Katherine Clark

My home state of Oregon has been a leader. Legislature just passed a comprehensive paid sick leave law.

I am proud to be a cosponsor of the Schedules that Work Act, that give workers more of a say in scheduling.

I would like to share the story of a determined woman who took a traumatic personal experience from her past and is using it to help people. Erin Merryn is a survivor of childhood sexual assault that began when she was just 7 years old. In…

I urge the committee to act swiftly in reporting out this bill.

H.R. 1462, the Protecting Our Infants Act of 2015, authored by Reps. Katherine Clark (MA) and Steve Stivers (OH), will combat the rise of prenatal opioid abuse.

In the richest country in the world, nearly 16 million children struggle with food insecurity.

Imagine waking up every morning with the dread that you will face hundreds of violent threats as soon as you get to work. Imagine that, while you are in your office, people threaten to sexually assault you, and they know where you live…

We are a proud union state. We protect collective bargaining.

I thank the gentlewoman from Texas for yielding. Bentley University is a renowned business school in my district, and when a class from Bentley visited me just a few weeks ago, they were advocating for a critical underpinning of our…

As we look across our country and see almost 16 million children going to bed hungry every night...

This is an outrage. We are again debating a bill that takes away women's constitutional rights. I agree with the gentleman from Arizona that we are privileged. We are privileged to be Members of Congress and represent our districts and our…

There are too many, as we heard already, Bureau of Indian Education schools that are operating facilities that are in disrepair and need some work.

It is pretty clear that we have work to do both to improve the Bureau of Indian Education schools as well as addressing the educational outcomes for all American Indian and Alaska Native students.

I thank my colleague from Massachusetts. Congress often talks about strengthening the middle class and growing our economy. For many years now, we have had an opportunity to pass a commonsense bill that will actually help us do just that…

It is really in our best interest. In a country like ours where we have so much, it is just wrong for students to be hungry, for children to be hungry.

We are removing a barrier for many of them.

I am really looking forward to working with all my colleagues to take ambitious steps to ensure that fewer children have to worry about where they are going to get their next meal.

I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on the Kennedy amendment and ``no'' on the underlying bill.

This will be the second time that I have cosponsored an amendment to the Secret Science Reform Act with Representatives Kennedy and McGovern. I have spoken in opposition to this bill before, but so long as the House continues to consider…

Right now, millions of American women and girls are online, navigating their personal and professional lives. Sadly, many will be threatened online or will be subjected to terrifying harassment. Journalists, academics, and other…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 240, line 15, strike ``or'' at the end. Page 240, insert the following after line 20: ``(I)…

American women pay taxes, raise their families, contribute to our economy, and are over half of the electorate. Yet rather than helping these women succeed and grow our economy, we give them this bill that forces backward ideological…

Almost every day I hear from the families in my district who are frustrated by the disconnect between what they need and the discussions that we have here in Congress and Washington. Only 1 week into the 114th Congress, the Republican…

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I was able to spend time not only with my extended family but with the families of my district. And it struck me--not for the first time--how disconnected much of the conversation in Washington is from the…

I wondered if you could tell me a little bit about your thinking behind that and what some of the alternatives for those programs might be.