Page 18 BEACON | FROM PAGE 14 Rep. Paul Donato0.6 percent Rep. Steven Ultrino 0 percent HOW LONG WAS LAST WEEK’S SESSION? Beacon Hill Roll Call tracks the length of time that the House and Senate were in session each week. Many legislators say that legislative sessions are only one aspect of the Legislature’s job and that a lot of important work is done outside of the House and Senate chambers. They note that their jobs also involve committee work, research, constituent work and other matters that are important to their districts. Critics say that the Legislature does not meet regularly or long enough to debate and vote in public view on the thousands of pieces of legislation that have been fi led. They note that the infrequency and brief length of sessions are misguided and lead to irresponsible late-night sessions and a mad rush to act on dozens of bills in the days immediately preceding the end of an annual session. During the week of March 29-April 2, the House met for a total of nine minutes while the Senate met for a total of 33 minutes. Mon. March 29 House 11:00 a.m. to 11:04 a.m. Senate 11:27 a.m. to 11:37 a.m. Tues. March 30 No House session No Senate session Wed. March 31 No House session No Senate session Thurs. April 1 House 11:01 a.m. to 11:06 a.m. Senate 11:42 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. Fri. April 2 No House session No Senate session Bob Katzen welcomes feedback at bob@beaconhillrollcall.com ~Handyman Services~ •Plumbing •Electric •Ceiling Fans •Waterheaters + More Call Tom 781-324-2770 NEW LISTING - LAWRENCE RARE FIND! 38 Main St., Saugus (617) 877-4553 mangorealtyteam.com ~ Meet Our Agents ~ LAWRENCE - Multi-Family, 2 family that offers 6 rooms, 2-3 bedrooms, many new updates, fenced in yard, pool, garage, shed, driveway and more....$349,000 Fluent in Chinese, Cantonese, Italian & Spanish! FOR RENT: Saugus 4 room, 2 bedroom condo includes heat, near town Cntr. Only $1900/month FOR RENT: Wakefield 4 bedroom Townhouse on bus line & close to Oak Grove. $2900/month THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, April 9, 2021 IMMIGRANT | FROM PAGE 9 done, whether that was in a hospital saving lives, in virtual classrooms teaching our children or in a grocery store keeping food on the shelves,” said U.S. Senator Ed Markey. “They teach in our schools, work in our restaurants and hospitals, discover groundbreaking cures,” said U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren. “Immigrants make our country stronger, and our communities are better and brighter because of the invaluable contributions of immigrants.” Abdulkader Hayani, a refugee from Syria, was honored for providing masks when they were urgently needed. When the pandemic hit in early 2020, he was laid off from his job as a tailor and turned his full attention to making and donating masks. In conjunction with The Shapiro Foundation, he was able to produce and distribute more than 2,000 masks in 22 states early in the pandemic when masks were in limited supply. A humble man, this accomplishment is something Hayani calls “just something very small to help the American people.” Monique Nguyen was born in Canada to parents from Vietnam and moved with her family to the United States as a child. As the executive director of the Matahari Women Workers’ Center in Boston, Nguyen created the MassUndocuFund last year with the Massachusetts Jobs with Justice coalition and One Fair Wage coalition to assist undocumented immigrants who lost employment or wages due to the pandemic. According to her organization, there are an estimated 250,000 undocumented immigrants who live and work in Massachusetts and contribute about $184.6 million in state and local taxes. Because of their immigration status, none of these residents are eligible for federal stimulus funds or state unemployment benefi ts. The MassUndocuFund has raised $1.5 million and distributed grants to workers in the restaurant industry, agriculture and construction and domestic workers and more in all 14 counties in Massachusetts. A native of Ireland, Niall Lennon is a senior director at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and a critical member of the team that, in conjunction with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, has made more than 15 million and counting COVID-19 tests possible. Starting with the fi rst test in March 2020 through the current processing of 120,000 tests each day, Lennon has spearheaded clinical validation and been a primary liaison with the Food and Drug Administration as well as partners such as the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke. Residents in COVID-19 hotspots, nursing homes, long-term care facilities, hospitals, homeless shelters and low-income housing complexes – as well as students in 140 public and private colleges and universities throughout the Northeast and K-12 schools across Massachusetts – have benefi ted from these eff orts. Other elected officials who contributed messages of thanks and congratulations included Congresswoman Katherine Clark, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Mike Kennealy, State Senator Jason Lewis and Revere Mayor Brian Arrigo. Business and community leaders also showed their support through prerecorded messages, including Massachusetts Competitive Partnership President/CEO Jay Ash, Boston Business Journal Executive Editor Doug Banks, Deshpande Foundation Founder/Trustee “Desh” Deshpande and New England Patriots Foundation President Josh Kraft. 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