再次重新划分选区将引发新的法律挑战，并可能导致法院强制划定选区。
参议院议长表示，由于预计会有法律挑战，重新调整地图可能会扰乱该州的选举日程。马里兰州的候选人报名截止日期为2月24日，初选定于6月23日。
弗格森的发言人大卫·舒赫莱因（David Schuhlein）周一表示，弗格森对中期重新划分选区的反对立场没有改变。
Maryland House OKs new congressional map, but Senate will likely prove a roadblock
2026-02-03T02:05:55.561Z / CNN
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PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2026, 9:05 PM ET
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Maryland House OKs new congressional map, but Senate will likely prove a roadblock
Republican Del. Jason Buckel, the Maryland House minority leader, speaks in opposition to a new congressional map during debate in Annapolis, Maryland on February 2, 2026.
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The Maryland House approved a new congressional map Monday that could enable Democrats to win the state’s only Republican-held US House seat, but leadership in the state Senate has said since October the bill doesn’t have enough support to advance in that chamber — largely due to concerns it could backfire.
The Maryland House pushed forward with unusual mid-decade redistricting at the urging of Democratic Gov. Wes Moore in response to redistricting in other states.
Democrats now hold a 7-1 advantage over Republicans in the state’s US House delegation. The new map would make it easier to defeat Republican Rep. Andy Harris and enable Democrats to win all eight seats.
President Donald Trump launched mid-decade redistricting efforts last summer, when he urged Republican officials in Texas to redraw maps to help the GOP win more seats in hopes of preserving a narrow House majority.
Maryland Democrats spent much of the four-hour debate on Monday criticizing Trump’s presidency. Delegate C.T. Wilson, a Democrat who is the sponsor of the bill containing the map’s new boundaries, said the measure is needed “to help ensure that this administration finally has a Congress that puts his power in check.”
Republicans who oppose the new map focused on how Harris’ district, which is mostly on the state’s largely rural Eastern Shore, would jump over the Chesapeake Bay to include more Democratic voters to help oust Harris.
“It is about nothing except party politics,” Delegate Jason Buckel, a western Maryland Republican who is the House minority leader, said.
But Delegate Marc Korman, a Democrat in the Montgomery County suburbs of the nation’s capital, argued that the district has extended over the bay several times since the 1960s — including once by court order — and five different Republicans still won the seat when it did, including Harris.
Senate President Bill Ferguson, a Baltimore Democrat, has consistently said the redistricting effort aimed at flipping the seat held by Harris could jeopardize at least one seat now held by Democrats.
Ferguson has pointed out that a congressional map adopted in 2021 was ruled unconstitutional by a judge who described it as “a product of extreme partisan gerrymandering.” That map also would have made it easier for a Democrat to defeat Harris. Maryland passed another map in 2022, and the parties dropped their legal fight. Redrawing districts again would prompt new legal challenges and potentially allow a court to impose districts, Ferguson has noted.
Changing the map could be disruptive to the state’s election calendar, as well, due to expected legal challenges, the Senate president has said. Maryland has a February 24 candidate filing deadline and a primary scheduled for June 23.
Ferguson’s opposition to mid-decade redistricting has not changed, his spokesperson, David Schuhlein, said Monday.
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