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As Republicans took full control of Congress this week and U.S. President-elect prepared to take office later this month, Democratic lawmakers renewed warnings about how the GOP agenda will harm working people and pledged to fight against it.
"Today, the 119th Congress officially begins. Our top priority over the next two years must be fighting for working families and standing up to corporate power and greed," Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), chair emeritus of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said on social media Friday.
Monday, December 30th • Segment
Mass. Congresswoman Katherine Clark looks back at the year that was and shares her party’s game plan to get back on track with reporter James Pindell.
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Jimmy Carter, the nation’s 39th president who died Sunday at age 100 at his home in Georgia, is being remembered by Massachusetts political leaders as a visionary leader and humanitarian.
Governor Maura Healey has ordered flags to be lowered to half-staff at all state buildings until Jan. 28, in honor of the life and legacy of the 39th president.
Democrats and Republicans agreed with each other on Thursday: Elon Musk had taken over the government, derailing up a funding deal that the elected representatives of the people had negotiated.
They disagreed about whether this was a good thing.
“Elon Musk, this unelected man, said, we’re not doing this deal, and Donald Trump followed along,” House Minority Whip Katherine Clark told reporters on Thursday. Other Democrats said that they’d warned about exactly this — the wealthiest man in the world, running the government — before the election.
Democrats in the U.S. House, prepping for another two years in the minority under the incoming Trump administration, reelected the top members of their leadership on Tuesday.
U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark, D-5th District, the Democrats' whip, the No. 2 leadership position, was reelected by acclamation, Axios reported.
Katherine Clark is already one of the most powerful women in Congress, but her influence will be magnified if the Democrats regain control of the US House of Representatives on November 5.
A group of 164 members of Congress filed an amicus brief on Tuesday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to defend transgender Americans’ access to medically necessary healthcare as the justices prepare to hear oral arguments this fall in U.S. v. Skrmetti.
Yesterday, July 10, Glamour, Paid Leave for All, and MomsRising delivered a historic petition signed by more than 55,000 people to all members of Congress on Capitol Hill, calling on them to pass the country’s first national paid leave policy.
This Monday marks two years since the Supreme Court released the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that protected the federal right to abortion care.
At the beginning of Pride Month, Democratic leadership in the House and members of the LGBTQ-supportive Equality Caucus released statements in honor of the month and its importance. Here's what they had to say.