{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://katherineclark.house.gov/press-releases?ID=92C3E8F5-4818-4A6A-A926-ED8AC68BDB0B", "Whip Clark Pens Boston Globe Op-Ed: \u201cMike Johnson\u2019s War on Women\u201d", "2025-12-20", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "House", "MA", "Katherine M. Clark", "C001101", "katherineclark.house.gov", "clark", "https://katherineclark.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "MALDEN, MA \u2014 In case you missed it, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) published an op-ed in the Boston Globe calling out Mike Johnson\u2019s misogyny and Republicans\u2019 anti-woman, anti-family policies.\n\nYou can read the entire op-ed HERE or below:\n\nMike Johnson\u2019s war on women\n\nRepresentative Katherine Clark of Massachusetts is the House Democratic Whip.\n\n\"Amid all the political chaos in these final weeks of 2025, House Republicans have broken into another civil war. This one is personal \u2014 with Speaker Mike Johnson facing brutal accusations of misogyny from his own party members, even as he claims to be women\u2019s \u201cbiggest champion.\u201d\n\n\"'He sidelines us and doesn\u2019t take us seriously,' Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said.\n\n\"Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina said, 'Women will never be taken seriously until leadership decides to take us seriously, and I\u2019m no longer holding my breath.'\n\n\"They\u2019re being generous.\n\n\"Johnson isn\u2019t just a sexist boss. As a party leader and as a policymaker, he has systematically made life harder and more expensive for all women.\n\n\"This is someone who has never been shy about his thoughts on gender.\n\n\"He has, in public and on camera, blamed school shootings on no-fault divorce and 'radical feminism.'\n\n\"He has referred to abortion as 'a Holocaust.'\n\n\"Just a few weeks ago, he casually talked about the difference between the brains of men and women: 'Men and women are different in this way, is that men can compartmentalize things.'\n\n\"In the same interview, he praised Conference Chair Lisa McClain \u2014 the highest-ranking Republican woman in the House \u2014 as the colleague he trusts most to make him dinner.\n\n\"That low opinion of GOP women is plainly reflected in how he runs the House.\n\n\"Under Johnson\u2019s speakership, there are more Republican committee chairs named Mike than women chairs combined.\n\n\"He raged against a bipartisan bill allowing members of Congress who are pregnant or recovering from childbirth to vote by proxy. But when asked about a male colleague\u2019s domestic abuse allegations, he shrugged off the question and said: 'I\u2019ve been a little busy.'\n\n\"This disdain for women is also shaping the actual policies that Johnson gavels through the House.\n\n\"This year alone, he has shepherded legislation closing down maternity wards, banning reproductive care for American servicewomen, and mandating creepy gender inspections for young girls who want to play sports.\n\n\"Even as he joined in on the White House\u2019s new obsession with birth rates, he helped cut $1 trillion from Medicaid \u2014 a program that pays for 41 percent of births in America.\n\n\"He helped engineer an economy so catastrophic for regular families that at least 450,000 women have left the workforce.\n\n\"He looked at a country where moms\u2019 child-care costs can outpace their rent, then wrote a budget that manages to make it even more expensive.\n\n\"He saw a third of single mothers going hungry, then enacted unprecedented cuts to federal food assistance.\n\n\"He supported a poll tax on married women \u2014 a bill requiring married women who took their spouse\u2019s last name to get a $165 passport before they can vote.\n\n\"Yes, Mike Johnson has weird, retrograde views on women. But it\u2019s so much worse. His leadership is a threat to the health and security that should be our daughters\u2019 birthright.\"\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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=92C3E8F5-4818-4A6A-A926-ED8AC68BDB0B"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8348259143531322, "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"}