The state Senate Ways and Means Committee in Massachusetts has introduced a 22.5 billion dollar budget proposal for the fiscal year of 2004 on May 21, 2003 that avoids tax hikes and gambling as means of generating revenu...
Story continues below Lesser, who co-chairs the Economic Development Committee, said his version of the bill remains “live and under active conversation and negotiation” in the Senate Ways and Means Committee but said senators continue to grapple with how to ensure the proposal emphasizes consumer...
As an update to our recent post, the Massachusetts Senate took action on several important pieces of legislation that relate to higher education institutions and their students. Below is a brief summary of the activity that occurred during the passage o
Letter from Daniel Tsai, Assistant Secretary for MassHealth, to Karen Spilka, Chair of the Massachusetts Senate Committee on Ways and Means, and Brian S. D... (the Department) to prepare and submit an annualreport to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, an...
They also took comfort from the victory of Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, probably the leading voice of liberalism in the Senate, who beat back the most serious challenge of his career from Republican Mitt Romney, son of the automobile executive and onetime Michigan Gov. George Romney. ...
When the Fifty-first Congress convened on December 2, 1889, the House Ways and Means Committee, under the chairmanship of Republican William McKinley of Ohio, began work on a comprehensive new tariff. Using the "Senate Substitute" as its guide, but operating on the assumption that the electi...
Lead Art: Teamsters President Sean O’Brien gestures toward the Massachusetts delegation at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 15, 2024. | Francis Chung/POLITICO Jul 2024 FBI, DHS warn of possible retaliation for attack...
“Likely ensuring Cotton’s ascension to the chair is the raw politics of last month’s Senate Republican leadership race between Cornyn and Sen. JOHN THUNE (R-S.D.). A select rather than standing committee, the intelligence panel’s chair is chosen by the majority leader. And Cotton sup...
Green light for same-sex marriage in Massachusetts full, equal marriage rights for same-sex couples were constitutional, clearing the way for the nation's first same-sex marriages beginning in mid-May ... B Roehr,R Wockner - 《Gay & Lesbian Times》...
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, who overlapped with Vice President Kamala Harris as state attorneys general, delivered a speech capping off testimonials about Harris’s prowess as a prosecutor. She spoke about how former President Donald Trump and his enterprises have run afoul of the law ...