[1] Representative Rogers currently serves at the Ranking Member of the Joint Committees on Education,[2] Children & Families,[3] and Labor and Workforce Development.

In 1998, he was appointed by former Speaker Thomas Finneran to chair a special legislative committee to reform the adoption laws in Massachusetts so as to accelerate the adoption process and ensure that the best interests of the child are of paramount concern in the process.

In 1999, he was recognized by the Massachusetts Families for Kids, the Legislative Caucus on Foster Care and the Department of Social Services for his efforts as Chairman of that Ad-Hoc Committee on Adoption and as author of the landmark Adoption Law of 1999.

[5] In October 2004, he was chosen to co-chair the legislatively created Commission to Study the Provision of Counsel to Indigent Persons in the Commonwealth which issued a major report, now known as the "Rogers Report,"[6] recommending improvements to the so-called CPCS system in March 2006.

In 2007, he chaired the special House Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect and authored the report First Do No Harm[7] In early 2008, both Rogers and Robert DeLeo put themselves forward as candidates if the state house speakership, held by legally embattled lawmaker Salvatore DiMasi, became vacant.