sentences:  One of the members of the PSC that approved the rate cap was Joseph Curran III, the brother-in-law of Baltimore mayor and gubernatorial candidate Martin O'Malley, and son of the Maryland Attorney General, Joseph Curran.The 1999 plan would allow for competition for electricity in Maryland, but called for a rate cap to last until 2006, which turned out to be a rate so low that it discouraged competition.The original plan also would allow for rates to be reset at the end of the capped period, at which time the market forces would determine the going rate for electricity.