Issue Position: Women & Children Issues

Issue Position

In the time of the #MeToo movement and the Trump Administration, women's rights are, on one hand, being taken more seriously, and on the other, being threatened. Congresswoman Clarke is a champion of women's rights, family and children's issues in Washington.

Congresswoman Clarke continues to be a steadfast defender of women's rights and healthcare. She often co-sponsors bills aimed at raising wages for women and protecting their reproductive health. She is a co-sponsor the Lilly Ledbetter Act, which was signed into law by President Obama to ensure women receive equal pay for equal work.

Congresswoman Clarke is staunch sponsor and supporter of the Affordable Care Act, so Americans of all walks of life can afford healthcare for their families, and so that their children can be insured as fully as they are, guarding them against insurance companies who often remove them from their insurance rolls when they need health insurance coverage the most.

Congresswoman Clarke remains a fierce and vocal opponent of the underfunding of Planned Parenthood. She rejects all assaults on women's healthcare and attacks on reproductive rights. She also introduced legislation to require ALD screenings for newborn babies, and co-sponsored the Healthy Family Act, allowing sick workers for those helping sick family members to receive paid leave.

Here is a snapshot of bills introduced by Congresswoman Clarke on Women & Children's Issues:

H.R. 5547 - CARE Act, which would amend the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 to reauthorize the grant program for education, training, and enhanced services to end violence against and abuse of women with disabilities.
H.R.4855 - SNAP Healthy Incentives Act of 2018, which would amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide a financial incentive for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) participants to purchase fruits and vegetables.
H.R.4260 - Adjusting for Income Disparity Act of 2012, which amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual taxpayer a new tax credit to compensate for income disparity. Sets the amount of such credit at the applicable credit amount ($2,500 to $5,000) reduced by a specified percentage (3 1/3% to 6 2/3%) of the excess of the taxpayer's modified adjusted gross income over a specified threshold ($15,000 to $30,000), based on the number of the taxpayer's dependents.
H.R.3617 - See Something, Say Something Act, which amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to require the state plan under a grant from the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for child abuse and neglect prevention and treatment programs to contain an assurance in the form of a certification by the state governor that the state has in effect and is enforcing a state law prescribing a criminal penalty against any person age 18 or older who fails to report to a state or local law enforcement official or child protective services that the person has knowledge of child abuse or neglect that occurred in the state.

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