Description: Charles Flaherty becomes House speaker. Richard Voke, Byron Rushing, Mark Roosevelt comment. William Bulger returns as Senate president. Michael Barrett, David Locke, and James Jajuga comment.
Description: Republicans believe state Energy Department should be eliminated because the crisis that gave rise to it no longer exists. Lucile Hicks, Sharon Pollard.
Description: Footage of State House interior renovation. Construction workers laying plywood, sawing, hammering. Close shots of tools on construction site; interior structure; people at work.
Description: State House doorkeepers posted in legislators' offices for security often earn more than the people they guard. Rep. Greg Sullivan is disgruntled about such patronage jobs.
Description: State House exteriors in summer. Several views including looking up Park Street. Straight on and angle perspectives. Golden dome, cupola. Henry Cabot Lodge statue.
Description: State House interiors. Marble hallways.Door to House of Representatives chamber, gold letters on transom. People enter, exit. Senate door. Speaker's office (Thomas W. McGee). Doorman / sergeant at arms.
Description: Massachusetts State House interiors. Senate door with sign on transom. House of Representatives door. House chamber empty; wide shot of rows of seats, podium, balcony. Reporter and camera operator discuss shots off camera. Several takes of reporter standup on the new 1979 state congress, specifically the power of Speaker Tom McGee.
Description: Howie Carr asks State House superintendent to justify costly installation of marble floor and renovation of parking garage. Rep. Gregory Sullivan. Cement mixer and trowel spreading cement.