Clark highlights American Rescue Plan funding, Calls for passage of President Biden's Build Back Better agenda MALDEN, MA - Today, Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (MA-5) joined...
PHOTO RELEASE: Clark Visits Framingham to Highlight Over $1.1 Billion in Funding for MA Bridges
Last week, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced that the first round of funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act's $27.5 billion...
Assistant Speaker Clark Announces Winners for 2021 Congressional App Challenge
This year's winner is Weston's Theodore Luu and his app "Level Up"MALDEN, MA - Today, Assistant Speaker Clark (MA-5) announced her district's winners of the annual Congressional App...
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...
Assistant Speaker Clark, Massachusetts Congressional Delegation Applaud First Round of Bridge Formula Funding from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Nine percent of Massachusetts bridges are currently classified as structurally deficientWASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) this...
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...
Assistant Speaker Clark Votes to Protect and Strengthen the Right to Vote
House passed the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act which combines key elements of the House-passed John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Senate's Freedom to Vote Act WASHINGTON,...
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...
ICYMI: Assistant Speaker Clark Pens Op-Ed About the Politics of Going Gray
"The inequities that are built into our economy are born out of the same systems of misogyny that tell us how to wear our hair," writes Clark WASHINGTON, D.C. - In case you missed it,...
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...
Axios: Top House Democrat pushes “isolation boxes” for unmasked colleagues
Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) on Tuesday called for lawmakers who repeatedly defy the House chamber mask requirement to be restricted from the House floor.Why it matters: The demand comes amid a...
Huffington Post: Top House Democrat Wants Maskless Lawmakers Put In ‘Isolation Boxes’
House Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) wants lawmakers who ignore the chamber's mask mandate banished to "isolation boxes" in a gallery.Fines for flouting the mask measure have "proven...
Revere Journal: The Way to Combat the Horror of January 6 Is to Abolish the Filibuster
In 1787, upon exiting the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of people who asked him what kind of government the delegates had created. His answer: "A republic,...