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THE HOUSE AND SENATE: There were no roll calls in the House and Senate last week.“THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW” Friday, Jan. 20, at 5 p.m., is the “soft deadline” for legislation to be filed for consideration by the Legislature during the 2023-2024. ....
Beacon Hill Roll Call: Jan. 18 to Jan. 22, 2021 Published: 1/29/2021 3:10:27 PM There were no roll calls in the House or Senate last week. Instead, Beacon Hill Roll Call reports on the percentage of times local representatives voted with their party’s leadership in the 2020 legislative session. Beacon Hill Roll Call uses 259 votes from the 2020 House session as the basis for this report. This includes all roll calls that were not on local issues. The votes of the 125 Democrats were compared to former House Speaker Bob DeLeo until he resigned in December. After that, they were compared to current Speaker Ron Mariano. The votes of the 30 Republicans were compared with House Minority Leader Rep. Brad Jones, R-North Reading. ....