Senate President Karen Spilka's Opening Remarks to the 192nd General Court

“As we begin our work this Senate session, we do so against a backdrop of national hardship – and those who would seek to divide us along political, ideological or racial lines. At this crucial, precarious time, however, there is no room in government for ‘us’ against ‘them.’ Here in Massachusetts, at least, there is no ‘them,’ there is only ‘us.’ And we will all rise and fall together.

So as I stand here today with deep gratitude, once again, for the opportunity to lead the Senate and to serve every single resident of the Commonwealth, I also charge us all with the task of doing our jobs as legislators with compassion, seriousness, dedication, and, most of all, with humility. Our residents are looking to us to do the jobs they sent us here to do. And I, for one, am eager to get to work.”

Read Senate President Spilka’s full remarks to the Senate here. Watch the the 192nd Session of the General Court’s Swearing In of Senators Ceremony, including remarks from President Spilka, here.