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Katherine M. Clark

DemocratKatherine M. Clark

U.S. Representative · Massachusetts

Massachusetts's 5th district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

4 tracked promises

Massachusetts · Massachusetts's 5th district

Massachusetts's 5th district

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DemocratTarik Samman
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How they won their seat

Katherine M. Clark won the 2024 U.S. House election in Massachusetts (District 5) with 75.5% of the vote (286,689 votes).

75.5%
Win share
286,689
Votes for winner
379,701
Total cast
  • Katherine M. Clark · Democrat75.5%
  • Blanks · Na23.1%
  • 1 Other Candidate1.4%

Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.

Inferred legislative agendas

Katherine M. Clark's record includes legislation related to child care and education, evidenced by her sponsorship of bills including the Child Care Infrastructure Act (HR 3274) and the Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Act (HR 8524). Additionally, she has sponsored legislation related to mental health and trauma-informed care, including the Trauma-Informed Schools Act (HR 8526) and the AVERT Future Violence Act (HR 8659). Focus areas (from the record): Child Care · Education · Mental Health · Trauma-Informed Care · Veterans Support Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against her legislative activity. Therefore, it is not possible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal any declared positions or promises to assess alignment; There is no information on the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; The absence of committee assignments limits understanding of her legislative influence. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Katherine M. Clark has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.

Showing 2025–2027 term. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.

Activity in office

What Katherine M. Clark has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score.

Votes cast
609
Voted yea
268
Voted nay
340
Bills sponsored
3

Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
016324864VotesJun '25: 18 YeaJun '25: 22 NayJun '25Jul '25: 11 YeaJul '25: 22 NayJul '25Sep '25: 15 YeaSep '25: 49 NaySep '25Nov '25: 8 YeaNov '25: 15 NayNov '25Dec '25: 25 YeaDec '25: 31 NayDec '25Jan '26: 24 YeaJan '26: 23 NayJan '26Feb '26: 13 YeaFeb '26: 17 NayFeb '26Mar '26: 12 YeaMar '26: 18 NayMar '26Apr '26: 23 YeaApr '26: 24 NayApr '26May '26: 21 YeaMay '26: 15 NayMay '26Jun '26: 25 YeaJun '26: 17 NayJun '26Jul '26: 8 YeaJul '26: 8 NayJul '26Jun '25: 40 totalJul '25: 33 totalSep '25: 64 totalNov '25: 23 totalDec '25: 57 totalJan '26: 47 totalFeb '26: 30 totalMar '26: 30 totalApr '26: 47 totalMay '26: 36 totalJun '26: 42 totalJul '26: 16 total
Measures voted on:463 passed145 failed1 procedural/other

Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.

Vote attendance

100%
attendance
609 of 609 roll calls0 missed
Monthly participation rate
0255075100100%Jun 25Sep 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Jul 26

Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

3bills sponsored
3 pending
01234Bills2025: 3 pending32025

Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.

Independence

1%
Votes against own party
7 of 608 recent votes

How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.

Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bill success rate

0%
0 of 3 sponsored bills became law
3 pending

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$5.0M
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$1.3M$2.5M$3.8M$5M2026: raised $5.0M2026: spent $4.8M20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $160K (4%)Large individual (itemized): $1.8M (42%)42%PAC / committee: $2.3M (55%)55%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$160K4%
  • Large individual (itemized)$1.8M42%
  • PAC / committee$2.3M55%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Integrity

Not yet rated

No promises have been rated yet, so there is no Integrity Score to show. Lifecycle promises (in progress, not yet rated) are tracked but never scored.

The score, once promises are rated, is a signed −100…+100 breakdown weighted by significance and evidence confidence — never a single opaque grade. How this is measured.

Integrity over time

The integrity timeline appears here once this official's promises are rated. In office since Jan 2019.
Not yet scoredNot yet rated 4— tracked, but not counted toward Integrity

Topic coverage

4 promises across 4 topics

What this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.

  • Child Care1
  • Child Care / Higher Education1
  • Reproductive Rights1
  • Voting Rights1
Kept Worked against No opportunity / not yet scored

Evidence & significance

Evidence quality

Strongest source cited per promise.

  • Primary (official record)4100%

Significance mix

How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).

10
20
32
42
50

Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.

Tracked promises

4 tracked promises

Not yet rated

Pass the Child Care for Working Families Act to cap the typical family's child care costs at no more than $15 a day, with no eligible family paying more than 7 percent of its income on child care.

