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Congresswoman Suzan DelBene’s return to Washington State’s 1st District from Washington, D.C. this spring has been filled with opportunities to engage with her constituents. Last week, she held a town hall event at Lake Washington High School in Kirkland, where those in attendance could ask her questions and share their thoughts about the issues that matter to them.… Read more »

MOUNT VERNON — Even after school, the hallways and classrooms at LaVenture Middle School are bustling with activity. Some kids are catching up on homework in a computer lab, others are working on their math skills, and some are experimenting with Mentos candies and soda bottles. The students, as well as their counterparts at Mount Baker Middle School, aren’t there… Read more »

Hundreds of residents in Washington’s 1st Congressional District came to ask and listen to U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene’s answer questions during a town hall meeting at Glacier Peak High School last Tuesday. Topics ranged from President Donald Trump’s political strategies to health care reform, and a last-minute discussion on climate change. Many wanted to know how they… Read more »

SNOHOMISH — U.S. Rep Suzan DelBene fielded questions about health care, investigations of President Donald Trump’s ties to the Russian government and the prospect of nuclear war during a town hall meeting Tuesday. A couple of hundred people packed the bleachers at the Glacier Peak High School gym to ask questions of DelBene, a Democrat who represents Washington’s 1st… Read more »

As Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives hem and haw over when and how to make a second attempt at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, President Trump has an opportunity to work with Democrats to keep one of his campaign promises and claim a major victory: protecting Social Security. Trump, in his promise, meant that he wouldn’t seek cuts to Social Security… Read more »

An executive order from President Trump, signed on the eve of Equal Pay Day, has canceled an Obama policy that directed companies with federal contracts to afford equal treatment to women in the workplace. The Obama policy had also barred federal contractors from steering sexual harassment complaints into private arbitration, which often favors the employer. Quietly last week, Trump… Read more »

This week, I spent a few days in the “other Washington” where I had the opportunity to meet with the members of our federal legislative delegation and their staffs. I shared with them the invaluable, vital work that our University of Washington community does to expand the frontiers of scientific research, improve… Read more »

A bipartisan group of Western lawmakers want to find a better way to help communities protect themselves from landslides. The National Landslide Preparedness Act aims to fill in the gaps in scientific knowledge about which areas of the country face potential landslides by increasing the amount of data available on areas at risk for landslides and help communities build infrastructure to… Read more »

MOUNT VERNON — On any given day, Mount Vernon police officer Edgar Serrano fields a variety of questions from families on his beat in the Kulshan neighborhood. Some people want to know how to obtain a driver's license, while others seek clarification on city laws. But since November, one question has come up more frequently for Serrano, a 10-year veteran of the Mount Vernon… Read more »

Seattle-area Congress members Suzan DelBene and Dave Reichert squared off in their House Ways and Means Committee over an attempt to force Donald Trump to disclose his tax returns. DelBene represents the First Congressional District, stretching from Kirkland and Redmond north to the Canadian border. Reichert is in the eastside's Eighth District, going from Issaquah and Kent all the way… Read more »