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Issue Position: Demanding Accountability from Government

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2014
Issues: Unemployed and Low-Income Minors and Children Entitlements and the Safety Net Health Insurance

Just as you and I are responsible for the things we do, the way we live our lives, and the way we spend our money, so must our government. My position on the House Post Audit and Oversight Committee provides me the ability to hold government accountable for you:

Improving oversight and accountability of educational collaboratives.
Investigating the operations of, pushing for improvements, and tightening controls in various state agencies and other organizations:

EBT system (Welfare)
Department of Children and Families
Unemployment Insurance System
Mass Health and the Affordable Care Act implementation
Voted to increase oversight on the compounding pharmaceutical industry in the wake of a deadly meningitis outbreak from a Framingham facility. (Vote #229, H3672)
Co-sponsored legislation to eliminate fraud and abuse in the State's various benefit systems. (H109, 132, 133, 134)
Authored legislation holding non-profits accountable for how they spend taxpayer money. (H1714)


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