Boston Globe: “A state legislative committee, meanwhile, will hold a hearing next week on a bill to allow Patrick to appoint an interim senator while the special election is held, a signal that Beacon Hill is moving to accommodate Edward Kennedy’s request that Massachusetts maintain two voices in the Senate while voters select his successor. The House and Senate chairmen of the Joint Committee on Election Laws announced they had moved the hearing date from early October to Sept. 9. The bill could come to the floor of both the House and Senate within days after the hearing.”