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For more information and to get your free subscription, go to: https://lp.constantcontactpages. com/su/aPTLucK THE HOUSE AND SENATE: There were no roll call votes in the House WASTE REMOVAL & BUILDING MAINTENANCE • Landscaping, Lawn Care, Mulching • Yard Waste & Rubbish Removal • Interior & Exterior Demolition (Old Decks, Fences, Pools, Sheds, etc.) • Appliance and Metal Pick-up • Construction and Estate Cleanouts • Pick-up Truck Load of Trash starting at $169 • Carpentry LICENSED & INSURED Call for FREE ESTIMATES! KITCHEN CABINETS To Look Like New 508-840-0501 FURNITURE STRIP & FINISH or Senate last week. This week, Beacon Hill Roll Call reports local senators’ roll call attendance records for the 2022 session. The Senate has held 146 roll calls so far in the 2022 session. Beacon Hill Roll Call tabulates the number of roll calls on which each senator voted and then calculates that number as a percentage of the total roll call votes held. That percentage is the number referred to as the roll call attendance record. Thirty of the 40 senators did not miss any roll calls and have 100 percent roll call attendance records. This high level of participation can likely be attributed to the fact that under emergency rules adopted because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the vast majority of the 40 senators are not in the Senate chamber during a session. Most are watching and listening to the session from their home, business or Senate offi ce and casting their votes remotely. Senators’ remote votes are communicated to Senate offi cials during the session or prior to the session if senators are informed in advance that there will be a roll call vote. If a member wants to speak on an issue under consideration, they do so on a separate “debate phone line” and their voice is then heard in the Senate chamber and by anyone watching the broadcast online. The number of senators who had 100 percent roll call attendance records in the four years prior to the pandemic was lower than 2022 as follows: 28 in 2019; 20 in 2018; 25 in 2017; and 17 in 2016. It is a Senate tradition that the Senate president only votes occasionally. Current Senate President Karen Spilka follows that tradition and only voted on 39 (26.7 percent) of the 146 roll calls while not voting on 107 (73.3 percent) of them. Nine (23 percent) of the 39 senators, other than Spilka, missed one or more roll calls. Sens. Cindy Friedman (D-Arlington), Diana DiZoglio (D-Methuen) and Sen. Joan Lovely (D-Salem) each missed three roll calls for a roll call attendance record of 97.9 percent. Sens. Sonia Chang Diaz (D-Boston), Harriette Chandler (D-Worcester) and Ryan Fattman (R-Sutton) each missed two rolls and scored a roll call attendance record of 98.6 percent. Finally, Sens. Mike Rush (D-West Roxbury), Adam Gomez (D-Springfi eld) and Nick Collins (D-Boston) each missed only one roll call for a roll call attendance record of 99.3 percent. Beacon Hill Roll Call contacted the nine senators asking why they missed some roll calls. Only two of the nine responded. “I was prevented from engaging in three roll call votes while working remotely because my internet connection was interrupted,” said Sen. Lovely. “I have participated in all other roll call votes this session and submitted a letter on how I would have voted to the Senate Clerk.” “A vote of mine was not recorded due to remote communications issue,” said Sen. Rush. “I submitted a letter [indicating how I voted] shortly after with my vote on [the roll call].” Sens. Friedman, Chang-Diaz, Chandler, DiZoglio, Fattman, Gomez and Collins did not respond to repeated requests by Beacon Hill Roll Call asking them for a statement. SENATORS’ 2022 ROLL CALL ATTENDANCE RECORDS The percentage listed next to the senator’s name is the percentage of roll call votes on which the senator voted. The number in parentheses represents the number of roll calls that he or she missed. Sen. Lydia Edwards 100 percent (0) ALSO UP ON BEACON HILL FILL OUT ONE APPLICATION FOR MULTI-STATE BENEFITS – Gov. Baker signed into law a measure that would allow individuals to simultaneously apply online, on a state-sponsored website, for various state-funded benefi ts including MassHealth, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), childcare subsidies, housing subsidies, fuel assistance and other needs-based health care, nutrition and shelter benefi ts. Supporters say that people who need state assistance usually need it from several diff erent programs. They noted this presents a problem because it is diffi cult for people without cars and childcare to go to all the diff erent places to apply. They said a one-stop common application would help streamline the system and avoid a lot of bureaucratic red tape. Baker said he strongly support the measure “as it aligns with an important initiative that is currently underway in this administration.” “The agencies and secretariats included in the proposed [measure] are currently engaged in collaborative eff orts to establish a common application mechanism nearly identical to the portal envisioned by this section,” said Baker. MEDICAL MARIJUANA USE ON SCHOOL GROUNDS – Gov. BakBEACON | SEE Page 24 er v L nabis bill that he r int w tr 1. On Aug. 26, 1826, what market with the name of another community opened in Boston, Mass.? 2. How are farmer, hoop and Humboldt Fog similar? 3. What type of Chinese dress has frog fasteners on the collar and lapel? 4. On Aug. 27, 2003, a world record–winning battery system was installed in what cold climate U.S. city that is nicknamed “The Golden Heart City”? 5. How many times has the U.S. Constitution been amended: 10, 27 or 33? 6. Which planet has Valles Marineris, which is solar system’s largest known canyon: Earth, Jupiter or Mars? 7. August 28 is National Bow Tie Day; what American performance artist has been known for a bow tie hairstyle? 8. After what year did the world’s population switch from mostly rural to mostly urban: 1953, 1990 or 2008? 9. Who inspired Robert Zimmerman to change his name to Bob Dylan? 10. On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landAnswers tment of Elemeny Education ublic t a study and iso ently fall in what state? 11. How are ascorbic acid, retinol and calciferol similar? 12. What item of clothing was named after a horserace? 13. On Aug. 30, 1885, what method of transport was fi rst patented by Gottlieb Daimler? 14. Guinness World Records reported that Zeus, a 3’5” dog in Texas, is the world’s tallest dog; what breed is he: greyhound, Great Dane or borzoi? 15. Does thunder only happen when it rains? 16. In what South American country is it popular for women to wear bowler hats? 17. On Aug. 31, 1895, what German patented a navigable balloon? 18. How are Martin Arrowsmith, Yuri Zhivago and Victor Frankenstein similar? 19. What song from the 1980’s is subtitled “A Salute to 60’s Rock”? 20. On Sept. 1, 1897, the first American subway opened in what city? 1. Quincy Market 2. They are types of soft cheese made in America. 3. Cheongsam 4. Fairbanks, Alaska (In 2005 Guinness recognized it as the World’s Most Powerful Battery.) 5. 27 6. Mars (“almost four times longer, 20 times wider, and four times deeper” than the Grand Canyon, according to National Geographic.) 7. Lady Gaga 8. 2008 9. The poet Dylan Thomas 10. Louisiana 11. They are names of vitamins (C, A and D2, respectively). 12. Ascot (a scarflike tie named after “The Royal Ascot” race at Ascot Heath in Ascot, England) 13. Motorcycle 14. Great Dane 15. No; there are dry thunderstorms (predominantly in the western states) 16. Bolivia 17. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin 18. They are fi ctional doctors (from “Arrowsmith,” “Dr. Zhivago” and “Frankenstein”) 19. “R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.” by John Mellancamp 20. Boston
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