Address the climate crisis.

Katherine M. Clark · Massachusetts · Democratic

policy impact 2.00 specificity 2.00 extraction confidence 90%

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addressing the climate crisis

Clark lists addressing the climate crisis as an urgent remaining priority.

Katherine Clark for Congress
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As Democratic Whip, I am committed to taking even bolder climate action to protect our planet and our future.

Clark commits to taking bolder climate action as Democratic Whip.

Climate Change | Congresswoman Katherine Clark
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Evidence

"The funds supporting the shared-use path design are part of the $4 million that Clark earmarked from the federal budget for the development of climate-resilient projects in the Massachusetts 5th Congressional District, such as a public riverfront park near the Malden Department of Public Works yard."

Clark publicly tied $4 million in federal budget earmarks to climate-resilient projects and announced $1 million for a shared-use path design, showing concrete climate-related funding action in the lookback window.

partial same_term A for effort

Your Arlington: Clark secures $1M for Mystic River Path to Minuteman Bikeway Project design | Congresswoman Katherine Clark
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"As Democratic Whip, I am committed to taking even bolder climate action to protect our planet and our future." The page also lists the May 8, 2026 item "Whip Clark Secures Over $4 Million To Improve Climate Resiliency, Accessibility in MA-5."

Her official climate issue page was updated in the lookback window and points to the same May 8 climate-resiliency funding action, but it does not show a broader legislative or regulatory climate solution being delivered.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Climate Change | Congresswoman Katherine Clark
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 83%

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Clark's campaign site said urgent work remained, including "addressing the climate crisis," and said she was running for re-election in 2022.

Establishes the campaign promise context: Clark expressly named addressing the climate crisis as unfinished work in her federal re-election campaign materials.

unresolved same_term

Katherine Clark for Congress
campaign · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 95%

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Under "Climate Change, Energy & The Environment," the campaign said there is a responsibility to protect the planet, invest in clean energy, and center environmental justice; it credited Clark with helping pass the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

The campaign defined the climate promise around clean energy, environmental justice, and infrastructure, and identified the infrastructure law as part of Clark's climate-related record.

partial same_term A for effort

Katherine Clark for Congress | Priorities
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The Clerk recorded Roll Call 420 on H.R. 5376 as passed, 220-207; Rep. Clark (MA), Democrat, Massachusetts, voted Yea.

Clark voted for final House passage of H.R. 5376, the reconciliation bill that became the Inflation Reduction Act, a major federal climate law.

partial same_term A for effort

Roll Call 420 | Bill Number: H. R. 5376
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 98%

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Congress.gov lists H.R. 5376 as becoming Public Law No. 117-169 on August 16, 2022, and its summary includes energy security provisions for clean electricity, renewable resources, clean vehicles, clean manufacturing, and carbon-emissions reduction.

The bill Clark supported became law and contained extensive clean-energy and emissions-related provisions, showing substantial but not complete climate delivery.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R.5376 - 117th Congress (2021-2022)
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Clark's office said the Inflation Reduction Act was the largest climate investment in congressional history, would put the U.S. on a path to roughly 40% carbon-emissions reduction by 2030, and included clean-energy, clean-vehicle, manufacturing, decarbonization, and disadvantaged-community investments.

Clark publicly claimed the IRA as climate-crisis legislation with concrete emissions and investment provisions, supporting partial fulfillment through enacted federal law.

partial same_term A for effort

Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark Celebrates the Passage of Historic Legislation to Lower Heath Care Costs, Tackle Climate Crisis, and Build Stronger, Green Economy
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 96%

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The Clerk recorded Roll Call 369 on H.R. 3684 as passed, 228-206; Rep. Clark (MA), Democrat, Massachusetts, voted Yea.

Clark voted for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which her campaign and office tied to climate resilience, transit, clean buses, and EV charging investments.

partial same_term A for effort

Roll Call 369 | Bill Number: H. R. 3684
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 97%

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Congress.gov says H.R. 3684 became Public Law No. 117-58 and provided funding for public transit, grid reliability and resiliency, coastal resiliency, ecosystem restoration, weatherization, clean school buses and ferries, electric vehicle charging, and climate-change-related transportation resilience.

The infrastructure law Clark supported enacted several climate mitigation and adaptation investments, contributing to partial delivery of the promise.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R.3684 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 96%

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Clark's official issue page says the Inflation Reduction Act was the largest climate investment in history and put the country on track to slash carbon pollution by 40% this decade; it also says the fight for the planet is far from over.

Her office points to IRA and infrastructure-law achievements while acknowledging further action is still needed, which fits partial rather than full fulfillment.

partial same_term A for effort

Climate Change | Congresswoman Katherine Clark
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 92%

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Congress.gov lists Rep. Clark, Katherine M. [D-MA-5] as an original cosponsor of H.Res.332 on April 20, 2021; the resolution remained introduced/referred rather than enacted.

Clark backed a broader Green New Deal resolution, showing concrete climate effort, but the measure did not become law and therefore does not by itself fulfill the promise.

never same_term A for effort

Cosponsors - H.Res.332 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal
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The House-posted item said the path-design funds were part of more than $4 million Clark earmarked from the federal budget for climate-resilient projects in Massachusetts' 5th Congressional District.

Clark secured district-level climate-resiliency funding, a concrete local delivery item, but it is only a slice of the broad climate-crisis promise.

partial same_term A for effort

Your Arlington: Clark secures $1M for Mystic River Path to Minuteman Bikeway Project design | Congresswoman Katherine Clark
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 88%

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Congress.gov says H.R. 1 became Public Law No. 119-21; its summary describes a subchapter terminating multiple energy-related federal tax credits, including clean vehicle, alternative fuel refueling, residential clean energy, clean hydrogen, and wind and solar clean electricity credits.

Later federal law rolled back or terminated multiple clean-energy incentives, limiting the durability and completeness of earlier climate delivery as of the assessment date.

partial later_term

H.R.1 - 119th Congress | Congress.gov
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The Clerk recorded the final House vote on agreeing to the Senate amendment to H.R. 1 as 218-214; Rep. Clark (MA), Democrat, Massachusetts, voted No.

Clark voted against the later law that terminated multiple clean-energy credits, showing effort to oppose a climate-policy rollback even though the rollback passed.

partial later_term A for effort

Roll Call 190 | Bill Number: H.R. 1
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Assessments

partial same_term A for effort

Clark made and advanced federal climate-related commitments through votes for enacted laws including the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and Inflation Reduction Act, both of which contained major clean energy, emissions reduction, resiliency, transit, EV, and environmental justice investments. She also secured district-level climate resiliency funding and backed broader climate measures such as the Green New Deal resolution. However, the promise to address the climate crisis was broad and ongoing rather than a discrete fully completed outcome; her own office described the fight as unfinished, and later federal action rolled back some clean-energy incentives. This supports partial fulfillment during the same federal term, with clear effort credit.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 94%

partial same_term A for effort

Clark shows concrete climate-related action by steering federal earmarks to climate-resilient projects in MA-5, including more than $4 million and a $1 million path-design award. That is meaningful delivery on a slice of the promise, but the evidence does not show a broader legislative or executive solution that would amount to fully addressing the climate crisis.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 88%

partial same_term A for effort

Clark took concrete federal action during her current House term by securing over $4 million in appropriations for climate-resilient projects in Massachusetts' 5th District, including funding tied to resilient transportation and riverfront infrastructure. That is relevant candidate-creditable action toward addressing climate impacts. However, the promise is broad, and the evidence shows localized resiliency funding rather than a major enacted climate policy or comprehensive federal climate-crisis outcome, so this warrants partial credit rather than full delivery.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 86%