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Senator Murray Announces More Than $30 Million in Federal Awards to Improve Public Housing Infrastructure Across Washington State

February 24, 2021 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Senator Murray Announces More Than $30 Million in Federal Awards to Improve Public Housing Infrastructure Across Washington State

(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) today announced Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awards totaling more than $30.7 million for communities across Washington state. The federal investments come from the Capital Fund Program, […]

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Cantwell on Historic Haaland Nomination: People in Indian Country “feel like they have been good stewards of public land for centuries”

February 24, 2021 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Cantwell on Historic Haaland Nomination: People in Indian Country “feel like they have been good stewards of public land for centuries”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing this morning to consider the nomination of Representative Deb Haaland to be U.S. Secretary of the Interior, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) spoke […]

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Wyden, Colleagues Call for Passage of 9/11 Style COVID-19 Commission

February 24, 2021 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Wyden, Colleagues Call for Passage of 9/11 Style COVID-19 Commission

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden today introduced bipartisan legislation that would create an independent, non-partisan commission — closely modeled after the 9/11 Commission that investigated the September 11, 2001 terror attacks — to assess the nation’s pandemic preparedness […]

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Herrera Beutler, Porter Reintroduce Organ Transplant Bill

February 23, 2021 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Herrera Beutler, Porter Reintroduce Organ Transplant Bill

U.S. Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03) and Katie Porter (CA-45) today reintroduced the Charlotte Woodward Organ Transplant Discrimination Prevention Act, which will prohibit using an individual’s mental or physical disability as the sole basis of determining […]

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Cantwell Praises “Historic Nomination” of Haaland to Lead Interior Department; Questions Nominee on Wildfires, Arctic Drilling, Coal Leasing

February 23, 2021 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Cantwell Praises “Historic Nomination” of Haaland to Lead Interior Department; Questions Nominee on Wildfires, Arctic Drilling, Coal Leasing

WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing to consider the nomination of Representative Deb Haaland to be U.S. Secretary of the Interior, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) praised her nomination […]