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R.I. General Assembly launches 2021 legislative session, adapted to the pandemic Edward Fitzpatrick © Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff..l Supreme Court Justice Maureen McKenna Goldberg, left, administering the oath to new House Speaker, K. Joseph Shekarchi, a Warwick Democrat, with his sister, Mary Shekarchi, at Veterans Memorial Auditorium. PROVIDENCE The General Assembly launched its 2021 legislative session on Tuesday with an opening day that included all the ritualistic speeches and leadership votes of years past as well as the indelible mark of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Rather than meeting beneath the State House’s marble dome, the House convened across the street at Veterans Memorial Auditorium in order to socially distance. Members elected K. Joseph Shekarchi as the new House Speaker while wearing face masks and offering words of support for Representative Grace Diaz, a Providence Democrat who was unable to attend after testing positive for COVID-19

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