Katherine Clark

Yesterday we grieved for 59 Americans who were killed watching a concert and 527 people who were injured as bullets rained down on them. As horrible as it is, it is only an inflection point on the daily loss of life to gun violence. We…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Ohio will be postponed. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 188 printed in House…

Congress should support OSHA's efforts to protect workers and use their data to target safety and health efforts to the most dangerous workplaces. Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to reject this rider and to move forward with the underlying…

Again, I rise not in opposition to this amendment, but I support this effort by my colleague as well. Let's increase behavioral health integration into pediatric primary care, for I, too, have seen the shortages of mental health providers…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I do not oppose this amendment. In fact, I support my colleague's effort to improve access to early childhood mental health promotion, intervention, and treatment. But I think it is…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Tennessee will be postponed. Amendment No. 175 Offered by Mr. Murphy of Pennsylvania The…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to this amendment. The underlying bill is already underfunded. The majority has imposed a $5 billion cut to the Labor-HHS bill below the 2017 omnibus level. This…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan will be postponed. Amendment No. 174 Offered by Mrs. Blackburn The Acting CHAIR. It…

This amendment is an insult to the millions of American workers who deserve to be treated fairly and in a timely manner under the law. Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to reject this amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. The…

This amendment would decimate the ability of the Department of Education to meet the needs of Americans by indiscriminately transferring $44 million to the spending reduction account. This does nothing to improve the bill, which is already…

I thank the gentleman from Oklahoma for yielding me time. While this amendment increases career and technical education funding, a worthy goal that I support, it comes at the expense of funding for critical higher education programs that…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Massachusetts will be postponed.

This amendment would restore funding for the mental health programs cut in this bill. Specifically, it would reverse the $142 million in cuts to SAMHSA's mental health block grant and restore funding for Project AWARE State grants and…

As the designee of the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro), I offer amendment No. 154. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 751, line 24, after the dollar amount…

This will bring the Perkins program into the modern, 21st century global economy. This has broad bipartisan support. I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this act, and I urge them to fully fund the CTE programs and reject the proposed…

I want to thank my colleague from Massachusetts. I am glad to share in this bipartisan moment of admiration for his work with my colleague from Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues to defeat the previous question so…

The studies from Louisiana, from Indiana, from Ohio, all show that students who choose private schools in voucher programs have experienced 'significant losses in achievement.'

You were recently in Indiana, where you called opponents of school choice flat-earthers.

I believe this kind of attitude is why it is so difficult for people struggling to survive with opioid use to gain effective treatment.

The President and I do agree on one thing: designing a healthcare system is complicated. But the effects of TrumpCare are as simple as they are devastating: 24 million hardworking Americans will lose their coverage; your healthcare costs…

Well, here we are, on International Women's Day, 7 years from when we started the Affordable Care Act, 60 votes to repeal behind us, and yet only this week we have had the big reveal of what the plan will be for replacement. What are we…

And if we repeal that provision, that would take out at least $5.5 billion annually from the treatment of low-income people with mental and substance abuse disorders.

And what has that meant? That has meant this provision has helped 2.8 million people with drug use disorders get the treatment that they need.

That is what it is. The families in my district, across this country, this is an issue that doesn't care if it is a red State, blue State, what level of education attainment you have, how much money is in your bank account, it is an equal…

You are the perfect antidote, as we see what I refer to as a starvation budget coming forth from this Administration.