Christine’s Priorities
A decade of results, and unfinished fights to take to the Senate.
Christine authored the Work and Family Mobility Act : driver's licenses regardless of immigration status, signed into law after a 17-year fight. She is the lead author of the Dignity Not Deportations bill and the cornerstone of the PROTECT Act package, banning state and local police from being deputized as ICE agents. In the Senate, Christine will keep building Massachusetts into the strongest shield state in the country, expanding legal protections for immigrant families, fighting back against federal overreach, and ensuring no community in the 2nd Middlesex lives in fear of a knock on the door.
Immigration
Christine eliminated copays for insulin and inhalers, signed into law in 2025. She expanded ConnectorCare to 500% of the Federal Poverty Line and secured $103 million in savings by authorizing MassHealth to negotiate drug prices directly with manufacturers. She blocked draconian MassHealth cuts across multiple budget cycles and helped draft the landmark 2006 Massachusetts health reform law, the blueprint for the ACA. In the Senate, Christine will fight to bring down the cost of care across the board, expanding price transparency, protecting MassHealth from future cuts, and closing gaps in coverage for mental health and substance use treatment.
Health Care
As Chair of the Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, Christine is leading the nearly $3 billion MassReady Act environmental bond bill. She passed the electric bus mandate - all new MBTA buses electric by 2030, full fleet by 2040, and championed the Green Line Extension, fare-free buses, and environmental justice air quality monitoring. In the Senate, Christine will push to accelerate the state's clean energy transition, invest in climate-resilient infrastructure for Somerville, Medford, Cambridge, and Winchester, and ensure environmental justice communities are not left behind.
Climate & Environment
As a renter herself, Christine supports rent stabilization and the Keep Mass Home ballot initiative. She authored the ADU provision in the Housing Bond Bill, enabling Accessory Dwelling Units statewide, and secured funding to build Clarendon Hill affordable housing. In the Senate, Christine will fight to pass rent stabilization, expand tenant opportunity to purchase, strengthen condo protections, and invest in first-time homebuyer programs to shift Massachusetts closer to treating housing as a human right, not a commodity.
Affordable Housing is a Human Right
Christine championed the Student Opportunity Act, historic school funding reform, and has secured funding for early education programs, YMCA out-of-school-time programming, and the MCPAP mental health pilot in Somerville schools. In the Senate, Christine will fight to fully fund the SOA, expand universal pre-K, invest in vocational-technical education, reform MSBA to prioritize equity in school construction, and protect public schools from privatization.
Education
As Co-Chair of the Task Force on Justice-Involved Women, Christine makes regular visits to MCI Framingham to hear directly from incarcerated women. She secured $100,000 for Brave Behind Bars and filed the trafficking survivor record expungement bill, removing criminal records as barriers for survivors. In the Senate, Christine will push for meaningful decarceration through diversion programs, bail reform, and sentencing reform, and fight for stronger reentry support so people coming home have a real path forward.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
To fund critical services like education, public transportation, and other public services, Massachusetts must raise new forms of revenue. Corporations and the wealthy should pay their fair share in taxes. Christine has been a tireless advocate for raising progressive revenue, and has championed legislation to close corporate loopholes.
Making Corporations Pay their Fair Share
Christine secures $5.5 million annually for the Children's Autism Medicaid Waiver and passed legislation allowing adults with disabilities to stay on parents' insurance beyond age 26. In the Senate, Christine will fight to expand community-based services, increase funding for disability support programs, and ensure that people with disabilities have full access to housing, transportation, and employment.
Disability Rights
Christine filed the trans-inclusive healthcare bill, ensuring health care access for transgender individuals. In her first speech on the House floor, she spoke in support of protections for transgender people in places open to the public. In the Senate, Christine will fight to defend gender-affirming care from legislative attacks, close gaps in insurance coverage for transgender residents, and ensure Massachusetts remains a safe haven for LGBTQ+ families.
LGBTQ+ Protections
As House Chair of the Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators, Christine championed the ROE Act and shield law and is the lead sponsor of legislation protecting abortion care after 24 weeks based on physician judgment. In the Senate, Christine will make Massachusetts a firewall against federal rollbacks on reproductive freedom, expanding access to care, protecting patients and providers, and closing every remaining gap in coverage.
Reproductive Health and Women’s Empowerment
Christine passed Salary Range Transparency, requiring employers to disclose pay ranges in job postings, promotions, and transfers. She increased pay for home care workers and is the lead filer of the GILTI bill to ensure corporations pay their fair share. In the Senate, Christine will keep fighting to close corporate tax loopholes, raise progressive revenue to fund public services, protect union jobs, and secure the right to strike for public employees.
Economic Justice
Christine has secured over $24 million in direct local investments for Somerville and Medford, Clarendon Hill housing, Alewife Brook safety improvements, the Mystic Community Market, LoConte Rink, Blessing of the Bay Park, and dozens more.
Delivering local funding for Somerville, Medford, Cambridge, and Winchester will be a top priority in the Senate and Christine is uniquely qualified to do it. She already knows which committees control the money, which amendments survive conference, and how to fight for every line item. No learning curve, no lost sessions, just a senator who's been delivering for her communities for a decade and will hit the ground running on day one.