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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statements on the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Energy and Water's approval in a subcommittee markup of legislation that would end the current forced spill order by requiring federal funds used to operate the Federal Columbia River Power System hydroelectric dams to do so in a manner that is consistent with the Army Corps of Engineers' 2017 Fish Operations Plan.
WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statements after receiving a report from the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) on its Fiscal Year 2018 additional funding spending program. The BOR report announced nearly $2 million in new funds for the Columbia Basin Project Ephrata/Pasco Pump Lateral and Potholes Supplemental Feed Route, including $750,000 for oversight and design for a pumping plant and pipeline delivery system for the Odessa Ground Water Replacement Program (OGWRP).
WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) released the following statement on President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal:
"My brother is an addict. I am raising his daughter." That is one of the many responses I received when I asked constituents of the 4th Congressional District how opioids and heroin abuse have affected people in our community. The responses are eye-opening to the heartbreaking cost of the opioid crisis in Central Washington: "The opioid crisis is destroying my family's life," and "my adult child has battled addiction for 20 years after taking post-surgery opioids at 18" are two more responses that are truly a call to action.
SUNNYSIDE – Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) announced the winners of the 2018 Congressional Art Competition for high school students in the Fourth Congressional District:
For months, my Pacific Northwest congressional colleagues and I have been raising our voices and working on legislation to prevent increasing forced spill at the lower Snake and Columbia River dams from raising electricity rates in our region by $40 million. That forced spill order, the result of a ruling of a single federal judge in Portland, took effect at the beginning of April.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) released the following statement after the House voted to approve H.R. 4 - FAA Reauthorization Act:
WASHINGTON DC - (APRIL 25, 2018) – Today, a bipartisan bill to protect the Columbia and Snake River Dams passed the House by a vote of 225 to 189. This effort, introduced by Eastern Washington Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) alongside Reps. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), Greg Walden (R-OR), and Kurt Schrader (D-OR), will protect the dams by codifying the 2014 Biological Opinion, a collaborative agreement on how to manage the river system to protect fish and support clean, renewable energy.
Sunnyside, WA – On Tuesday, Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) and Google paid a visit to Sunnyside High School to deliver the Online Safety Roadshow: How to Be Internet Awesome, an online safety assembly developed by Google for middle school students.
Rep. Newhouse participated in Tuesday's presentation and opened the assembly by expressing the importance of online safety to the students and competing in the password faceoff challenge, where students are asked to come up with the strongest possible password.
Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate, the late Elie Wiesel, once said of that horrific state-sponsored genocide that, "to forget the victims means to kill them a second time. So I couldn't prevent the first death. I surely must be capable of saving them from a second death." The world-renowned author sought to prevent victims from being forgotten through writing many books on the persecution through his experience and by helping establish the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.