2005-2006 Legislative Report
12/12/2006
Executive Summary
MASSPIRG is the state’s leading advocate for the public interest. Each
legislative session, we push for passage of a range of public interest
bills and work to defeat measures that will harm the environment or
consumers. This report indicates how senators and representatives stand
on some important public interest bills. Unfortunately, the legislature
only votes on a fraction of bills filed every session, and many
important issues are left languishing. This report includes roll call
votes when available. But for three bills on which there was no vote,
(preventing identity theft, stopping global warming, and protecting our
Boston Harbor Islands) we indicated whether lawmakers cosponsored or
endorsed those bills. All three issues will be among MASSPIRG’s top
priorities for the 2007-08 session.
Each
legislator in this report earns a score. The score represents the
number of times the lawmaker voted in support of the public interest
position combined with the number of our three priority issues they
cosponsored or endorsed. The Senate has 8 items which we scored and the
House has 9.
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