Massachusetts General Court

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The Great and General Court of Massachusetts is made up of a Senate of 40 members and a House of Representatives of 160 members, all of whom are elected to two-year terms. Each branch selects its own leader from its membership. The current Senate President is Robert E. Travaglini and the current Speaker of the House is Salvatore F. DiMasi. These officers exercise vast amounts of power through their appointments of majority floor leaders and whips as well as their selection of chairs and all members of the joint committees. Joint committees of the General Court are made up of six senators and 15 representatives, with a Senate and House Chair for each committee. These committees must hold hearings on all bills filed. Their report usually determines whether or not a bill will pass. Each chamber has a separate Rules and a Ways and Means Committee and these are among the most important committee assignments.

The General Court is currently in its 183rd session. It was established in 1691 when the Massachusetts Bay Colony got a new charter, and existed in its colonial form until the first Massachusetts state constitution was ratified in 1779. The Court is currently housed in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

Senate Membership

(34 Dem / 6 GOP)

Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin - Andrea Nuciforo, Jr. (D - Pittsfield)
Bristol and Norfolk - James Timility (D - Walpole)
1st Bristol and Plymouth - Joan Menard (D - Somerset)
2nd Bristol and Plymouth - Mark Montigny (D - New Bedford)
Cape and Islands - Robert O'Leary (D - Barnstable)
1st Essex - Steven Baddour (D - Methuen)
2nd Essex - Frederick Berry (D - Peabody)
1st Essex and Middlesex - Bruce Tarr (R - Gloucester)
2nd Essex and Middlesex - Susan Tucker (D - Andover)
3rd Essex and Middlesex - Thomas McGee (D - Lynn)
Hampden - Stephen Buoniconti - (D - W. Springfield)

1st Hampden and Hampshire - Brian Lees (R - East Longmeadow)
2nd Hampden and Hampshire - Michael Knapik (R - Westfield)
Hampshire and Franklin - Stanley C. Rosenberg (D - Amherst)
1st Middlesex - Steven Panagiotakos (D - Lowell)
2nd Middlesex - Pat Jehlen (D - Massachusetts)
3rd Middlesex - Susan Fargo (D - Lincoln)
4th Middlesex - Robert Havern III (D - Arlington)
Middlesex and Essex - Richard Tisei (R - Wakefield)
1st Middlesex and Norfolk - Cynthia Stone Creem (D - Newton)
2nd Middlesex and Norfolk - Karen Spilka (D - Ashland)
Middlesex, Suffolk and Essex - Jarrett Barrios (D - Cambridge)
Middlesex and Worcester - Pamela Resor (D - Acton)
Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth - Brian Joyce (D - Milton)
Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex - Scott P. Brown (R - Wrentham)
Norfolk and Plymouth - Michael Morrissey (D - Quincy)
Plymouth and Barnstable - Therese Murray (D - Plymouth)
1st Plymouth and Bristol - Marc Pacheco (D - Taunton)
2nd Plymouth and Bristol - Robert Creedon, Jr. (D - Brockton)
Plymouth and Norfolk - Robert Hedlund (R - Weymouth)
1st Suffolk - John Hart, Jr. (D - Boston)
2nd Suffolk - Dianne Wilkerson (D - Boston)
1st Suffolk and Middlesex - Robert Travaglini (D - Boston) *Senate President
2nd Suffolk and Middlesex - Steven Tolman (D - Boston)
Suffolk and Norfolk - Marian Walsh (D - Boston)
1st Worcester - Harriette Chandler (D - Worcester)
2nd Worcester - Edward Augustus, Jr. (D - Worcester)
Worcester Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin - Stephen Brewer (D - Barre)
Worcester and Middlesex - Robert Antonioni (D - Leominster)
Worcester and Norfolk - Richard T. Moore (D - Uxbridge)

The current composition of the Senate is 34 Democrats and six Republicans.

=House Membership= (134 Dem / 22 GOP / 1 Ind / 3 vacant)
Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket

1st Barnstable - Thomas N. George (R - Yarmouth)
2nd Barnstable - Demetrius J. Atsalis (D - Barnstable)
3rd Barnstable - Matthew C. Patrick (D - Falmouth)
4th Barnstable - Shirley Gomes (R - Harwich)
5th Barnstable - Jeffrey Davis Perry (R - Sandwich)
Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket - Eric Turkington (D - Falmouth)

Berkshire

1st Berkshire - Daniel E. Bosley (D - North Adams)
2nd Berkshire - Shaun P. Kelly (R - Dalton
3rd Berkshire - Christopher Speranzo (D - Pittsfield)
4th Berkshire - William Smitty Pignatelli (D - Lenox)

