Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Session (Full Formal without Calendar) Jan 7th, 2026

Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting

Key Moments

  • Joan Lovely — Moved that the rules be suspended.
  • Joan Lovely — Moved to suspend the rules and was appointed to the committee.
  • Joan Lovely — Thanked for work on the committee and discharged from duties.
  • Joan Lovely — Reported for the committee.
  • John Keenan — Senator John Keenan of Norfolk is appointed to the committee, later thanked for his work and discharged from committee duties, and then moves to suspend Senate Rule 36 so the matter can be considered forthwith.
  • Julian Cyr — Appointed to the committee.
  • Peter Durant — Thanked for work on the committee and discharged from duties.
  • Peter Durant — Appointed to the committee.
  • Peter Durant — Named in the opening list of senators associated with the motion.
  • William Brownsberger — Presented an order to inform the House that the Senate is assembled and ready to do business.
  • Rebecca Rausch — Senator Rebecca Rausch moved to suspend the rules so the Senate could consider the order forthwith, including the journal-printing order, as part of the same procedural action.
  • Paul Feeney — Appointed to the committee.
  • Cindy Friedman — Appointed to the committee.
  • William Driscoll — Offered an order to adjourn and meet again tomorrow at 11:00 a.m.
  • Bruce Tarr — Referenced as the Senator from Massachusetts and Middlesex.
  • Patrick O'Connor — Patrick O'Connor is mentioned during the opening procedural listing of senators, identified as the Senator from Plymouth and Norfolk. The surrounding transcript appears to contain garbled name references as part of the same roll-call or introductory sequence before the motion.
  • Ryan Fattman — Ryan Fattman is mentioned consecutively as the senator from Worcester and Hampshire/Worcester and Norfolk in the context of the motion, including the motion made in honor of Charles D. Baker III.
  • Michael Rush — Identified as making the motion to adjourn.
  • Joan Lovely — Presented an order and moved to suspend the rules.