Nov 16, 2015
Today 58 babies, 1 baby every 25 minutes, will be born suffering from the same pain adults describe as the worst pain of their lives, the pain of drug withdrawal. Over the last decade, the number of infants born experiencing withdrawal…
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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Oct 26, 2015
Thank you to all the panelists who are with us today for this really interesting and important discussion.
Oct 23, 2015
Here we go again. We are back here using valuable legislative time to make a doomed attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Next week the highway bill will expire. The week after that we are facing the prospect of defaulting on our…
Oct 6, 2015
I'm very interested in the effect of trauma and toxic stress on kids and families and on childcare providers.
Sep 17, 2015
There has been a lot of talk about defunding Planned Parenthood. Some Republicans have made this such a priority that they are vowing to shut down our government, shut down our programs for veterans and hinder their ability to access…
Sep 17, 2015
Thank you, Congressman Lieu. We appreciate your coming. The story that you shared is repeated over and over with the millions of women that count on Planned Parenthood for their healthcare services. I would now like to yield to my…
Sep 17, 2015
I thank the gentleman from California for sharing his experience as a medical doctor and as someone who stands with Planned Parenthood. Thank you for joining us. Congressman Ruiz raises an interesting point about looking at our system of…
Sep 17, 2015
I thank the gentleman from Tennessee for his words and for his commitment to women and their access to health care and for pointing out the confounding thing about defunding Planned Parenthood, which is that we are not even talking about…
Sep 17, 2015
I thank the gentlewoman from New Jersey. I want to reiterate something that the Congresswoman said, that this is really a thinly veiled extremist position. What we are talking about is exactly as the gentlewoman from New Jersey put it. We…
Sep 8, 2015
I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. Our Nation is experiencing a deadly opiate epidemic, an epidemic that knows no boundaries and destroys lives, families, and communities. Today 58 babies--one baby every 25 minutes--will be…
Jul 27, 2015
I introduced legislation called, Protecting Our Infants Act, which focuses on care for babies that are being born dependent to opiates, but it also looks at the effectiveness of programs specifically aimed at women and helping with…
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