Description: Senate Ways and Means chair Patricia McGovern says hurtful measures must be taken to balance state budget.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/28/1991
Description: Interview on set with Paul Tsongas on state fiscal crisis and how talents of business community can be harnessed to solve problem.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/17/1989
Description: Republican initiative to stop pay raise for state legislators.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/29/1987
Description: Mass. Citizen Action and industry lobbyists compete for attention on issue of auto insurance reform, unresolved in legislature. Sen. Sal Albano and Rep. Barbara Hildt. Traffic downtown and in tunnel at night.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/12/1988
Description: House minority leader William Robinson contests veracity of state budget. Administration and finance secretary Frank Keefe says previous surplus funded current expenditures. Robinson wants tax cut.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/29/1984
Description: Representatives who are apparently absent from House chamber manage to have votes recorded in session-end madness. Kevin Poirier, Jonathan Healy, William Nagle.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/17/1987
Description: House members on minority leader Steven Pierce's debate on state budget & Republican damage to Dukakis' fiscal management reputation. Tom McGee, Lucile Hicks, Charles Flaherty, Robert Marsh.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/27/1988
Description: Steven Pierce proposes budget which includes all of Richard Voke's cuts plus more; calls for no new taxes; and relies on layoffs and consolidation. Voke ridicules him. Michael Dukakis comments.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/14/1990
Description: Rep. Steven Pierce introduces House amendment to ban gays from becoming foster parents. File of Donald Babets & David Jean.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/24/1990
Description: Editorial in The Pilot condemns gay rights bill because of threat of AIDS and biblical proscription of homosexuality. Uproar causes postponement of Senate debate.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/09/1987