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- Early Life and Career
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- Massachusetts Legislature
- U.S. House of Representatives
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Katherine Marlea Clark was born on July 17, 1963, in New Haven, Connecticut. She attended St. Lawrence University, Cornell Law School, and Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She studied in Nagoya, Japan, in 1983. In her early career, she worked as an attorney in Chicago. She then moved to Colorado, where she worked as a clerk for Judge...
In 2001, Clark moved to Melrose, where she was elected to the Melrose School Committee, taking her seat in January 2002. She first ran for the Massachusetts Senate in 2004 and lost to Republican incumbent Richard Tisei. In January 2005, she was unanimously elected chairwoman of the Melrose School Committee. In 2006, she ran for the 32nd Middlesex s...
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Festa resigned his state House seat in October 2007 to become secretary of elder affairs in the Deval Patrick administration, and Clark entered the special election to succeed him. During the campaign, she emphasized her experience as an attorney and made "developing stability in state aid" her top policy issue. She won the Democratic primary in January with 65% of the vote, defeating two other Melrose Democrats. She defeated Republican real estate businessman Mark B. Hutchison, 63% to 37%.In...
Massachusetts Senate
When Tisei resigned from the state senate to run for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, Clark ran for his seat. In the Democratic primary, she defeated Stoneham attorney Michael S. Day, 64%–36%.In the November 2010 general election, she defeated Republican Craig Spadafora, 52%–48%. Clark was sworn in on January 5, 2011.She supports abortion rights and has been endorsed in her campaigns by NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts and the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund. In 2011, Clark was co-chair o...
Tenure
Clark was sworn into office on December 12, 2013, and sits on the House Appropriations Committee. In a 2014 interview with The Boston Globe, she compared life in Washington to the television series House of Cards, saying "It's exactly like here, minus the murders." Clark was unopposed in her bid for a full term in 2014. In March 2015, Clark decided not to attend the speech by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu before a joint session of Congress. She affirmed a commitment to maintaining...
Committee assignments
1. Committee on Appropriations 1.1. Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education 1.2. Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development 1.3. Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch
Caucus memberships
1. Animal Protection Caucus 2. Armenian Caucus 3. Autism Caucus 4. Baby Caucus 5. Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change 6. Biomedical Research Caucus 7. Bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer’s Disease 8. Career and Technical Education 9. Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) 10. Congressional Women's Caucus 11. Cranberry Caucus 12. Internet Caucus 13. Hellenic Caucus 14. Heroin Task Force 15. LGBT Equality Caucus 16. Medicare for All Caucus 17. Peace Corps Caucus 18....
Clark is married to Rodney S. Dowell, chief bar counsel for the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, the state entity that regulates the legal profession in Massachusetts. They live in Revere and have three children. In January 2023, Clark confirmed that her adult daughter was arrested for assault by means of a dangerous weapon and damage to prope...
30 de mai. de 2024 · One of only two women to ever serve as Whip, she currently has the distinction of being the highest-ranking woman in Congressional leadership. From the school board to Capitol Hill, Clark’s public service has been fueled by a passion for lifting up women and families.
1 de dez. de 2022 · KATHERINE CLARK: I'm Congresswoman Katherine Clark from the fifth District of Massachusetts, currently assistant speaker of the House. KELLY: Clark, who has represented Massachusetts in...
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7 de jan. de 2023 · Massachusetts Rep. Katherine Clark assumed her role as House minority whip in the early hours of Saturday morning, becoming the highest-ranking Democratic woman in the chamber. Clark is only...
8 de dez. de 2022 · The representative in question is Rep. Katherine Clark, who was first elected to the House in 2013. This move is a rise in rank to second highest ranked Democrat in the House from her current...
30 de nov. de 2022 · WASHINGTON — Representative Katherine Clark cemented her future Wednesday as the number two House Democrat in the next Congress, making history as only the second woman to hold the position after...
