Weekly Columns and Op-Eds
With a unified Republican federal government, my colleagues and I in Congress and in the Trump administration are working to strengthen America’s energy infrastructure and achieve energy dominance. Every energy source across the sector is key in achieving this goal, but my district in central Washington is home to a vital piece of infrastructure in that mix: hydroelectric dams.
Recently, it seems the daily news is filled with rampant misinformation around the budget resolution passed by the House of Representatives and my vote to support it. Activist campaigns and false media reports are attempting to paint a picture that Republicans in the House voted to cut funding to Medicaid and Medicare.
As a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, my colleagues and I extensively fought the previous administration over their refusal to enforce laws addressing illegal immigration.
Last week, I led a resolution in the House of Representatives to censure Representative Al Green (D-TX) for his actions during the president’s address to a Joint Session of Congress. The House passed my resolution with a bipartisan vote of 224-198-2, with ten of my Democratic colleagues voting to support the measure.
The national debt continues to grow at an exponential rate, and with unified Republican control of the federal government, we have an opportunity to rethink how we manage taxpayer dollars.
As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) deepens its roots in the United States and around the world, Congress must strongly respond and defend our sovereignty. The Trump administration has implemented a strong position on the efforts of our greatest adversary.
In the fight against hunger, the United States has been the global leader in delivering much needed aid for decades. For nearly 70 years the Food for Peace program within the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has successfully fed over four billion people in more than 150 countries with American agriculture products.
As fentanyl continues to ravage communities across the United States, the Trump Administration has taken measures to ensure Canada, Mexico, and China are doing their due diligence to address this crisis.
As a proven reliable and affordable source of baseload energy, hydroelectric dams supply the Pacific Northwest with nearly 90 percent of the region’s renewable energy. Here in Central Washington, these carbon-free sources are the key to our demand-driven grid and a variety of other benefits like transportation, barging, and irrigation.
Over 80 million acres of forests in the United States are overgrown and undermanaged, primarily due to burdensome federal regulations. These conditions are the kindling to the wildfires that ravage our lands every year, a challenge Central Washington is certainly no stranger to.