Ways and Means Committee, Massachusetts State Senate

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The Ways and Means Committee is a standing committee of the Massachusetts State Senate.

Function

According to the committee's website, "It shall be the duty of the committee on Ways and Means to consider all matters relating to the finances of the Commonwealth and such other matters as may be referred thereto".

Committee members

2013-2014

The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2013 legislative session.

Ways and Means Members, 2013
Democratic members (15)	Republican members (2)
• Stephen Brewer, Chair	• Michael Knapik
• Jennifer Flanagan, Vice-chair	• Richard Ross
• Sal DiDomenico, Vice-chair
• Gale Candaras
• Eileen Donoghue
• Benjamin Downing
• Patricia Jehlen
• Brian Joyce
• Thomas Kennedy
• Thomas McGee
• Michael Moore
• Marc Pacheco
• Anthony Petruccelli
• Michael Rush
• James Timilty

2011-2012

The following table describes committee membership for the 2011 legislative session.

Ways and Means Members, 2011
Democratic members (15)	Republican members (2)
• Stephen Brewer, Chair	• Michael Knapik
• Steven Baddour, Vice-chair	• Richard Ross
• Jennifer Flanagan, Vice-chair
• Michael Moore
• Richard T. Moore
• Benjamin Downing
• Cynthia Stone Creem
• Gale D. Candaras
• Karen Spilka
• Marc Pacheco
• Thomas McGee
• Brian Joyce
• Anthony Petruccelli
• Patricia D. Jehlen
• Thomas Kennedy

External links

• Massachusetts Senate Standing Committees