The fourth-ranking House Democrat, Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (Mass.), urged the sergeant-at-arms on Tuesday to force lawmakers who defy the chamber's mask mandate to cast votes from...
Assistant Speaker Clark Calls for Members Breaking Mask Rules to Attend Floor from Isolation Boxes in House Gallery
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (MA-5) called on the Sergeant at Arms to further protect the Capitol community by requiring Members who break House rules by refusing...
Boston Globe: Increased federal energy aid available as winter weather arrives in Massachusetts
WASHINGTON—With a colder winter forecast and energy prices higher compared to last year, unpaid utility bills could pile up in New England like the snow outside. So the Biden administration and...
Business Insider: Top Democrat wants to force Marjorie Taylor Greene and others who flout mask rules to vote from ‘isolation boxes’ in the House gallery
A top House Democratic lawmaker is asking the House sergeant at arms to require maskless members of Congress to cast their votes from "isolation boxes" in the House gallery above the main floor,...
Daily Beast: Assistant House Speaker Requests ‘Isolation Boxes’ for Maskless Members of Congress
The fourth-ranking Democrat in the House wants to put her most stubborn colleagues in a corner. Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) wrote a Tuesday letter to the House Sergeant-at-Arms William Walker...
Melrose Free Press: Rep. Clark: Recovery is a mission we’re on together
The coronavirus pandemic has brought heartache to our community, from unemployment to food insecurity to loss of life. It has pushed many into isolation and severed neighbors from their routines and...
Framingham Source: Framingham Holds Vigil For Democracy; Massachusetts Leaders Reflect On Capitol Attack One Year Later
FRAMINGHAM - On Thursday night, January 6, 2022, scores of individuals held signs and flags at the corner of Route 135 and 126 in downtown Framingham as part of a vigil for Democracy.Organized by...
Boston.com: What Charlie Baker and other Mass. lawmakers are saying about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot anniversary
"Every citizen, and most importantly every public official, must safeguard that system so that motto always rings true."In the hours after last year's Jan. 6 riot by Donald Trump supporters at the...
Huffington Post: Republicans MIA As Congress Marks Jan. 6 Anniversary
WASHINGTON ― Hardly any Republicans showed up Thursday to commemorate the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, one of the worst days for democracy in U.S. history.The only ones...
ICYMI: Assistant Speaker Clark Pens Op-Ed for Newsweek One Year After January 6th; Calls for Voting Rights, End to Filibuster
"Democracy cannot survive voter suppression laws that substitute the will of the people for the will of a few." WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, a year after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol,...
Newsweek: 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,...
The Hill: Top House Democrat urges Senate to abolish filibuster to pass voting rights on Jan. 6 anniversary
A top House Democrat is calling on the Senate to abolish the filibuster in order to pass federal voting rights legislation, pointing to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as reason why election...
MetroWest News: ‘Let’s get to work together.’ Charlie Sisitsky sworn in as Framingham mayor
FRAMINGHAM — He's long been referred to as simply "Charlie," but as of New Year's Day he now goes by another name: Mayor.Charlie Sisitsky was officially sworn in Saturday as the city's second mayor...
Boston Globe: Cleaning up America’s lead water pipes
In 2014, Flint, Mich. became a national headline. After the city began supplying residents with water from the Flint River, families and businesses began to notice that the water from their taps...
Framingham Source: Congresswoman Clark Urges Government To Protect Families With Projected 30% Increase in Heating Costs Forecasted
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (D-MA-5) and Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) led a bicameral letter urging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to address the ongoing...
Public Now: Feinstein, Reed, Clark, Bicameral Group Urge HHS To Help Protect Families This Winter During Energy Crisis
Washington - Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) joined Senator Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Representative Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and a bicameral group of their colleagues in urging the...
Clark, Reed Lead Letter Urging HHS to Protect Families This Winter During Energy Crisis
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (D-MA-5) and Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) led a bicameral letter urging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to address the ongoing...
Tilamook Headlight Herald: Youth Mental Health: New federal effort for needed resources
Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark recently announced the introduction of the Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Act, legislation that would greatly...
Chestnut Post: Massachusetts congresswomen Katherine Clark, Ayanna Pressley advocate for Build Back Better Act
Democrats are furiously trying to get President Joe Biden's legislation that would expand the nation's social safety net after it was derailed by a member of their own party.---Original story...
Assistant Speaker Clark, Democratic Women’s Caucus Statement on Senator Joe Manchin’s Comments on Build Back Better
Washington, D.C. - Today, Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (MA-5) joined the Democratic Women's Caucus (DWC) in a joint response to Senator Joe Manchin's (D-WV) comments that he...