Amid military escalation in Gaza, Mass. lawmakers traveled to Israel on trip funded by Israeli government
Boston Globe - September 26, 2025
Rausch, a Needham Democrat, said the trip itself was “extremely emotional and extremely powerful.” But she said she also was disappointed lawmakers did not have the opportunity to question Netanyahu or meet with members of the opposition party in the Knesset, Israel’s legislative body.
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State House News Service - September 9, 2025
Citing shifting gender and family dynamics, Rausch argued that diaper stations are needed beyond women’s restrooms. “Current practice is forcing parents and caretakers who don’t use the women’s restroom to change their baby’s diapers on a floor, sometimes in the dirty men’s bathroom on the floor, or wait to change a soiled diaper.”
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The Plastic Pandemic
Edible Boston - June 3, 2025
While working on this bill, Rausch and her colleagues collected the plastic trash that accumulated in their office, demonstrating the mountains of waste generated on a daily basis. There was so much plastic, when her children came into the State House during a day off from school, they “built a kindergarten-sized human completely out of plastic trash,” she recalls. “We called him Plastic Pete.” Rausch brought Plastic Pete out to the floor of the Senate and to a press conference in advance of a debate on the bill, as a “warning” to her fellow policymakers about its necessity. “I think people don’t want to become Plastic Pete,” Rausch says.
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Needham Local - July 3, 2025
“Budget week is always a really intense, but also fun time in the Senate because we’re all together, and we’re all striving to achieve a common goal," said Rausch. She condemned the Trump administration’s “big beautiful bill,” which she has dubbed the “barftastic blunder bill,” and described as “a horrible stain on the history of this country."
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Thank You From The Medfield Kingsbury Pond Grist Mill Committee
Medfield Patch - June 22, 2025
“We are incredibly grateful to Congressman Auchincloss, Senator Rausch, and all those who have helped preserve this cornerstone of Medfield’s heritage,” said Dick Judge, chair of the Kingsbury Pond Grist Mill Committee. “Preserving the mill has been a true community effort over many, many years.”