Greetings, I’m still catching my breath from the final month of our two-year legislative session. July was a sprint at the end of a marathon as the House and Senate collaborated to bury the [...]
Right before we finished our work for the year, the legislature passed a sweeping mental health bill, titled the Mental Health ABC Act: Addressing Barriers to Care (ABC) with my strong support. [...]
We’re writing about a both timely and time-bound opportunity to engage in a process, the outcome of which has the potential to affect the health of the Connecticut River Valley for generations to [...]
Yesterday, in the final days of the legislative session, the House and Senate both passed legislation that makes key reforms to the governance structure of the state’s veterans’ homes. The bill [...]
I offered the following remarks in a floor speech on July 29, 2022 to support a bill I filed to transform public health in Massachusetts: Thank you Mr. Presdient, and through you to the [...]
Today, the Senate and House passed H.5090, An Act expanding protections for reproductive and gender-affirming care. I was delighted to vote YES and proud that many of the Senate’s equity-driven [...]
Yesterday, the Senate passed a comprehensive $4.4 billion economic development bill that invests equitably in local communities and in people across the Commonwealth. I was proud to secure 11 [...]
Yesterday morning at 6:30 a.m., before I hit the road to Boston, I saw the final bill produced by the Clean Energy and Climate Conference Committee which was set up to reconcile the House and [...]
On July 18, I voted YES to send the legislature’s final FY23 budget to the Governor’s desk. The FY23 budget process kicked off back in December 2021, when economists told us how much revenue [...]