Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although he won the chair after a clash with fellow Democrats, many of Birmingham's colleagues say that his rapid ascendance is a tribute to his new approach to doing business in the State House...
State Senator Mark C. Montigny (D-New Bedford) says that Birmingham has changed the way things are done in the Senate...
Unlike many who have run the Senate over the past 300 years, Birmingham does not necessarily need to craft every piece of legislation that comes out of committee...
...respect the committee structure and it is not personally necessary for me to have my thumb-print on every page of every bill that gets passed," Birmingham says...
...Birmingham has crafted this new power structure by delegating considerable authority to the committee chairs which he appointed upon taking office...