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March 18, 2019
Weekly Columns and Op-Eds

This week, the Tri-Cities community will come together in honor of U.S. Marine Sergeant Dietrich Schmieman of Richland.

In a formal ceremony, community members, family, friends, Marine Corps brothers-in-arms, and local leaders will designate the U.S. Postal Service facility at 4801 West Van Giesen Street in West Richland as the "Sergeant Dietrich Schmieman Post Office Building."

Sgt. Schmieman was serving in the 2nd Raider Battalion at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina when he tragically lost his life in a cargo plane crash in Mississippi on July 10, 2017.


March 14, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and U.S. Representatives Suzan DelBene and Dan Newhouse sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer calling on him to defend the U.S. polysilicon manufacturing industry from Chinese tariffs to save hundreds of high-paying Washington jobs.


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March 12, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) released the following statement after attending the Oval Office signing ceremony during which President Trump signed a bipartisan legislative package, S. 47, the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act, into law. S. 47 included a provision to withdraw 340,000 acres in the Methow Valley from consideration for mining. The legislation passed the House last night in a vote of 363 to 62, and the Senate approved it on February 27.


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March 12, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) released the following statement after attending the Oval Office signing ceremony during which President Trump signed S. 47, the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act, a legislative package that includes H.R. 1048, the Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project Phase III Act, into law. H.R.


March 11, 2019
Weekly Columns and Op-Eds

A member of Congress makes a hateful remark, and House congressional leaders of the same political party respond by swiftly condemning and then strip that representative of all committee assignments—a severe punishment.


March 6, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) released the following statement after U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced that FWS will soon propose a rule to delist the gray wolf in the lower 48 states and return management of the species back to the states and tribes. FWS intends to publish the proposed rule in the Federal Register in the coming days, opening a public comment period on the proposal.


March 5, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the entire Washington state congressional delegation joined together to ask United States Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer to work with Japan to resolve technical issues and remove barriers to allow Washington state apples access to Japanese markets.

The letter, led by Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Representative Dan Newhouse (R-WA-4), specifically calls out Japan's overly restrictive policies that have effectively blocked Washington apple growers from shipping apples to Japan for decades.


‘Gridlock' might seem to be the best word to describe divided government in Washington D.C. these days. However, last week, despite the partisan differences in the nation's capital, bipartisanship and pragmatism won in what can only be described as a major legislative win for Central Washington.


February 27, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Newhouse (R-WA) released the following statement after voting ‘no' on H.R. 8:


February 27, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Newhouse (R-WA) released the following statement after voting in favor of a bipartisan legislative package, S. 47, the Natural Resources Management Act, which included a provision to withdraw 340,000 acres in the Methow Valley from consideration for mining. The legislation passed the House last night in a vote of 363 to 62, and the Senate approved it on February 12, so it will now head to President Trump's desk to be signed into law.