Bristol

1st Bristol - vacant - special election Jan 10 / Feb 7
2nd Bristol - John A. Lepper (R - Attleboro)
3rd Bristol - James H. Fagan (D - Taunton)
4th Bristol - Philip Travis (D - Rehoboth)
5th Bristol - Patricia A. Haddad (D - Somerset)
6th Bristol - David B. Sullivan (D - Fall River)
7th Bristol - Robert Correia (D - Fall River)
8th Bristol - Michael J. Rodrigues (D - Westport)
9th Bristol - John F. Quinn (D - Dartmouth)
10th Bristol - William M. Straus (D - Mattapoisset)
11th Bristol - Robert M. Koczera (D - New Bedford)
12th Bristol - Mark A. Howland (D - Freetown)
13th Bristol - Antonio F. D. Cabral (D - New Bedford)
14th Bristol - Elizabeth A. Poirier (R - North Attleborough)

Essex

1st Essex - Michael A. Costello (D - Newburyport)
2nd Essex - Harriett L. Stanley (D - West Newbury)
3rd Essex - Brian S. Dempsey (D - Haverhill)
4th Essex - Bradford Hill (R - Ipswich)
5th Essex - Anthony J. Verga (D - Gloucester)
6th Essex - Mary E. Grant (D - Beverly)
7th Essex - J. Michael Ruane (D - Salem)
8th Essex - Douglas W. Petersen (D - Marblehead)
9th Essex - Mark V. Falzone (D - Saugus)
10th Essex - Robert F. Fennell (D - Lynn)
11th Essex - Steven Myles Walsh (D - Lynn)
12th Essex - Joyce A. Spiliotis (D - Peabody)
13th Essex - Theodore C. Speliotis (D - Danvers)
14th Essex - David M. Torrisi (D - North Andover)
15th Essex - Arthur J. Broadhurst (D - Methuen)
16th Essex - William Lantigua (U - Lawrence)
17th Essex - Barry R. Finegold (D - Andover)
18th Essex - Barbara A. L.Italien (D - Andover)

Franklin

1st Franklin - Stephen Kulik (D - Worthington)
2nd Franklin - Christopher J. Donelan (D - Orange)

Hampden

1st Hampden - Reed V. Hillman (R - Sturbridge)
2nd Hampden - Mary S. Rogeness (R - Longmeadow)
3rd Hampden - Daniel F. Keenan (D - Southwick)
4th Hampden - Donald F. Humason, Jr. (R - Westfield)
5th Hampden - Michael F. Kane (D - Holyoke)
6th Hampden - Stephen J. Buoniconti (D - West Springfield)
7th Hampden - Thomas M. Petrolati (D - Ludlow)
8th Hampden - Joseph F. Wagner (D - Chicopee)
9th Hampden - Christopher P. Asselin (D - Springfield)
10th Hampden - Cheryl A. Rivera (D - Springfield)
11th Hampden - Benjamin Swan (D - Springfield)
12th Hampden - Gale D. Candaras (D - Wilbraham)

Hampshire

1st Hampshire - Peter V. Kocot (D - Northampton)
2nd Hampshire - John W. Scibak (D - South Hadley)
3rd Hampshire - Ellen Story (D - Amherst)

Middlesex

1st Middlesex - Robert S. Hargraves (R - Groton)
2nd Middlesex - Geoffrey D. Hall (D - Westford)
3rd Middlesex - Patricia A. Walrath (D - Stow)
4th Middlesex - Stephen P. LeDuc (D - Marlborough)
5th Middlesex - David Paul Linsky (D - Natick)
6th Middlesex - Deborah D. Blumer (D - Framingham)
7th Middlesex - Karen Spilka (D - Ashland)
8th Middlesex - Paul J. P. Loscocco (R - Holliston)
9th Middlesex - Thomas M. Stanley (D - Waltham)
10th Middlesex - Peter J. Koutoujian (D - Newton)
11th Middlesex - Kay Khan (D - Newton)
12th Middlesex - Ruth B. Balser (D - Newton)
13th Middlesex - Susan W. Pope (R - Wayland)
14th Middlesex - Cory Atkins (D - Concord)
15th Middlesex - Jay R. Kaufman (D - Lexington)
16th Middlesex - Thomas A. Golden, Jr. (D - Lowell)
17th Middlesex - David M. Nangle (D - Lowell)
18th Middlesex - Kevin J. Murphy (D - Lowell)
19th Middlesex - James R. Miceli (D - Wilmington)
20th Middlesex - Bradley H. Jones, Jr. (R - North Reading)
21st Middlesex - Charles A. Murphy (D - Burlington)
22nd Middlesex - William G. Greene, Jr. (D - Billerica)
23rd Middlesex - J. James Marzilli, Jr. (D - Arlington)
24th Middlesex - Anne M. Paulsen (D - Belmont)
25th Middlesex - Alice K. Wolf (D - Cambridge)
26th Middlesex - Timothy J. Toomey, Jr. (D - Cambridge)
27th Middlesex - vacant - special election Jan 10 / Feb 7
28th Middlesex - Edward G. Connolly (D - Everett)
29th Middlesex - Rachel Kaprielian (D - Watertown)
30th Middlesex - Carol A. Donovan (D - Woburn)
31st Middlesex - Paul C. Casey (D - Winchester)
32nd Middlesex - Michael E. Festa (D - Melrose)
33rd Middlesex - Christopher G. Fallon (D - Malden)
34th Middlesex - Vincent P. Ciampa (D - Somerville)
35th Middlesex - Paul J. Donato (D - Medford)
36th Middlesex - Colleen M. Garry (D - Dracut)
37th Middlesex - James B. Eldridge (D - Acton)

