Four elected federal officials from Eastern Washington have requested a Major Disaster Declaration on behalf of the Colville Confederated Tribes.
The delegation of U.S. Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, and U.S. Reps. Dan Newhouse and Cathy McMorris Rodgers penned a missive to President Joe Biden this week in support of a request by the Colville Business Council for federal assistance in t
Washington Senator Maria Cantwell released a statement Friday night following a Congressional briefing on the ongoing situation in Afghanistan.
It reads, in its entirety, "My heart goes out to the families of the heroic service members who were killed, as well as the hundreds of Afghans who lost their lives
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4th District Rep. Dan Newhouse and Washington Senator Maria Cantwell have proposed a bill they say would improve permitting for pumped storage hydroelectric projects, create jobs in Central Washington, and protect Tribal interests and increase renewable energy production and storage
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Savanna's Act, a bill designed to help law enforcement better investigate an epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women, was signed into law by President Trump last week.
4th District Rep. Dan Newhouse was part of a bi-partisan group of legislators that introduced the bill in the House
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The Senate voted to pass the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement, better known as the USMCA, Thursday.
Washington Senator Maria Cantwell voted in favor of the deal noting Washington is one of the most trade dependent states in the country...
Senator Maria Cantwell was in Wenatchee Tuesday to discuss trade with tree fruit industry leaders. She says part of her day was seeing cherry production first hand.
"You see a lot of capital investment and it's representative of the capital investment throughout this whole valley and it's the capital investment that's at risk...
From a press release - As the United States continues to grapple with the opioid and heroin epidemic, a bill introduced by U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) to hold drug manufacturers accountable for misleading advertising and negligent distribution practices today received the support of a bipartisan group of Attorneys General from 39 U
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