Mass. House speaker outlines goals for session

Published January 29, 2014 9:25pm ET



BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo outlined a legislative agenda Wednesday that included a minimum wage increase, stricter gun controls and a bill to address domestic violence.

DeLeo, a Winthrop Democrat, also said in a speech to the chamber that the House would take action to strengthen the state Department of Children and Families after social workers lost track of Jeremiah Oliver, a 5-year-old Fitchburg boy who is missing and feared dead.

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