Mike, wife Nancy and daughters Lily and Rivka

Mike Barrett is State Senator for nine Massachusetts communities — Bedford, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Lincoln, Waltham, Weston, and large parts of Lexington and Sudbury.

Mike serves as Senate Chair of the Legislature’s Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy. The committee’s jurisdiction covers everything from cell phones to alternative energy to public utility reform to carbon pricing.

He previously served as Chair of the Senate Post-Audit and Oversight Committee, a unique body charged with overseeing implementation of all state programs run by the Governor and his appointees. Upon entering the Legislature several years ago, Mike was appointed Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities, an assignment with wide responsibility for programs that help poor women, abused and neglected kids, troubled teens and people with physical and intellectual challenges. Over the course of his term, funding for the Department of Children and Families reversed course and began to climb, after years of steady and injurious decline. Mike also serves as Senate Chair of the Mass. Legislature’s Disabilities Caucus.

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