DemocratKatherine M. Clark
U.S. Representative · Massachusetts
Massachusetts's 5th district
U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
4 tracked promises
Running against
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).
- Katherine M. Clark · Democrat75.5%286,689
- Blanks · Na23.1%87,811
- 1 Other Candidate1.4%5,201
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.
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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.
- Bills sponsored
- 3
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
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.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$160K4%
- Large individual (itemized)$1.8M42%
- PAC / committee$2.3M55%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Integrity
Not yet ratedNo 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
Topic coverage
4 promises across 4 topicsWhat 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
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).
Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.
4 tracked promises
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
Verified record
80 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts 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.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $3,437,674, spent $2,773,066, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 5458: CCAMPIS Reauthorization Act ↗Sep 18, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3273: Child Care Workforce Development Act ↗May 8, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3274: Child Care Infrastructure Act ↗May 8, 2025
- Sponsored HR 9810: Child Care Workforce Development Act ↗Sep 25, 2024
- Sponsored HR 9811: Child Care Infrastructure Act ↗Sep 25, 2024
- Sponsored HR 9559: CCAMPIS Reauthorization Act ↗Sep 12, 2024
- Sponsored HR 8526: Trauma-Informed Schools Act of 2024 ↗May 23, 2024
- Sponsored HR 8524: Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Act ↗May 23, 2024
- Sponsored HR 5433: Child Care Stabilization Act ↗Sep 13, 2023
- Sponsored HR 8659: AVERT Future Violence Act of 2022 ↗Aug 5, 2022
- Sponsored HR 8494: Trauma-Informed Schools Act of 2022 ↗Jul 26, 2022
- Sponsored HR 7073: Into the Light for MMH and SUD Act of 2022 ↗Mar 15, 2022
Showing the 12 most recent of 80 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 268
- Nay
- 340
- Present
- 1
- Not voting
- 0
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR139Yea
- HRES1423Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Yea
- HRES1398Nay
- HRES1398Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Stated positions
4 positions on recordWhat 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-andView position & sources → - 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-0View position & sources → - 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-actView position & sources → - 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/View position & sources →
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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