Press Releases

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Enhancement Act (H.R. 1425), legislation that will build on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to lower health costs and prescription drug prices. This vote comes days after the Trump administration again asked the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the entirety of the ACA. “The Affordable Care Act has… Read more »

Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act (H.R. 7120), a sweeping police reform package led by the Congressional Black Caucus following the murders of George Floyd and too many other Black Americans at the hands of the police. This legislation will transform the culture of policing in our country to address systemic racism and help save lives.… Read more »

A coalition of 130 small business and major industry organizations, representing millions of workers and companies, has endorsed the bipartisan jobs protection bill to expand the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC) led by Representatives Suzan DelBene (WA-01), Stephanie Murphy (FL-07), and John Katko (NY-24). Expanding the ERTC is estimated to keep nearly 60 million workers at 6.1… Read more »

Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) released the following statement in response to President Trump’s call to slow down COVID-19 testing. “The assertion by the president, joking or not, that the United States should slow down COVID-19 testing is all but an admission that he and his administration have failed to adequately respond to this pandemic. After dealing with this virus for nearly… Read more »

A bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives now supports the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2019 (H.R. 3107), introduced by Representatives Suzan DelBene (WA-01), Mike Kelly (PA-16), Roger Marshall, M.D. (KS-01), and Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-07). The bill would streamline and standardize prior authorization in Medicare Advantage (MA) and make the use of prior… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) asked Juniper Networks in a letter to explain how an NSA-designed algorithm, which leading cybersecurity experts believe contains an encryption backdoor, appeared in its products and how the key to this backdoor was later changed by unknown parties. Juniper first revealed a security breach in late 2015 where an… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) announced Sophia Xu Ling, a Junior at Tesla STEM High School, as the winner of the 2020 Congressional Art Competition for Washington’s first congressional district. Sophia Xu Ling won with her watercolor piece titled, “The Suffering of the Great.” “There are so many creative, talented young people in our region which always makes the art… Read more »

Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) released the following statement after the introduction of the Justice in Policing Act, which will eliminate qualified immunity, call for independent investigations into police brutality, and make lynching a federal crime, among other changes. The bill was developed by the Congressional Black Caucus in light of the murders of George Floyd and other… Read more »

The following statement can be attributed to Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01). “As Co-Chair of the Congressional Kidney Caucus, I welcome the announcement UW Medicine is leading the medical community in addressing racial bias in our health care system by no longer using race as a correction factor when determining kidney function. The race-based correction factor, which has no… Read more »

Representative Suzan DelBene (WA-01) released the following statement today after the Trump administration submitted a report to Congress outlining its national testing strategy: “Over 1,000 lives have been lost in Washington state from this pandemic. People in my district and across our state have been responding to this crisis the longest and they deserve leadership from the federal… Read more »