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Two well-known Maryland politicians -- Del. Ellen R. Sauerbrey, R-10th, and Del. Larry A. LaMotte, D-5B -- will be the featured speakers at 7:30 tonight during a debate on presidential politics and issues of local, regional and national concern at Western Maryland College.The event, in the Decker College Center Forum, is free and open to the public.Ms. Sauerbrey, who is a 1959 graduate of Western Maryland College, has been a member of the House of Delegates since 1979 and the minority leader since 1987.

Del. Lawrence A. LaMotte, father of two daughters, says the new abortion law up for referendum next month protects girls' health as well as parents' rights when a minor seeks an abortion.Frederica Mathewes-Green, mother of three and a leader in the campaign for the law's defeat, says the statute shuts out parents, puts girls in jeopardy and leaves the abortion decision up to the doctor, who stands to profit from the procedure.Amid all the arguments over the abortion law that goes before voters Nov. 3, one of the hottest centers on the issue of adolescents and their parents: When should a mother or father be told that a daughter is seeking an abortion?

Ten-year Carroll Del. Lawrence A. LaMotte says the 1992 General Assembly session has been unequivocally the most unpleasant he's experienced.The quarrelsome legislature couldn't agree on budget or tax proposals before Monday's conclusion of the 90-day session. It was forced into an extended session to enact a "doomsday" budget containing severe reductions.The legislature finally agreed on a budget Friday evening, then was called into a special session by Gov. William Donald Schaefer to deal with three tax bills necessary to avoid further spending cuts.

A. Hungerford LaMotte, a retired insurance and real estate executive, died Saturday of heart failure at St. Joseph Hospital in Towson. He was 80 and had lived in Baltimore most of his life.Services for Mr. LaMotte will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the chapel of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, 5603 N. Charles St.An all-state lacrosse player at Polytechnic Institute, Mr. LaMotte graduated in 1931 and later attended St. John's College in Annapolis, where he was named an All-America in lacrosse.

A. H. LaMotteInsurance executiveServices for A. Hungerford LaMotte, a retired insurance and real estate executive, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the chapel of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, 5603 N. Charles St.Mr. LaMotte, who lived in Baltimore for most of his life, died Saturday of heart failure at St. Joseph Hospital in Towson. He was 80.From the end of World War II to his death, Mr. LaMotte brokered commercial and residential real estate with Russell T. Baker & Co. and previously sold pension and retirement plans for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.

ANNAPOLIS -- Some delegates held their noses yesterday as they helped move the governor's watered-down growth management bill to the House floor during an emotionally charged committee meeting.A handful of delegates made an unsuccessful attempt to include sanctions against counties that don't manage development properly. After their amendments failed, they "reluctantly" supported the bill even though they said it does little to accomplish its goal of stopping suburban sprawl.The House Environmental Matters Committee passed the Economic Growth and Resource Act by a 19-3 margin.

The county planning director and Carroll Farm Bureau members, critics of a Schaefer administration plan to curb suburban sprawl last year, supported the governor's revamped growth management legislation Monday."

Del. Lawrence A. LaMotte has once again immersed himself in a major legislative issue -- this year, it's health care reform.Last year, the abortion issue had LaMotte working overtime, meeting behind thescenes with legislative leaders and speaking at demonstrations as a main sponsor of the House of Delegates' abortion rights legislation.Now, rescuing health care programs has become his obsession.LaMotte, D-Carroll, Baltimore, is one of three delegates working with the Speaker of the House on major changes in the way the state administers Medicaid, the health assistance program for Maryland's poor.

In a legislative year characterized by budget slashing, Carroll's state legislators managed to shave more than $6,000 off their personal and office expenses paid by taxpayers.The six-member Carroll delegation spent a combined $80,372 during the 1990-1991 legislative yearfor General Assembly-related expenses, such as lodging, travel, food, clerical assistance and office supplies and equipment, an average of $13,395 each.The cost to the public, which foots the bill so expenses don't eat into lawmakers' $27,000 annual salaries, represents a 7 percent decrease compared to the $86,515 the delegation spent the previous year on legislative business.