Norfolk

1st Norfolk - Bruce J. Ayers (D - Quincy)
2nd Norfolk - A. Stephen Tobin (D - Quincy)
3rd Norfolk - Ronald Mariano (D - Quincy)
4th Norfolk - James M. Murphy (D - Weymouth)
5th Norfolk - Joseph C. Sullivan (D - Braintree)
6th Norfolk - William C. Galvin (D - Canton)
7th Norfolk - Walter F. Timilty (D - Milton)
8th Norfolk - Louis L. Kafka (D - Sharon)
9th Norfolk - Richard J. Ross (R - Wrentham)
10th Norfolk - James E. Vallee (D - Franklin)
11th Norfolk - Robert K. Coughlin (D - Dedham)
12th Norfolk - John H. Rogers (D - Norwood)
13th Norfolk - Lida E. Harkins (D - Needham)
14th Norfolk - Alice Hanlon Peisch (D - Wellesley)
15th Norfolk - Frank I. Smizik (D - Brookline)

Plymouth

1st Plymouth - Viriato Manuel deMacedo (R - Plymouth)
2nd Plymouth - Susan Williams Gifford (R - Wareham)
3rd Plymouth - Garrett J. Bradley (D - Hingham)
4th Plymouth - Frank M. Hynes (D - Marshfield)
5th Plymouth - Robert J. Nyman (D - Hanover)
6th Plymouth - Daniel K. Webster (R - Hanson)
7th Plymouth - Kathleen M. Teahan (D - Whitman)
8th Plymouth - David L. Flynn (D - Bridgewater)
9th Plymouth - Thomas P. Kennedy (D - Brockton)
10th Plymouth - Christine E. Canavan (D - Brockton
11th Plymouth - Geraldine Creedon (D - Brockton)
12th Plymouth - Thomas J. O.Brien (D - Kingston)

Suffolk

1st Suffolk - Anthony Petruccelli (D - Boston)
2nd Suffolk - Eugene L. O.Flaherty (D - Chelsea)
3rd Suffolk - Salvatore F. DiMasi (D - Boston) *Speaker of the House
4th Suffolk - Brian P. Wallace (D - Boston)
5th Suffolk - Marie P. St. Fleur (D - Boston)
6th Suffolk - Shirley Owens-Hicks (D - Boston)
7th Suffolk - Gloria L. Fox (D - Boston)
8th Suffolk - Paul C. Demakis (D - Boston)
9th Suffolk - Byron Rushing (D - Boston)
10th Suffolk - Michael F. Rush (D - Boston)
11th Suffolk - Elizabeth A. Malia (D - Boston)
12th Suffolk - Linda Dorcena Forry (D - Boston)
13th Suffolk - Martin J. Walsh (D - Boston)
14th Suffolk - Angelo M. Scaccia (D - Boston)
15th Suffolk - Jeffrey Sanchez (D - Boston)
16th Suffolk - Kathi-Anne Reinstein (D - Revere)
17th Suffolk - Kevin G. Honan (D - Boston)
18th Suffolk - Michael Moran (D - Boston)
19th Suffolk - Robert A. DeLeo (D - Winthrop)

Worcester

1st Worcester - Lewis G. Evangelidis (R - Holden)
2nd Worcester - vacant - special election Jan 10 / Feb 7
3rd Worcester - Emile J. Goguen (D - Fitchburg)
4th Worcester - Mary Jane Simmons (D - Leominster)
5th Worcester - Anne M. Gobi (D - Spencer)
6th Worcester - Mark J. Carron (D - Southbridge)
7th Worcester - Paul K. Frost (R - Auburn)
8th Worcester - Paul Kujawski (D - Webster)
9th Worcester - George N. Peterson, Jr. (R - Grafton)
10th Worcester - Marie J. Parente (D - Milford)
11th Worcester - Karyn E. Polito (R - Shrewsbury)
12th Worcester - Harold P. Naughton, Jr. (D - Clinton)
13th Worcester - Robert P. Spellane (D - Worcester)
14th Worcester - James B. Leary (D - Worcester)
15th Worcester - Vincent A. Pedone (D - Worcester)
16th Worcester - John P. Fresolo (D - Worcester)
17th Worcester - John J. Binienda (D - Worcester)
18th Worcester - Jennifer M. Callahan (D - Sutton)

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