"The Extremists Are Running It": Rep. Katherine Clark Predicts Gridlock In The House

By Jon Keller, CBS Boston

March 23, 2023

BOSTON - During a joint appearance at a St. Patrick's Day event with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last week, President Joe Biden said, "There's no reason why we can't find common ground."

But in an exclusive WBZ interview, Revere Congresswoman Katherine Clark, the powerful House Minority Whip, painted a much gloomier picture of the prospects for bipartisan action over the next two years.

"The extremists are running it," she said of the House GOP majority. "People are in a race to take the most extreme position that they can. It's a race to the bottom in which the American people and their needs and their voices are being kept out."

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