Description: Sen. Brian Lees, member of Senate Ethics Committee, comments on serving the public interest and looking at extent of outside income earned by senators. Font display of senators' large earnings.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/02/1989
Description: Patricia McGovern presents Senate Ways and Means budget for FY90, calling it "marginally balanced." It includes no new taxes. Voke, Keverian, Bulger, Jim Braude, Barbara Anderson.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/01/1989
Description: Hospitals are desperate to collect promised funds from the state. Dukakis says new revenues are necessary to meet the obligation. Bulger apologizes for lack of money.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/05/1989
Description: Senate Ways and Means hearing on Medicaid budget problems. Patricia McGovern talks tough. Carmen Canino-Siegrist, public welfare commissioner. Philip Johnston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/18/1989
Description: State senators are reluctant to point finger at William Bulger for his questionable ethics because theirs is a body of decorum and gentility. Richard Kraus, David Locke, Pat McGovern, Paul Cellucci.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/25/1989
Description: State Senate votes to admit television cameras to cover proceedings in the chamber. Gavel to Gavel control room. Sign over Senate door. Lois Pines, Walter Boverini, Michael Barrett.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/03/1989
Description: Corrections officials appeal to Senate Ways & Means to provide more funding for prisons to avert crisis. Patricia McGovern, Michael Fair, Sheriffs Michael Flynn, Robert Rufo, Clifford Marshall.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/11/1989
Description: Richard Manley of Mass. Taxpayers Foundation blames legislature for state fiscal crisis because each year until FY90 they approved higher budget than governor proposed. Rep. Gregory Sullivan.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/20/1989
Description: At legislative hearing, anti-abortion lobbyists argue for ban on abortion for purpose of sex selection. Abortion clinic footage. Rep. Marie Parente.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/13/1989
Description: Shannon is unhappy with Keverian because of funding cut for attorney general's office. Keverian is upset with Shannon because of ethics legislation and implication of wrongdoing in Speaker's office.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/16/1989