# Mike Barrett

Mike Barrett is a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate for district Third Middlesex.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Massachusetts Senate, district Third Middlesex
- Serving since: 2013-01-02
- Current term: MA 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/2cf31d35-c3e8-4627-a534-08dce38078db

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/2cf31d35-c3e8-4627-a534-08dce38078db (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

0% of the 51 bills Barrett sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom tenth of the Massachusetts Senate.

## What Barrett says (MA 2025–26 session)

9 classified statements: 9 posts on X. Each rate is the share of statements with the label, against the State Senate Democrats average; rank 1 is the highest rate.

| Label | Barrett | State Senate Democrats average | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal attacks | 0.0% | 2.4% | 249 of 330 |
| Policy criticism | 0.0% | 10.3% | 304 of 330 |
| Policy discussion | 22.2% | 42.9% | 279 of 330 |
| Bipartisanship | 0.0% | 3.4% | 294 of 330 |
| Credit claiming | 0.0% | 16.1% | 322 of 330 |
| Extreme labels | 0.0% | 0.8% | 228 of 330 |

Most discussed policy areas: Energy 50% (State Senate Democrats 4.1%); Government Operations and Politics 50% (State Senate Democrats 14%); Science, Technology, Communications 50% (State Senate Democrats 2.7%); Agriculture and Food 0% (State Senate Democrats 4.7%); Armed Forces and National Security 0% (State Senate Democrats 3.5%).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.81 (standard error 0.03), from 785 donors and 0 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 28% of State Senate Democrats score lower.

## Legislation (MA 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 51 bills: 50 reached committee, 0 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 143. 0.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Massachusetts Senate 2.0%; rank 37 of 40).

Recent sponsored bills:

- S 2860: Amendment S.2860 (introduced, 2025-12-11) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/S2860/
- SD 3238: An Act to exempt municipal solar facilities from regional limits on net metering (in committee, 2026-04-01) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/SD3238/
- SD 3237: An Act to remove the 10 MW net metering cap on each municipality (in committee, 2026-04-01) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/SD3237/
- SD 3240: An Act to add multi-family housing constructed in compliance with the state’s transit-oriented development statute to the list of facilities exempted from the… (in committee, 2026-04-01) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/SD3240/
- SD 3114: An Act authorizing remote participation at town meeting (in committee, 2025-08-21) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/SD3114/
- SD 2250: An Act requiring universal changing stations in public buildings (in committee, 2025-03-10) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/SD2250/
- SD 1537: An Act clarifying the role of governor’s councillor on the ballot (in committee, 2025-03-10) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/SD1537/
- SD 1636: An Act to require closed captioning in telecommunications in public areas (in committee, 2025-03-10) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/SD1636/
- SD 2365: An Act exempting residential electric vehicle chargers from the sales tax (in committee, 2025-02-27) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/SD2365/
- S 1923: An Act to repeal the sales tax exemption for aircraft (in committee, 2026-07-13) https://openstates.org/ma/bills/194th/S1923/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $41.8K (State Senate Democrats median $55.5K). 99% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Recent statements

Newest first. Posts on X are listed by date and link only.

- 2026-10-23 · Post on X · https://x.com/senatorbarrett/status/2113653628460503398
- 2026-09-29 · Post on X · https://x.com/senatorbarrett/status/2104971524293726307
- 2026-09-29 · Post on X · https://x.com/senatorbarrett/status/2104971526583750762
- 2026-09-08 · Post on X · https://x.com/senatorbarrett/status/2097314300436127753
- 2026-09-08 · Post on X · https://x.com/senatorbarrett/status/2097314302638088346
- 2026-09-08 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/senatorbarrett/status/2097314304475177430
- 2026-09-08 · Post on X · https://x.com/senatorbarrett/status/2097314306333253946
- 2026-08-31 · Post on X · https://x.com/senatorbarrett/status/2094473276454051889
- 2025-07-11 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/senatorbarrett/status/1943660632101863594

## Links

- Official site: https://malegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/MJB0
- Campaign site: https://senatormikebarrett.com/
- X: https://x.com/senatorbarrett
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/statesenatormikebarrett
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senatorbarrett/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/senatormikebarrett/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/2cf31d35-c3e8-4627-a534-08dce38078db