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A group of Democratic lawmakers, including Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., are planning on introducing legislation this week that would provide $16 billion in funding for child care, sources familiar with the effort say.
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and House Minority Whip Katherine M. Clark, D-Mass., are also leading the longshot stand-alone effort to secure the funding, which House appropriations ranking member Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., is also pushing.
With Maui desperately in need of federal aid as residents struggle to recover from the Aug. 8 wildfires, the government shutting down and the Federal Emergency Management Agency running out of money “is absolutely not an option,” Hawaii’s U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda said.
“Disasters are continuing to strike across our country.” Tokuda said Wednesday. “It is so critical that the billions and billions of dollars that we need to fund FEMA is put there when we go back in September.”
MAUI, HI – Today, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) released the following statement after joining Congresswoman Jill Tokuda (HI-2) to witness the wildfire devastation on the island of Maui and ongoing recovery efforts.
CHICAGO, IL. – Yesterday, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) visited Chicago, IL, and participated in three events hosted by Congressmen Danny Davis (IL-7), Bill Foster (IL-11), and Chuy Garica (IL-4).
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) released the following statement after the Biden-Harris Administration unveiled the first ten prescription drugs selected for Medicare price negotiations under the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act.
WASHINGTON, DC — House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark, Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar and Vice Chair Ted Lieu released the following statement:
REVERE, MA — Today, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) released the following statement on the 5th Circuit Court decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA:
REVERE, MA — Today, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) released the following statement in celebration of the one-year anniversary of the Democrats’ historic Inflation Reduction Act.
House Republican leaders on Thursday postponed votes for a must-pass government funding bill and dismissed lawmakers to start a six-week recess, raising the risk of a government shutdown in September amid simmering internal conflicts over spending levels and hot-button social issues.
The House passed its first fiscal 2024 spending bill Thursday, funding veterans benefits and military construction projects, by a razor-thin margin along party lines that signaled a troubled road ahead for the appropriations process.
The $317.4 billion Military Construction-VA bill, usually considered the least controversial of the 12 annual spending measures, passed on a 219-211 vote. Democrats marched in lockstep against the bill, saying it was chock-full of extremist policy riders and would cut military housing money needed by troops and their families.