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Former state representative Kathy Teahan,  a Whitman Democrat who served the House from 1997 to 2007, is  self-publishing a memoir that calls for more legislative transparency.  "Under former House speakers Tom Finneran and Sal DiMasi, Teahan said,  committee votes were based on what leadership wanted, and it was rare to  have any real debate or recorded opposition to a committee vote. It  was the way things were done for such a long time," Teahan said, noting  that there was little attention paid to the process of committee votes  until it started to bother some progressive activists.

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