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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statements after the U.S. Senate approved H.R. 5504, to designate the U.S. Postal Service facility at 4801 West Van Giesen Street in West Richland, Washington as the "Sergeant Dietrich Schmieman Post Office." Rep. Newhouse introduced H.R.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, on a vote of 196-180, the House of Representatives approved bipartisan legislation introduced by Congressman Sean Duffy (R-WI) and Congressman Dan Newhouse (R-WA) to return management of gray wolves to state control. Congressman Newhouse issued the following statement:
WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) released the following statement after the House Committee on Natural Resources approved federal legislation introduced by Rep. Newhouse to transfer title of U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) related works and lands to the Kennewick Irrigation District (KID).
WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statements after the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) recently released its FY19 Distribution of Additional Funding that includes $7.1 million to the Columbia Basin Project Ephrata office, allocating up to $2 million for design and oversight to the Odessa Ground Water Replacement Program (OGWRP).
November 11th of this year marks the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended World War I. Over the course of that conflict, 116,516 American military personnel lost their lives. The deadliest battle in U.S. history was at Argonne Forest, from September 26, 1918 lasting more than a month, until the Armistice. The battle involved more than one million American soldiers and resulted in more than 26,000 American military deaths. The toll was unimaginable, but the U.S. contribution and heavy sacrifice on behalf of the Allied cause turned the tide.
SURESNES, FRANCE—With the world reflecting on the centennial of the Armistice of World War I, U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) laid wreaths Saturday at Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial just outside of Paris, France to honor three Washington natives who lost their lives or went missing in "The Great War."
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) released the following statement on the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) proposed rulemaking which could help farmers advertise job openings to domestic workers as required under the H-2A visa program. The DOL rulemaking would require that employers seeking to hire temporary workers post the employment opportunities online, which is in line with today's modern recruitment practices for employers and job seekers as well as reducing employers' recruitment costs.
Last week, I met a couple angels in the Tri-Cities.
No, really: I had the opportunity to sit down with James and Angie Sessions of Pasco.
A few years ago, James and Angie were inspired to become foster parents after learning about the foster care system while at a local church's camp for children in state custody. The Sessions fostered two separate sets of siblings who ended up being reunited with family members – an experience that came with the very real emotional toll that can come with providing a temporary home.
RICHLAND, WA – Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) recognized Pasco residents James and Angie Sessions with the 2018 Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute's "Angels in Adoption" award. November is National Adoption Month, and Rep. Newhouse honored the Sessions family for their outstanding advocacy of adoption and foster care issues.
Every calendar year, Social Security Administration (SSA) automatically calculates the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for beneficiaries based on the consumer-price index, which measures changes in the price level of a defined set of consumer goods and services purchased by households. Earlier this month, SSA announced that it would raise the COLA by 2.8 percent in 2019, the largest COLA increase in seven years. That increase may not sound like a large amount, but it is more than the COLA increase of 2 percent in 2018 and 0.3 percent in 2017. In 2016, there was no increase at all.