Katherine Clark

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.

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.

Recently, hospital staff and healthcare providers in my district shared with me that their emergency rooms are filled with children and teens struggling with their mental health. We know rates of youth anxiety, depression, and suicidal…

January 6 is one of the darkest days in American history. We now know in great detail how the former President and his cronies were attempting to use the electoral certification process to undermine our democracy to take away the people's…

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this is exactly what the American people need. It lowers costs, it creates great-paying jobs, and it makes our communities safer by addressing the lethal effects of climate change. Seniors…

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…

Overturning Roe overturned our freedom. The freedom to make our own healthcare decisions is fundamental to our humanity and our dignity. It is about the right to control our own lives. It is about the mother of three who simply can't…

Today in our country 321 people will be shot, and 111 of them will die from those gunshots. Twenty-two of the people who are shot every day in this country are kids, just like the 19 fourth graders sitting in their classroom while they…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The primary source of that is fossil fuel burning cars and trucks.

I especially want to thank you for appointing a director of gender-based violence prevention in equity.

We are looking forward to partnering with you on it.

The process has to be much easier. It has to be accessible to those who need it most.

I was delighted to see in your budget another $616,000,000 to help simplify the FAFSA process.

We cannot act as if only our students suffered during the pandemic.

I can't thank you enough for prioritizing the mental health and well-being of our students.

We hope we can continue to work with you to meet this need so we can get people the treatment they need and deserve.

We are going to try to make sure that we are tackling this.

But we know that due to Putin's war, the pandemic, corporate greed, prices are still going to continue to soar and be out of reach for way too many families.