Assistant House Speaker Katherine Clark calls on her fellow lawmakers to follow through on President Biden's pledge and repeal the Hyde Amendment.Assistant House Speaker Katherine Clark (D-MA), a...
UMass Law: For the fourth consecutive year, UMass Law wins award for civil legal aid advocacy in Talk to the Hill
UMass Law has done it again . . . and done it very well. In the law school's seventh year of participating in Talk to the Hill for Civil Legal Aid, UMass Law has received the Highest Participation...
Item Live: Congresswoman Clark Joins Metro North Y for Child Care Roundtable Discussion
PEABODY ― The YMCA of Metro North welcomed Assistant Speaker of the U.S. House Katherine Clark to its "Families at Work" roundtable Thursday to talk about child care.Clark joined YMCA of Metro...
Sentinel & Enterprise: Massachusetts legal advocates, politicians want $6 million more in state legal aid funding
A group of heavy hitters from the state's legal and political arenas is making a push for an additional $6 million in civil legal aid for low-income residents in Massachusetts."We know this pandemic...
Framingham Patch: Clark Highlights $1.1 Billion in Funding for MA Bridges
FRAMINGHAM, MA - Assistant Speaker of the U.S. House Katherine Clark (MA-5) joined Framingham Mayor Charlie Sisitsky and the City Transportation Engineer at the School Street Bridge to highlight the...
Malden Patch: Clark Joins Workers at Personal Protective Equipment Drive
MALDEN, MA - Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (MA-5) joined 1199SEIU United Healthcare workers at a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) drive in Malden, MA to provide adequate medical supplies to...
Framingham Source: Congresswoman Clark & Framingham Mayor Highlight Need For Infrastructure Funding
FRAMINGHAM - It may not even look like a bridge, when you drive over it, but the well-travelled School Street bridge in Saxonville is in desperate need for repairs.The small reinforced, concrete...
MetroWest Daily News: Congresswoman Katherine Clark touts infrastructure funding in Framingham
FRAMINGHAM — As traffic inched along the School Street Bridge over the Cochituate Brook, U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark touted how the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill will fuel bridge repair and...
Milford Daily News: Congresswoman Katherine Clark touts infrastructure funding in Framingham
FRAMINGHAM — As traffic inched along the School Street Bridge over the Cochituate Brook, U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark touted how the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill will fuel bridge repair and...
MassLive: Massachusetts congressional delegation stands ‘in solidarity’ with Jewish community after Texas synagogue attack
The Massachusetts congressional delegation on Thursday denounced rising antisemitism, releasing a brief message to stand in "solidarity with the Jewish community" following the "horrific" Texas...
Ms. Magazine: On Roe Day, Women in Congress Speak Out on Abortion Rights: “We Are Witnessing an All-Out Assault on Reproductive Freedom”
This year, Roe Day doesn't quite feel like a celebration. It's 2022—almost five decades after the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an...
The Hill: Mask rules spark political games and a nasty environment in the House
Rules instituted by Democrats requiring lawmakers to wear masks at the Capitol are being routinely ignored by Republicans, underscoring the scorched-earth environment in the House when it comes to...
The Boston Globe: The Senate failed to pass voting rights legislation. Where does that leave Democrats?
WASHINGTON — As Democrats' hopes to pass landmark voting rights legislation once again died in the Senate this week, Massachusetts Representative Katherine Clark, one of the party's leaders in the...
People Magazine: Assistant House Speaker Katherine Clark Recalls How Letting Her Hair Go Gray Became a ‘Political Issue’
Assistant House Speaker Katherine Clark, a representative from Massachusetts and the fourth-highest ranking member of Congress, made the decision to go gray back in 2015. At the time, her mom was...
Boston.com: ‘We’re gonna fight’: Ed Markey lays out the case for abolishing the filibuster to protect voting rights
Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Cori Bush joined together to host a Twitter Spaces event Jan. 13 calling for abolishing the filibuster in order to protect voting rights.The conversation, which lasted about...
Cambridge Patch: Congresswoman Clark Votes For Freedom To Vote Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (MA-5) voted today to pass the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act. This critical voting rights legislation combines key elements of the...
People Magazine: Top Democrat Wants to Put House Members Who Refuse to Wear a Mask in ‘Isolation Boxes’
A top Democrat in the House of Representatives this week suggested an idea to protect members from possible COVID-19 infections as some colleagues refuse to follow mask requirements in the House...
WBUR: The politics of going gray
It was 2015. I was a new member of Congress, my mom was suffering from Alzheimer's and my dad from a debilitating stroke. My kids were 11, 15, and 17. My...
Forbes: ‘The Assault On Our Democracy Is Alive’: Katherine Clark Argues For Democrats’ Voting Bill
On the House floor, Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) called for passage of Democrats' voting rights bill. Click play to view the video or follow this linkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Zsjei8rME
Washington Post: A top Democrat says lawmakers who ignore mask mandate should sit in ‘isolation boxes’ in House chamber
As the omicron variant threatens the halls of Congress and some GOP lawmakers continue entering the House chamber maskless, despite racking up tens of thousands of dollars in fines, Assistant...