To maintain contact with his constituency, Barrios meets with his neighborhood advisory committee and his informal cabinet.
"They keep me in touch with what
is going on. They also help me to define what I'm going to work on," he says.
An Accomplished Year
In the past year, Barrios was instrumental in a bill for interpreter services in hospital emergency rooms, an issue that affects many of Cambridge's immigrant residents. The bill was one of three health care bills to come out of the House this year.
His successes are many, but Barrios has also hit a few roadblocks.
He introduced a bill to increase the wage of human service workers to a "living wage" of $10.50, in order to maintain a high quality of service to people who need home health care.
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