Dear Neighbor,
I’m grateful for the opportunity to serve the people of Medford, Somerville, Winchester and Cambridge as state senator.
This website is one of many ways I try to stay in touch. Of course, you’re also welcome to call, email, or visit my staff and me at the State House, or make an appointment to get together in the district.
Dear Neighbor,
A lot has happened this fall, even while we haven't usually had formal sessions except for one to pass the climate and economic development bills. (You can read my notes on some highlights here, along with "what's next.")
I don't usually include stories or pictures from events in newsletters. But I have a lot of photos and thought I'd share some to give you glimpses of where I've been this fall.
https://mailchi.mp/electpatjehlen/gallery-7227454?e=2a1a9beef5
Dear Neighbor,
I am Senate chair of the Labor and Workforce Development Committee and the Committee on Elder Affairs. Each of those committees produced a major bill this session which passed the legislature and was signed, or is about to be signed, into law.
In an earlier newsletter, I wrote about the Labor Committee's wage transparency law.
The second bill, about long-term care facilities for older people and people with disabilities, hadn’t passed by the time formal sessions ended on July 31. In the informal sessions that continue after that, any one legislator could object and stop the bill. Despite that, I am happy and relieved to be able to report that the long-term care bill passed the legislature last Thursday.
