Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) requested that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler perform a legitimate peer review study of the September 2012 EPA report titled, "Relation Between Nitrate in Water Wells and Potential Sources in the Lower Yakima Valley, Washington" (EPA-910-12-003), or the Yakima Valley Nitrate Report.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) released the following statement after voting to approve the supplemental appropriations package to address the humanitarian crisis at the southern border. The bill was overwhelmingly passed by the Senate by a vote of 84-8 Wednesday evening. Today, the House voted to concur with the Senate amendment by a bipartisan vote of 305-102. The bill now heads to the President's desk for signature.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) released the following statement after the passage of H.R. 3401, the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Newhouse (R-WA) released the following statement following the announcement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Department of Labor (DOL) that USDA does not intend to transfer operations of U.S. Forest Service Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers (CCCs) or close the 9 of 25 CCCs that were included in their original proposal:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) released the following statement after Admiral Schultz of the United States Coast Guard announced the newest Polar Security Cutters will remain homeported in Seattle:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) sent a letter to the leadership of the House Judiciary Committee and House Natural Resources Committee requesting a field hearing in Central Washington to discuss the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW) and Savanna's Act, legislation he introduced in May.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Dan Newhouse (R-WA), and Kurt Schrader (D-OR) led a bipartisan, bicameral group of 18 senators and 33 representatives in sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), pushing them to reverse their decision to close over one-third of Civilian Conservation Center (CCC) program facilities.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) released the following statement after voting to approve H.R. 6, the Dream and Promise Act, in the House of Representatives. The bill was approved by a vote of 237-187. Rep. Newhouse was one of only 7 Republicans who voted in support of the legislation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the United States House of Representatives passed a provision pushed by U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Congressman Dan Newhouse (WA-4) that will increase access to aid for cherry growers hurt by the unjustified retaliatory tariffs by China. The measure passed 354-58.
The provision passed the Senate in late May as part of the bipartisan disaster supplemental budget bill, which now heads to the president's desk to be signed into law. President Trump is expected to sign the bill.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representatives Dan Newhouse (R-WA) and Collin Peterson (D-MN) led a bipartisan letter to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Principal Deputy Director Margaret Everson expressing strong support for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife's proposed rule to delist the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in the lower 48 United States.