{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://katherineclark.house.gov/press-releases?ID=23C0B6D2-A499-4BE3-AF63-AE75B71E7BE6", "Whip Clark: \u201cWhat I\u2019m Seeing in the House Is a MAGA Majority That Is Not Interested in Solutions.\u201d", "2023-12-10", "2023", "2023-12", "Democrat", "House", "MA", "Katherine M. Clark", "C001101", "katherineclark.house.gov", "clark", "https://katherineclark.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Today, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) appeared on WCVB\u2019s On The Record to discuss Democrats' work to defend democracy at home and abroad while working to meet the needs of families. Below are highlights from her interview:\n\nOn the Rising Tide of Antisemitic Hate Speech on University Campuses:\n\n\u201cWhat we're seeing on college campuses is an alarming rise of antisemitism. None of us can tolerate calls for genocide of any group, be that Jewish students [or] any ethnic or racial group.\n\n\u201cThat is a point of moral clarity that everyone has to be able to agree on. We need to call out hate speech wherever we see it and make sure that every single student feels secure on their campus.\n\n\u201cWe all have a role to play \u2014 whether it's on campus or in our communities \u2014 in making sure that we are having an exchange of ideas around [the] very complex and horrendous crisis we're seeing in the Middle East. But we can do it in a way that is not rising to the level of hate speech.\u201d\n\nOn the Path Ahead for Immigration Reform:\n\n\u201cThere isn't a person you can find who says that the system is working well. It is a broken system, and we have to do better.\n\n\u201cPresident Biden put forward a plan that has been rejected. He also put forward a Dreamers Act that has been rejected by the Republicans. Let's go back to the Farm Workers Modernization Act, which was a bill that compromised around how we can begin to heal this system and bring it together so that it works for both our economy, for our national security, and for migrants. That also was rejected.\n\n\u201cSo what I'm seeing in the House is a MAGA Majority that is not interested in solutions but is interested in politicizing this critical issue that we need to be coming together [on] \u2014 not using it as a political football.\u201d\n\nOn the House Republicans Obstructing Aid to Ukraine:\n\n\u201cWe have in the House of Representatives a Pro-Putin Caucus that is currently winning the day. There is a majority in the GOP who says, \u2018We'll stand for Ukraine.\u2019 The question is, will they stand up to the extremists who frankly are willing to pull back and allow Putin to do what he wants in Ukraine? [This funding] is so critical \u2014 not just to Ukraine and the Ukrainian people \u2014 but because it will involve our national security and our troops if we allow him to cross into NATO.\u201d\n\nOn Massachusetts\u2019 Migrant Crisis:\n\n\u201cWashington needs to do more. And the House GOP has to come and support the President in that supplement that we've been talking about \u2014 that security supplement \u2014 is money for states like Massachusetts to help us shelter these migrants when they come here.\n\n\u201cI'm very grateful the Administration has started to offer work clinics so that these migrants can get their work authority and begin to make their money. But we have received $2 million in federal funding. We are spending $45 million a month. And that's why the Mass Delegation recently led a letter saying, we appreciate the Administration and the money they asked for, but we need to do more.\u201d\n\nOn Avoiding A Government Shutdown In January:\n\n\u201cOur strategy remains the same since we had the GOP-manufactured debt crisis back in May. We came together \u2014 and in a bipartisan fashion \u2014 set the toplines for our budget. We already know. We've already voted. We've put it into law where those numbers should be.\n\n\u201cWe are going to continue to go back to the new Speaker and say, \u2018Live up to those numbers.\u2019 It is because of Democrats that we haven't shut down. Those numbers did not come from GOP votes. Those are carried by Democrats. We want to govern.\n\n\u201cWhat we are seeing out of this Majority in the House is they're doing nothing. They're doing nothing to address what I hear about from my constituents every day \u2014 that when they go to the grocery store, they're facing high prices they can't afford.\n\n\u201cThey are still facing prescription drugs they can't afford. And what are we seeing? We're seeing a fake, sham impeachment process, censures, civil wars within the GOP. The American people are standing outside looking at the MAGA Majority saying, \u2018How do we fit into any of this?\u2019 We will continue to work with them any time they want to come and work for the American people.\u201d\n\nOn Democrats\u2019 2024 Outlook and What\u2019s At Stake:\n\n\u201cI am very much looking forward to Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker of the House [\u2026] What we're seeing as we go into 2024 is that we really are a country at a crossroads. And we have to make a decision: Are we going to choose democracy? Are we going to choose to tackle the problems that families are facing? Or are we going to choose fascism and Donald Trump and a [continuation] of this MAGA extremism that is dividing us instead of bringing us together?\u201d\n\nTo view the complete interview, click HERE.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:14:16Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://katherineclark.house.gov/press-releases?ID=23C0B6D2-A499-4BE3-AF63-AE75B71E7BE6"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.8929398395121098, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}