A bill supported by members of both chambers of Congress is calling on the Trump administration to recognize reproductive rights as human rights. The bill, HR 7228, demands that the State...
Congresswoman Clark, Senator Menendez, Colleagues Announce Bicameral Reproductive Rights are Human Rights Act
Legislation would reverse Trump Admin's baffling and harmful elimination of women's reproductive rights from annual human rights report MARCH 7, 2019- Washington, D.C.- Today, ahead of International...
Congresswoman Clark’s Statement on House Resolution 183
"In January, we swore into office the most diverse Congress in our nation's history, and that diversity is our greatest strength. While we all have different lived experiences, we are united in our...
Rewire News: Here’s How Democrats Want to Classify Reproductive Rights as Human Rights
Congressional Democrats introduced legislation on Thursday that would classify reproductive rights as human rights and require the U.S. State Department to include access to reproductive health care...
Mass Live: US Rep. Katherine Clark revamps push to mandate presidents disclose business interests
With her previous proposals seeing little-to-no action in the last GOP-controlled Congress, U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark reintroduced a bill this week that would require presidents to disclose and...
Clark, Jayapal introduce bill to require president and vice president to fully divest personal financial conflicts of interest
Washington, DC - Today, Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Congresswoman Katherine Clark and Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal introduced a bill in the...
Statement on the Passage of the Bipartisan Background Check Act
"For too long, a grisly ritual played out in the House: a shooting, a moment of silence, then inaction. Today is a new day in Congress. In less than two months, the House Democratic Majority...
Wall Street Journal: House Looks to Pass Gun-Control Measure Expanding Background Checks
WASHINGTON—The House prepared Wednesday to pass an expansion of background checks for nearly all gun sales, a cornerstone of the legislative agenda newly empowered Democrats pledged to enact, but...
Washington Post: House pushes ahead on gun control, backs expansion of background checks
The House on Wednesday passed a bill expanding federal background checks for gun purchases and transfers, the first major new firearm restrictions to advance in a generation.The Bipartisan...
AP: WomenHeart Urges Congress to Prioritize Research on Heart Disease in Women
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 26, 2019--WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease hosted a briefing for Members of Congress to highlight progress made in including women in...
WBUR: U.S. House To Vote On Revoking Trump’s National Emergency
Rep. Katherine Clark, who represents Massachusetts' 5th District, talked to Morning Edition about Tuesday's vote in the U.S. House to overturn Trump's emergency...
Insider: ‘Accomplices in oppression’: 14 new members of Congress demand Apple and Google remove Saudi government app that lets men control women’s movements
14 members of Congress have written to Apple and Google to demand that they stop hosting a Saudi government app which men can use to control and monitor women.The group of Democratic lawmakers says...
MassLive: Mass. Democrats back US House measure to block President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration
Members of Massachusetts' congressional delegation signed on Friday to a U.S. House resolution that seeks to block President Donald Trump's recent declaration of a national emergency at the southern...
Roll Call: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s call for a ‘living wage’ starts in her office
Claudia Pagon Marchena, like so many Hill staffers, moonlighted at a Washington, D.C., eatery to pay her rent until she took a job with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She celebrated her last...
Bloomberg: Baystate Business: Martha Stewart, Parexel, Clark (Radio)
On the Wednesday, February 6 edition of Bloomberg Baystate Business we spoke with Bill Strazzullo of Bell Curve Trading about the markets. We re-aired a portion of the Martha Stewart interview from...
Insider: People are leaving scathing App Store and Google Play reviews to discredit a Saudi government app that lets men control where women travel
People are leaving damning one-star reviews for a Saudi government app on Google Play and the App Store, because it helps men restrict where women go outside the country.Absher is mostly a...
CBS Boston: ‘You Can’t Build Your Stupid Wall’: Mass. Congressional Delegation Reacts To Trump’s National Emergency
BOSTON (CBS) — The Massachusetts Congressional delegation is slamming President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency to fund the construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico...
Politico: Warren urges DeVos to redo ‘toothless’ school safety report
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) Thursday urged Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to get her school safety commission back together and make another try,...
Statement in response to President Trump’s Emergency Declaration
The President's declaration of a national emergency is a sham. There is no national security emergency at our southern border. The crisis we face is a humanitarian one, that will not be solved by a...
Business Insider: Google joins Apple in probing Saudi app that lets men control where women travel, as pressure piles on the tech giants to kill the service
Google has joined Apple in promising to investigate a Saudi app that lets men control women's travel, as pressure from rights groups and international lawmakers builds on the tech giants.Google will...