Key Issues
Priorities for Harriett include:
- Quality of Life Issues
- Harriett has focused on open space preservation and development local infrastructure.
- Harriett has focused on open space preservation and development local infrastructure.
- Protecting Taxpayer Dollars
- Harriett believes that state government should offer a hand-up—not give a hand-out. She believes that every dollar spent should provide a dollar’s worth of benefit to state residents.
- Harriett believes that state government should offer a hand-up—not give a hand-out. She believes that every dollar spent should provide a dollar’s worth of benefit to state residents.
Education
- Harriett thinks that funding of K-12 education is one of state government's most important investments. Her involvement in education doesn’t end there, though. She is a regular participant in school activities in the five school systems that she represents.
- Harriett thinks that funding of K-12 education is one of state government's most important investments. Her involvement in education doesn’t end there, though. She is a regular participant in school activities in the five school systems that she represents.
Chapter 40-B Reform
- Harriett was a major contributor to Governor Mitt Romney's Chapter 40-B Task Force report (PDF file).
- Harriett and her staff wrote the "Legislator's Introduction to Chapter 40-B" (PDF file).
- Harriett was a major contributor to Governor Mitt Romney's Chapter 40-B Task Force report (PDF file).
Medicaid Reform
- Harriett's policy paper, "Re-engineering Medicaid" (PDF file), won the 2003 Better Government Competition award from the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy. The paper laid out some of the earliest principles of health care reform.
- Harriett's policy paper, "Re-engineering Medicaid" (PDF file), won the 2003 Better Government Competition award from the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy. The paper laid out some of the earliest principles of health care reform.
- Harriett and staff wrote the comprehensive manual "A House Member's Guide to Health Care 2003."
- Housing Policy
- Harriett and her staff authored one town’s affordable housing plan and consulted on several others. The plans provided communities with road maps for creating workforce housing and avoiding Chapter 40-B problems.