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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:
People from all over the world come to the United States for a chance to live a better life. Some are coming here to work, some are coming to reunite with their families, and some are escaping corrupt governments. We should welcome them with a strong legal immigration system.
This past week, we commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Normandy, otherwise known as D-Day. Many of us know D-Day as an event that eventually resulted in victory for the Allied forces in World War II. Thousands of brave American soldiers sacrificed their lives for the greater good and helped to secure the freedom we enjoy today.
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.
The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) motto is, "Caring for the land and serving people." That is exactly what the students of USFS Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers do.
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.