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U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., has done time in a congressional purgatory -- a House panel set up by Republicans to torment Planned Parenthood -- and is now stepping into a heavenly committee assignment. DelBene, a former Microsoft executive, has been named to the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. Ads by… Read more »

OLYMPIA — A politically contentious investigation by Congressional Republicans into the practices of Planned Parenthood and procuring of fetal tissue for research quietly concluded this week. It’s almost certain the fight isn’t over. The House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives filed its final report Tuesday, ending a 15-month, $1.59 million undertaking that… Read more »

Congresswoman Suzan DelBene spent an hour volunteering at the Sky Valley Food Bank in Monroe recently, passing out food during its Wednesday morning distribution service. DelBene has been an advocate for food insecurity programs during her time in Congress. Although committee appointments have not been finalized for the 2017 Congress, DelBene has served on the House Agriculture Committee… Read more »

The importance of data security and encryption — starting with our smartphones and our email and other online accounts on up to corporate and government data servers — should be more than clear now, following the revelations of Russian hackers attempting to mess with the U.S. presidential election, not to mention Yahoo’s repeated security breaches involving millions of… Read more »

A new report from Congress concludes that while widespread encryption is a challenge for law enforcement, it is "essential to both individual privacy and national security." But it also concludes that those outlooks are not mutually exclusive. That is the takeaway from a bipartisan working group created by the leadership of the House Energy & Commerce Committee and the… Read more »

Democratic politicians and a bevy of Puget Sound-area human rights activists convened at the Seattle Center on Monday to loudly proclaim that the state of Washington is a "Hate Free Zone." The Governor quoted Nobel laureate and Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel. U.S. Rep.-elect Pramila Jayapal evoked the post 9/11 movement to make Seattle a "hate free zone" U.S. Rep.… Read more »

A Democratic lawmaker intends to reintroduce her bill to ban any religious registry. The legislation is aimed at a possible registry of Muslims, which President-elect Donald Trump has discussed. Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.) sponsored legislation in the last Congress intended to prevent such a registry. She said she wants to "make it very, very clear" that "religious… Read more »

Rep. Suzan DelBene (D) from Washington’s 1st Congressional District spent the morning of Dec. 19 in an eighth-grade classroom at Stella Schola Middle School in Redmond. DelBene co-taught a physics lesson with teacher Brigitte Tennis. Click here for the full story. Read more »

Neither is in abundant supply in Washington, D.C., but compromise and bipartisanship showed up this week as the U.S. House of Representatives passed the 21st Century Cures Act, legislation that provides funding for research and crucial public health programs, including $1 billion to help communities fight the opioid crisis. The act, specifically sought by the region’s 1st and 2nd… Read more »

U.S. representative Suzan DelBene (D-WA, 1) continued to be an outspoken dissident on the Republicans’ “Select Panel on Infant Lives” committee; the congressional committee was put together more than a year ago to investigate Planned Parenthood and the alleged illegal sale of fetal tissue after undercover videos—since revealed as altered and heavily… Read more »