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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. Read more »

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. Read more »

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. Read more »

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. Read more »

Congresswoman Suzan DelBene joined a panel of experts on privacy policy at the UW’s Evans School of Public Policy & Governance on Monday morning to discuss the need for regulation of mass aerial surveillance. Last February, DelBene and fellow lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill to reform outdated privacy legislation, which provided a starting point for the panel’s discussion. Read more »

Earlier this year, news reports revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been conducting aerial surveillance missions over many U.S. cities. The reports suggested that some of the aircraft were equipped with devices, such as StingRays and high resolution cameras, which can capture massive amounts of data including images, emails, texts, calls and geolocation. While… Read more »

In 2012, voters in Washington state passed Initiative 502, which legalized the sale, consumption and taxation of marijuana products. Including Washington, 23 states and the District of Columbia have legalized some form of marijuana, and in 2016, several more states are expected to consider marijuana legalization ballot initiatives. Yet, marijuana possession or use for any purpose is… Read more »

When members of the U.S. Congress form a “fact-finding” select committee, they often spend their time in other ways. Grandstanding, point scoring, and political theater can take precedence over any actual investigation. And that’s especially true when the focus is a hot button issue like abortion rights. This is the situation in which U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA)… Read more »

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It's a Catch-22 common to Native American tribes in rural areas. Telecommunications companies will say it's not profitable for them to provide services, but when tribes try to create their own telecoms, the companies prevent them from doing so. Travis Hill, operations manager for Salish Networks in Tulalip, was part of a roundtable of state tribal representatives who brought their… Read more »