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Democrats want to remind voters of their efforts to protect access to abortion and most recently have seized on the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen embryos are children.
They are looking to hold Republicans’ feet to the fire and force them to answer uncomfortable questions about the full impact of fetal personhood.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) announced Amanda Zurawski of Texas as her guest at President Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Address.
Democratic House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, U.S. representative from Massachusetts, and Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-12) met with YMCA providers, the New Jersey Department of Human Services (NJDHS), local families and officials on the need for federal funding to support child care providers and programs.
Congress’s biggest mission this week, as it has been several times over the last few months, was to keep the lights on, and it did. Phew.
In addition to passing a stopgap funding bill, New Jersey’s congressional representatives proposed new steps to protect IVF, hosted top House Democratic leaders in their districts, issued calls to save the whales, and more. Here’s some of what New Jersey’s 14 members of Congress did this week.
They’re funding the government in weeklong increments now
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) joined Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Lois Frankel (FL-22) and Reps. Susan Wild (PA-7), Terri Sewell (AL-7), Lori Trahan (MA-3), Susie Lee (NV-3), and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) to demand action on Rep.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democratic Whip Katherine Clark released the following statement applauding the Biden-Harris Administration’s latest action that will cut the cost of child care for working families:
PRINCETON, NJ — Today, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-05), Rep.
“This epidemic of gun violence is as uniquely American as the Super Bowl itself, and it's marring the soul of the American people,” wrote Whip Clark.
On the sixth anniversary of the Parkland shooting, Florida Democrats in Congress are asking credit companies to flag suspicious gun purchases.
U.S. Reps. Jared Moskowitz and Maxwell Frost filed legislation clearing the way for merchant codes to allow for that. The Identify Gun Stores Act would override laws in several states, including one signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis last year.
Two Florida Democrats introduced legislation to track suspicious gun and ammunition purchases on Wednesday, the sixth anniversary of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., that left 14 students and three staff members dead.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), who represents Parkland, unveiled the legislation along with Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), who represents Orlando, where the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting happened. Other lawmakers joined the two at a press conference to honor the victims of the 2018 shooting.