March 2008

Breaking News for House Screen www.mass.gov/legis,

It seems the new year has overlapped some hearings and if you go to some dates within the 48 hour notice requirement you will find 2007 so be checking for this.. posted March 25, 2008 J Aldrich,
I discovered this about 45 minutes ago and it took me that long to solve.

As we enter High Holidays for Christians and Jews this month and next I would say, hearings will be hit and miss. I have been sick since the 25th of January off and on and still have not come back to my true health. I will be working on many of the back office stuff that never gets done. If you would like a hearing covered please call Speaker Di Massi office first asking for Don Coleman who is in charge of House Broadcasting. If enough start calling on a regular basis maybe then they will get it we the people want the footage up on Broadband. Thank you, Happy Easter, Sweet Passover..and especially Festive Purim..I love that holiday. J Aldrich, Hamilton posted March 3 2008..and I am now officially 65.

www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar03.htm,
www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar04.htm,
www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar05.htm,
www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar06.htm,
www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar07.htm,

www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar10.htm,
www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar11.htm,
www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar12.htm,
www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar13.htm,
www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar14.htm,

http://www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar24.htm,
http://www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar25.htm,
http://www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar26.htm,
http://www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar27.htm,
http://www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar28.htm,

week of March 24, 2008

Bonding and Captital Expenditures
had a meeting on Monday

Labor and Workforce and Development
has a hearing this afternoon at 2pm
Tuesday March 25, 2008
Rep Byron Rushing asked for another hearing
to support this bill as many testifiers could not
get to speak..well that is nothing new..is it..
Today on discrimination against small large
or overweight people. H1844
They want to overhaul the discrimination bill to include
workplace discrimination for someone who might be a midget
or large and so why not zits??? or accomodation problems
like chair replacements for overweight people?? or hiring policies
for a large person in a retail store ??? Does this mean all must stop
using people that are appropriate so that this discrimination bill can
be accomodated??? What about deoderant problems in workplace
settings now that is a stinky problem?? What about hiring people
who dress inappropriately for an office or a school or whatever??
I think we are going too far here and also WORKPLACE AND DEVELOP
MENT DOES NOT WANT TO BE TAPED EVER ...SO WHAT DOES THAT
SAY ABOUT THE BILLS THEY COVER???? IS IS RIGHT ALL
SORTS OF MISJUDGEMENTS WILL BE SPREAD AROUND
BECAUSE THE PUBLIC DOES NOT SEE THE LOGIC IN BILLS
LIKE THIS BUT WHAT IS LOGIC ANYWAY ANYMORE...

Monday March 17, 2008
statehouse holiday
www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar18.htm,
third wed of march, Joint rule 10 day..
www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar19.htm,
http://www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar19.htm.
check this out we the people, this link never required http: but it does now!!!!!! what is that about?
www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar20.htm,
www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar21.htm,
check this we the people! this date 21 actually has wed the 21st 2007..what is this about???

Third week of March

March 18, 2007

Tuesday
Committee on Judiciary
1PM A 1
H4476, Anti Slapp, H4468, H1423,

Committee on Consumer Protection and Prof Licensure
1030AM A1
ban dog racing etc

Committee on Economic Dev
Casino hearing
plus protest before in front of statehouse
10 AM Gardner Auditorium

Executive sessions on for week
Tuesday

Committee on Public Health
plus a hearing after on H4434
1130AM Rm 437

Committee on Public Safety
11AM Rm B@

Housing Committee
1030AM A2

Transportation Committee
11AM B1

Committee on Agriculture
10AM B2
100 bills
Plus agriculture day Press Conf grand staircase 1130AM

Telecommunications and Energy
1 PM B 1

Children and Fam and Pers with Disabilities
11 AM Rm 222

Thursday
committee on Financial Services
exec session 3PM A2

March 19 2008
Wednesday

LWV GARDNER AUD
10 AM..

State Admin Reg Ovsgt
11AM B 1

Committee on Bonding and Capital Expenditure
1PM - 3PM Rm 222
Environmental Bond Bill

Committee on ElectionLaw
1PM B 1
polling safety

Press Conference
Disability 1130AM Grand Staircase

Friday March 21, 2008

two items worth checking out..

