The Massachusetts House of Representatives is comprised of 160 members, each representing a district of approximately 40,000 people and each elected for a two-year term. As required by the Massachusetts Constitution, the House meets year-round in either formal or informal sessions to consider legislation. The Massachusetts House is led by the Speaker of the House who is elected by the members of the body at the beginning of each two-year legislative session. Base salary for each representative is approximately $66,256.
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I support election day (same day) registration and have voted in the House to support it. Legislation supporting election day registration must also provide the resources necessary for town and city clerks to implement and execute election day registration, for communities ranging from several thousand to Boston's 700,000.
The legislature should move to bring emissions from transportation, buildings, and electricity generation to zero as quickly as possible. This includes carrots and sticks; regulations for existing infrastructure and for not-yet-built infrastructure; with both public and public-private partnerships; in urban, suburban, and rural landscapes.
I will continue to use my expertise in the energy sector to shape legislation, prioritizing both efforts with long lead times (e.g. decarbonizing all buildings in MA) and efforts with immediate benefits (e.g. solar PV, EV charging, and supporting mass transit).
Within the past two years, the legislature's MBTA Communities Act and Housing Bond Bill have required communities to allow more density near transit and accessory dwelling units (ADUs, commonly called mother-in-law apartments). It has also dramatically increased public funds for constructing and maintaining deeply subsidized and workforce public housing. We must continue funding housing, acknowledging the steep cost.
I would like more state support for hotel construction, to return Airbnb units to apartments.
Continuing to improve the MBTA will allow people to travel faster and farther, opening up more housing opportunities. Allowing residential skyscrapers in more of Boston would also dramatically improve both housing and congestion.
We must continue building or otherwise creating decent shelters for those in need, be they new arrivals or long-time residents of Massachusetts, and we must prioritize children and their caretakers. Simultaneously, more aggressive negotiation with motel owners and other buildings, catering companies, and other supporting business owners would stretch dollars further, allowing the Commonwealth to support more people.
We must also acknowledge that this isn't Boston's problem or Brockton's problem -- this is also Brookline's problem. At the local level, we have plenty of room to step up our support, both from individuals in the community and our Town government.
Adequate funding for the MBTA is the most important transportation issue for the district and the Commonwealth. Better transit infrastructure and operations mean faster, safer, more reliable service, and I work directly with the T and the Town for exactly that.
I have a very close relationship with the MBTA and played an important role in the redesign of the Brookline Hills station, in deploying transit signal prioritization for the C Line (when the Green Line gets the green light), and most recently, in designing new C Line platforms to conform with ADA, allow faster service, and accommodate longer streetcars in the 2030s. I've also worked with the T on bus infrastructure, including bus stop locations and the Route 9 dedicated bus lane.
