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Suzan DelBene wants to get Russian fish sticks out of American school cafeterias. (Click to read story) Read more »

The Republican-run U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday along party lines to oppose President Obama's immigration reform plans and file a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court saying so. The House brief will oppose the President in the case of U.S. vs. Texas. The Supreme Court is taking up whether Obama acted legally with plans to defer deporting as many as 5 million undocumented… Read more »

Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) Wednesday condemned the serious safety and privacy risks posed by dangerous document requests and subpoenas being issued by Republicans on the Select Panel investigating Planned Parenthood. “Five months ago, House leaders created another Benghazi-like Select Panel — this time to target Planned Parenthood. Unable to substantiate a single… Read more »

The U.S. House of Representatives, on top of spending $5 million on a pointless, politically motivated Benghazi investigation, set up a 13-member select panel to investigate Planned Parenthood and the alleged sale for profit of fetal tissue for research. "This panel has an ideological agenda: It should be disbanded," Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., a minority member of the panel,… Read more »

OSO, Wash. -- It’s been nearly two years since a deadly landslide took the lives of 43 people near the small town of Oso. The mud and debris that came crashing down forever changed dozens of families … and their community. Now, emergency responders hope to learn from the disaster in hopes to be better prepared for the next one. “You can see the ribbons coming apart… Read more »

Considering one of the topics that President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could discuss during the Canadian leader's visit to Washington, D.C., later this week, it would be appropriate if Thursday's state dinner menu featured Columbia River salmon and wine from a Columbia Valley vineyard. Washington state Congressional leaders are hopeful that the meeting of… Read more »

In Seattle and across Washington state, women have shaped the news we consume, the air we breathe, the way we govern and how we learn. As we celebrate International Women’s Day, here are several women who have broken barriers and advanced our region. Bertha Knight Landes in 1926 became the first female mayor of Seattle — or of any major U.S. city. The mayor… Read more »

By the time Justin Webb finished his speech at the Friends of Youth luncheon in Downtown Bellevue, he was shaky but grateful for the opportunity to speak. And thee wasn't a dry eye in the ballroom. Webb was a resident for two years in a Friends of Youth home, and he said that experience with the organization kept him off the street and out of trouble — something people have… Read more »

In Whole Woman’s Health vs. Hellerstedt, Texas physicians seeking to protect women’s access to safe medical care are challenging the state’s 2013 anti-choice law (HB 2), which threatens to close more than 75 percent of clinics offering abortion care and leave many women with little meaningful ability to exercise their constitutional rights. This law applies to any… Read more »

Several Woodinville cidery owners recently talked business with U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene when she visited Woodinville’s Locust Cider on Feb. 19. Brothers Jason and Patrick Spears opened Locust Cider last March. Brian Callahan, owner of Woodinville’s Elemental Hard Cider, and Woodinville Mayor Bernie Talmas also came to meet with the congresswoman at Locust Cider. One of the… Read more »