Child CareSpecific · measurablePromised Jul 2025
Sourceshttps://katherineclark.house.gov/2025/07/15/2025-7-clark-murray-scott-democrats-reintroduce-child-care-for-working-families-act/https://www.murray.senate.gov/murray-scott-colleagues-reintroduce-child-care-for-working-families-act-democrats-advocate-for-affordable-child-care-while-trump-republicans-blow-up-debt-on-billionaire-tax-cuts-and-at/https://bobbyscott.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/scott-murray-reintroduce-child-care-working-families-act-0
Not yet rated

Pass the Women's Health Protection Act to codify the right to abortion in federal law and guarantee nationwide access to abortion care after the Dobbs decision.

Reproductive RightsSpecific · measurablePromised Jun 2025
Sourceshttps://katherineclark.house.gov/2025/06/24/2025-6-whip-clark-house-democrats-mark-three-years-since-dobbs-by-reintroducing-women-s-health-protection-act/https://democraticwhip.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/whip-clark-house-democrats-mark-three-years-since-dobbs-by-reintroducing-women-s-health-protection-act
Not yet rated

Pass the CCAMPIS Reauthorization Act to reauthorize the federal campus child care program through Fiscal Year 2031 and fund it at $500 million per year to expand on-campus child care for parenting students.

Child Care / Higher EducationPromised Sep 2025
Sourceshttps://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/duckworth-clark-reintroduce-bill-providing-affordable-and-accessible-child-care-for-parenting-studentshttps://democraticwhip.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/clark-duckworth-reintroduce-bill-providing-affordable-and-accessible-child-care-for-parenting-studentshttps://mcclellan.house.gov/media/press-releases/mcclellan-joins-clark-duckworth-reintroduce-bill-providing-affordable-and
Not yet rated

Secure passage of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R.14) to restore and strengthen the Voting Rights Act's protections against racial discrimination in voting.

Voting RightsPromised Mar 2025
Sourceshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/14/cosponsorshttps://katherineclark.org/priorities/

Verified record

80 sponsored bills · finance on file

Facts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.

Campaign financeas of Mar 31, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $3,437,674, spent $2,773,066, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
268
Nay
340
Present
1
Not voting
0

Full voting record

609 votes
120 of 609
Page 1 / 31

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Stated positions

4 positions on record

What this official says they believe — sourced claims, shown distinctly from tracked promises and from any assessment of what they did. A stated position is never scored and never affects the Integrity Score.

  • Child Care / Higher EducationStated position

    Pass the CCAMPIS Reauthorization Act to reauthorize the federal campus child care program through Fiscal Year 2031 and fund it at $500 million per year to expand on-campus child care for parenting students.

    Sourceshttps://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/duckworth-clark-reintroduce-bill-providing-affordable-and-accessible-child-care-for-parenting-studentshttps://democraticwhip.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/clark-duckworth-reintroduce-bill-providing-affordable-and-accessible-child-care-for-parenting-studentshttps://mcclellan.house.gov/media/press-releases/mcclellan-joins-clark-duckworth-reintroduce-bill-providing-affordable-and
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  • Child CareStated position

    Pass the Child Care for Working Families Act to cap the typical family's child care costs at no more than $15 a day, with no eligible family paying more than 7 percent of its income on child care.

    Sourceshttps://katherineclark.house.gov/2025/07/15/2025-7-clark-murray-scott-democrats-reintroduce-child-care-for-working-families-act/https://www.murray.senate.gov/murray-scott-colleagues-reintroduce-child-care-for-working-families-act-democrats-advocate-for-affordable-child-care-while-trump-republicans-blow-up-debt-on-billionaire-tax-cuts-and-at/https://bobbyscott.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/scott-murray-reintroduce-child-care-working-families-act-0
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  • Reproductive RightsStated position

    Pass the Women's Health Protection Act to codify the right to abortion in federal law and guarantee nationwide access to abortion care after the Dobbs decision.

    Sourceshttps://katherineclark.house.gov/2025/06/24/2025-6-whip-clark-house-democrats-mark-three-years-since-dobbs-by-reintroducing-women-s-health-protection-act/https://democraticwhip.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/whip-clark-house-democrats-mark-three-years-since-dobbs-by-reintroducing-women-s-health-protection-act
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  • Voting RightsStated position

    Secure passage of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R.14) to restore and strengthen the Voting Rights Act's protections against racial discrimination in voting.

    Sourceshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/14/cosponsorshttps://katherineclark.org/priorities/
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Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

Disclosure

A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.

No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.

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