Kelly Garrity, “‘The bloodless murder of legislation.’ After promising more transparency, Mass. Legislature still killing bills without votes.,” Boston Globe, May 5, 2026.
Public committee votes are a form of holding lawmakers accountable, allowing residents and advocates the ability to thank those who supported their preferred legislation and “call to complain if they voted the way you didn’t want them to,” said Jonathan Cohn, policy director of Progressive Massachusetts.
The pocket study, he said, maintains the Legislature’s “old style.”
“The bloodless murder of legislation,” he said, “where things die, and everybody has clean hands.”
