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U.S. Representative · Massachusetts 5th District
Katherine M. Clark
DemocratDistrict D+24119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score18#397 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Katherine M. Clark’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2368 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-2105
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s district, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Republicans · 1 signal
- WeakBroke with Democrats on 5 of 359 recorded votes on tracked billsVoted against the majority of House Democrats on 5 of the 359 recorded yea/nay votes they cast on tracked bills (1%). The median House Democratic broke on 4%; this member ranks 210 of 214 by break rate.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 5625 Cashless Bail Reporting Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1346 To amend the Clean Air Act with respect to the ethanol waiver for Reid Vapor Pressure under that Act, and for other purposes.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.Con.Res. 58 Denouncing the horrors of socialism.
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 1582 GENIUS Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: HALT Fentanyl Act
Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 12.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3No committee assignments on record
Either this member holds no committee seats or the assignments have not been loaded yet.
Voting ideology
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Clark← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.478 is 0.08 to the left of the House Democratic median (-0.393).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Democratic average- 119th Congress0House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 151–200 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. 4530A bill to amend chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United States Code, to authorize an increase of the retirement age for members of the Capitol Police.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 35
| Middle |