Office of Medicaid
public hearing
1PM 21st floor Ashburton Place
emerg regulations

Criminal History Systems Board
public hearing
1PM 21st floor Ashburton Place
Conf Rm 2

2nd week of March

Monday March 10, 2008

930AM Nurses Hall
Assoc of Non Profits
continental bkfst
rally against repealing income tax
H274 support for this bill

1145AM Great Hall
Life Sciences Day

Repub State Committee
7PM Newton Marriott

Tuesday

11AM Gardner Auditorium
Cultural Facilities Grants

11AM Rm B2
ElderAffairs Exec

10AM - 1PM
A2
Biofuels Hearing

1PM A 1
Judiciary Committee

Wednesday

1030AM Rm 222
Chil Fam Dis Pub Hrg

1PM Gardner Auditorium
Health Care Finance committee
dated wrong on house webcast
dated the 14th..it is the 12th

10AM A2
Committee on Revenue

A2 215PM
Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security

630PM Old South Meeting House
1st Amendment Freedoms

A1 10AM
Committee on Public Health
2 late filed bills

Thursday

10AM B1
Committee on Economic Development and Small business

A1 1030AM
Committee on Housing H4433 Lawrence bill

B1 1Pm
Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources

Special evants and Hearings the first week of March mostly at Statehouse but occasionally interesting items show up about town.

Monday March 3 2008

noon
Mass Alliance of Boys and Girls luncheon
noon Great Hall

School Based Health Centers
luncheon Nurses Hall
Mental Health and substance abuse issues
1130AM

forum Harvard University
6pm will be streamed live
iop.harvard.edu/events_forum.html,
6pm JFK St Cambridge
TOPIC GET THIS:
THE POWER OF UNREASONABLE PEOPLE
SPONSORED BY THE KENNEDY SCHOOL
Social entrepreneurship..social policy

noon Harvard Kennedy School again
the NEW MEDIA, William Kristel
noon Shorenstein Ctr of Press

Tuesday March 4, 2008

voting day Texas Ohio RI
Primaries
Also four local elections..how many repubs can we elect??

Committee on Veterans
RM 437 11AM
Bill on employment workmens comp
this is not even on the House screen yet
posted Mon mar3 08
exec session after.. exec'd out most of the bills from the past two hearings to study
taped this hearing..

Judiciary hearing
1PM A 1
gotta be there..
check bill listing
www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar04.htm,
House Broadcast taped this hearing Do not plan to see this on Broadband for at least
3 weeks but call Don Coleman for more info in Di Masi's office.
1PM to 12AM
I taped about 9 hours of this..catch of the day, video news
I only taped the transgender presentations. I also audio taped for
cd an audio version of whole hearing. This hearing the worst organized
hearing I have ever seen. Three different brochures were
distributed with different bills on each of them and Mass Resistance
on the last tape testified two of their bills had been removed.
People were allowed to talk on all the bills they wanted so each person took
up 3 minutes for each bill they spoke on...The non T bills were heard first
however and so all waiting to speak on 1722 hung out relentlessly. It was at least 4pm
before the real topics began.. Tpeople had
30 panels, and most of the opposition waited until late at night to
testify. Brian Camenker of Massresistance submitted a 135 page
report against passing the bill 1722.
I believe 500 people showed up and about 100 left early we
would have been still testifying at 5AM had they stayed.
posted 3 5 08 J Aldrich
The room was too hot too closed up and too small, people were sprawled
on floors in the halls outside the hearing room until 6PM and many disabled
were forced to leave as the time was too difficult to withstand. This hearing
should have been put in Gardner Auditorium for sure. It violated every code
there is for meeting in a state building. Media were insulted immediately and asked
to move to the side when the room was packed to the rafters with public testifiers who
were not going to give up their spots..Eventually the doors were removed between A1
and A2 and the sprawl extended to that area. It was still grossly insufficient. The end
was worse than the beginning as the staff for food had been gone two hours and no
one had adequate water or food. It is an actual miracle that no one fainted in this
public abusive arena.

Wednesday March 5, 2008

Revenue Committee Hearing
10AM B 2
always packed and the smallest room..
H4499 Corporate Tax Policies

Today it was announced that
there was a Housing Hearing
in Gardner Auditorium
which will be discussing the 50,000
housing units in the Commonwealth.
A subject that should have been given
respect by announcing it correctly.
As I was in yesterday, the docket room simply
did not have this hearing on record.
this is not on the house webcast
screen either and the scramble
continues to find the public hearings
the public is supposed to know about
before 48 hours.
I did not travel in as I could not get
home last night due to no trains
out of Boston. It was simply too
difficult to pull that one off after the
ordeal on the 4th in Judiciary.
posted 4 5 08 J aldrich 249pm

5PM to 7PM
NEW BEDFORD RAID ANIVERSARY
public testimony
287 Columbus Ave
Boston

STATE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM
exhibit Nurses Hall
3pm

Thursday March 6, 2008

Senate Formal Session

Committee on Elder Affairs
10AM rm 222
Atty Gen will speak on abuse and financial exploitation

Saturday March 8, 2008
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE HEARING
Bunker Hill Community College
11 AM

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