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Katherine Clark

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Katherine Marlea Clark is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Massachusetts's 5th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she has held various leadership roles within the party, including serving as the Assistant Speaker of the House. Clark has focused on issues such as education, healthcare, and women's rights throughout her tenure in Congress. She has been an advocate for policies aimed at supporting families and addressing economic disparities.

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Jan 3, 2025

The GOP promised to make life easier for working families. Now, they want to slash your school budget, raise your grocery costs, and hike your energy bills—all to pay for billionaire tax cuts.

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Sep 30, 2023

We have just received a 71- page bill that is about keeping open our Federal Government, something that Democrats have been pushing for months. We are asking for 90 minutes to be able to read this bill and come to the floor with an…

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Sep 20, 2023

A handful of issues have always transcended politics. Our troops, the guardians of our freedom, have always been one of them, but in the MAGA Republican Party, nothing is off the table. Nothing takes priority over their goal of a…

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May 25, 2023

I am joined by over 80 of my Democratic colleagues to say the quiet part out loud: MAGA Republicans want us to default. They want to run out the clock. They want to lead our government by chaos. By sending us home, by refusing to do their…

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May 24, 2023

1 year ago today, the American people were reeling from a white supremacist terror attack in Buffalo, New York. Families were grieving 10 Black Americans who had been targeted by an ethno-nationalist and murdered for the color of their…

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Apr 19, 2023

Let's think about this. We need to be working on the issues that matter to families and kids. To make these children responsible for all of that and to incite fear, discrimination, and hatred, you should hang your heads in shame.

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Mar 29, 2023

The success of the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) industry requires cooperation from all levels of government.

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Mar 29, 2023

We need to promote aviation. We need good people in it that are inspired to be there.

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Mar 29, 2023

We need to focus on GA, we need to foster GA, and we need to allow it to flourish to provide a conduit to our pilot shortage.

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Mar 29, 2023

We are standing at a really exciting moment, this culmination of so many technologies that are going to fundamentally transform aviation.

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Feb 2, 2023

The numbers are there, $8 trillion in deficit under the Trump administration; a direct correlation to a tax policy that only benefits the very wealthy. I thank the gentleman for joining me today and look forward to many more conversations…

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Feb 2, 2023

Let's go over the basic facts here just briefly once again. What the House GOP did fight for in 2017 was a $2 trillion in tax giveaways for our largest corporations and for the wealthy because that is who they work for; the rich, the very…

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Feb 2, 2023

As they stack some of our most critical committees with election deniers? It is too late to inject integrity into this sham process, but we, as Members, can inject our own by voting ``no'' on this resolution.

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Dec 3, 2022

One of the most alarming things we saw in November was a rise of dark money, money coming in from individuals exceeding over a billion dollars, and money and campaigns that we don't know who it came from. So let's make it a transparent…

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Dec 3, 2022

It is the Democrats who make sure that we are pushing laws to get dark money out of our politics so that people can see who's funding our campaigns.

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Dec 3, 2022

It is a national shame that we do not have paid sick leave in this country as a national policy for every single worker, including the railroad workers.

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Dec 3, 2022

We do not want to leave that to the hands of the GOP, who are already threatening to take down our economy and hold our budget hostage.

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Jul 21, 2022

Today we vote to protect the right to obtain and use birth control, a choice that should be yours and yours alone. As a reminder, the year is 2022, not 1922, not 1822. It is well established. Birth control is central to a person's ability…

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May 11, 2022

Modernizing systems across the entirety of the federal government must be a priority.

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May 11, 2022

Failing to extend temporary judgeships across the country... would be harmful to the administration of justice.

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May 11, 2022

These high caseloads and lack of general court capacity have led to significant consequences.

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May 11, 2022

One of the areas I am most concerned about is court capacity.

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May 11, 2022

I just ask that we do something to ensure that our Indian Health Service is adequately funded, which it currently is not.

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May 9, 2022

An issue that I know you are committed to and that we have talked about before is that of childcare.

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May 9, 2022

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law addressed this significant source of carbon dioxide emissions.

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