Katherine Clark

I am so impressed with your transition to virtual programming.

Your own testimony today says that that January 3 assessment, quote, 'foretold of a significant likelihood for violence on the Capitol Grounds.'

You testified that the U.S. Capitol Police were aware that there were militia members, White supremacists, and other extremist groups who were coming to DC on January 6.

My goal is to honor those officers who gave their lives, to honor everyone who was injured, terrorized, and traumatized.

It is time to pass laws that cover these types of harms. It is crucial that legislation provide private rights of action.

Congress can work with independent extremism experts to protect vulnerable targets from becoming either victims of abuse or radicalized perpetrators of violence.

Suffragist and abolitionist Lucy Stone stated, ``If we speak the truth fearlessly, we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.'' The truth is, President Trump incited a…

By direction of the Democratic Caucus, I offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 35 Resolved, That the following named Members be, and are hereby, elected to…

We are resolute about holding this president accountable.

This president is a danger, this president is a traitor, and this president must be removed from office.

Rage that this President would commit this seditious act, would commit this act of treason against our country.

I completely support your plans for regionalizing and trying to get former law enforcement.

We are deeply grateful.

House Democrats took the necessary action to defeat this virus and restore the economy in May, but Mitch McConnell said let's hit the pause button. So Americans have waited 7 long months for the GOP to take action to end their suffering…

But sadly, this story won't end that way. This story will be one in which the outgoing President Trump thought at every turn to obstruct democracy and to subvert the will of the people.

99 days ago House Democrats passed the HEROES Act to provide much-needed relief to the American people suffering from this pandemic. What was the reaction from the GOP? A shrug. Funding for State and local governments to protect jobs of…

As we all know, sexism isn't new to Congress, and it is not new to America. It happens in homes, in schools, and in all places of work. The behavior, the language, and the assault wielded against my colleague was disgusting, inappropriate…

It is difficult to close such a remembrance and a celebration, and we will never close the chapter on our friendship, admiration, and reverence for John Lewis. But John Lewis, for me, has always been the embodiment of the words of Micah 6…

What a privilege it has been not only to serve with John Lewis, but to be witness tonight to the remembrances of our icon, the peacemaker, the justice seeker, Congressman John Robert Lewis. Personally, I never got used to working with John…

The Moving Forward Act recognizes that childcare is infrastructure. Central to rebuilding our economy, stabilizing our workforce, and educating our children, childcare is a public good, supporting more than $99 billion a year in economic…

Almost 4 years ago today, I joined with my colleagues and my friend, Congressman John Lewis, in leading a sit-in on this very floor after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. We could not stand for another moment of silence…

We can't wish away this pandemic. We can't accept the false choice that we either reopen or lose to the virus. No. We must protect the American people and the institutions and values that define our Nation with action. The HEROES Act…

And when we talk about the dignity of work, we have to make sure that those workplaces, those salaries are really giving people a chance.

I don't think we make tradeoffs between public health emergencies.

Are we addressing in a realistic way systematic racism, systemic racism, and the toxic vestiges we have of slavery? Are we looking at voter suppression?