The U.S. House of Representatives, casting off its year-long dysfunction, on Thursday passed a five-year, $305 billion transportation bill that includes a provision reviving the U.S. Export-Import Bank. The legislation moved across the U.S. Capitol and was passed late last night by the Senate. It goes to President Obama for signature. The Boeing Co. is the country’s biggest exporter of manufacturing products with sales of passenger jets to foreign airlines. Loans guaranteed by the Export-Import...
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It’s official. Community efforts to prevent a proposed radio tower farm from being built on the Point have succeeded. November 30 was the last day that BBC Broadcasting could appeal the most recent legal ruling that the proposed array of five 150-foot AM radio towers was not allowed under existing zoning. Their failure to do so amounted to their abandoning their project, according to Jennifer Urquhart, treasurer with the Cross Border Coalition to Stop the Radio Towers. The grassroots coalition ...
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U.S. representative Suzan DelBene (D-1, WA) is one of the Democrats sitting on a special 14-member house committee that the Republicans set up to investigate Planned Parenthood. The investigations were prompted by undercover videos of Planned Parenthood officials that appear to catch Planned Parenthood discussing the sale of fetal tissue for profit; that’s illegal. The frankly amateurish videos, however, are highly edited and Planned Parenthood executive director Cecile Richards has dismissed t...
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A group of 94 U.S. House Democrats led by Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.) introduced on Thursday a congressional resolution that would designate June 26 as “LGBT Equality Day.” The day selected for the occasion marks the anniversary of three monumental U.S. Supreme Court decisions in favor of gay rights: Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 ruling striking down state sodomy bans; Windsor v. United States, the 2013 ruling against Section 3 of the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act; and Obergefell v. Hodges, th...
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The U.S. government may soon need a warrant to access your old emails, thanks to a bill that seeks to close a decades-old loophole that was considered on Tuesday at a House Judiciary Committee hearing.
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Six Democratic members of Congress, including Washington Rep. Suzan Delbene, have urged House Speaker Paul Ryan to disband a select committee appointed to probe Planned Parenthood, citing last Friday’s killings at a Planned Parenthood women’s health clinic in Colorado and other attacks on health centers.
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WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee began considering a bill Tuesday to update a nearly 30-year-old law that allows government agents to read Americans' emails without a search warrant if the messages are at least six months old.
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MOUNT VERNON — As she stretched out her arms, fourth-grader Danika Barker learned she’d have a long way to go to match the wingspan of a bald eagle.
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Frantic crowds, long lines and big box stores -- that's not the scene you'll find at the Junction in West Seattle, where stores are rolling out deals and special events to lure locals to shop small this weekend.
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