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$2.3 billion state budget deficit

Description: Richard Voke announces projected budget deficit of $2.3 billion. Reps. Reinstein, Miceli, DeFilippi and Barbara Gray at angry Ways & Means hearing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/09/1990

A day in the budget debate

Description: Housing activists go to Massachusetts House Ways and Means Chairman Thomas Finneran's office to 'evict' him because of his budget proposal. The protesters are arrested. Human service advocates and religious leaders also hold separate protests. The house is debating local aid and tax increases. Rep. Thomas Finneran talks about his budget in the House Chambers. Interviews with Reps. John McDonough and Stanley Rosenberg suggesting new taxes are needed to support services.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/21/1991

Abortion amendment debate

Description: Constitutional Convention begins debate on abortion amendment; adjourns without vote. Bulger bangs gavel. Sen. Lois Pines, Rep. David Cohen. Senators parade to House chamber for joint session.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/11/1990

Assault weapons ban

Description: House debates and passes ban on assault weapons in Boston. Reps. James Brett, Richard Moore, Charles Flaherty at podium. Variety of guns displayed on table.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/02/1989

B-roll from Dukakis presidential run

Description: B-roll from Dukakis '88 presidential campaign. With Lloyd Bentsen in Mass. House chamber. With hard hats in Illinois. At party for handicapped children. Iowa tv coverage of Mass. farming.@ Employment Connections
Collection: Ten O'Clock News

Barbara Anderson vérité

Description: Barbara Anderson vérité: she works the State House hallways lobbying for no tax increase in budget. Pay telephone. Door to House chamber.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/14/1989

Budget debate opens

Description: As budget debate opens, Richard Voke appeals to House members to approve spending cuts proposed by Ways & Means. Steven Pierce. Door to House chamber. Keverian bangs gavel, calls House to order.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/06/1989

Flaherty in the House

Description: Rep. Charles Flaherty's inaugural address as House Speaker. Flaherty debates from the floor for the first time since becoming Speaker. Flaherty at the rostrum and in the well.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/02/1991

Gay Rights Bill

Description: Massachusetts State Representatives speak pro and con on gay rights anti-discrimination bill. Reps. Salvatore Dimasi, Roger Goyette, Susan Schur, Philip Travis, Eleanor Myerson, James Miceli, Francis Woodward, Thomas Vallely, Willian Robinson. The debate focuses mainly on discrimination against gay people in the workplace, but also touches on AIDS and gay foster care rights.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/23/1985

Gov. King's budget address

Description: Gov. Edward King's first budget address for FY80 before joint legislative session in House chamber (Constitutional Convention). Speaker Tom McGee forcefully bangs gavel. Senate President William Bulger announces entrance of the governor and Lt. Gov. Tom O'Neill. Rep. Robert Larkin, James Collins, Chester Atkins. Increase in local aid. “The people of Massachusetts do not want and do not deserve an ever expanding, ever more expensive state government. They do deserve and obviously want a government that provides the essential services they need at a price they can afford.” Goals: 1) reduce property taxes and stimulate economic development; 2) provide essential services to those most in need of care; 3) initiate improved management techniques in daily government operations. Man smoking pipe. King refers to high technology social contract (reducing individual taxes to level found in competing industrial states in exchange for job creation).
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/01/1979