{"id":8352,"date":"2015-01-21T20:08:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T01:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/?p=8352"},"modified":"2015-02-01T21:50:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T02:50:07","slug":"senator-spilka-named-chair-of-senate-ways-and-means-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2015\/01\/21\/politics\/senator-spilka-named-chair-of-senate-ways-and-means-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Spilka Named Chair of Senate Ways and Means Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8012\" style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131219-KarenSpilka_ChampionforChange_tn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8012\" class=\"wp-image-8012 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131219-KarenSpilka_ChampionforChange_tn.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Spilka\" width=\"175\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Spilka, named Chair of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA - <\/strong>Senate President Stan Rosenberg today announced his leadership team and Committee chairmanship assignments. Senator Karen Spilka <em>(D-Ashland)<\/em> has been named the new Chair of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means, which oversees the budget and finances of the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would first like to thank Senate President Stan Rosenberg for this honor,\u201d said Senator Spilka. \u201cI am grateful and humbled that he would place his confidence, faith and trust in me. This is a responsibility that I do not take lightly. I will work hard every day to help President Rosenberg achieve his ambitious, bold agenda to empower all members, increase transparency and reduce public skepticism about government. I will work hard every day with my colleagues to assist our communities and help raise up all of the residents of Massachusetts. Now, we have a lot of work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8211; Senate President Stan Rosenberg today announced his leadership team and Committee chairmanship assignments. Senator Karen Spilka (D-Ashland) has been named the new Chair of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means, which oversees the budget and finances of the Commonwealth. \u201cI would first like to thank Senate President Stan Rosenberg for this honor,\u201d said&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2015\/01\/21\/politics\/senator-spilka-named-chair-of-senate-ways-and-means-committee\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8375,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352\/revisions\/8375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}