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Mass. House members deliver farewell remarks as multiple representatives retire
Summary
Several Massachusetts House members gave farewell speeches Dec. 16, thanking colleagues and staff and highlighting accomplishments ranging from mental-health parity to regional infrastructure; members also paid tribute to long-serving Clerk Stephen T. James.
Dozens of members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives offered farewell remarks on Dec. 16 as colleagues prepare to leave the chamber.
Representative Barrows of Mansfield opened the sequence of remembrances, thanking mentors, staff and municipal partners and citing local projects he said he helped advance, including MBTA station work in Foxborough, redevelopment of the Foxborough State Hospital site, a regional 911 dispatch center and the start of construction on about 200 units of affordable housing with a 70% local preference. Barrows said the work was a team effort and closed by noting bipartisan cooperation in the chamber.
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