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How Patty Murray helped craft a compromise to fund the government despite chaos in Congress: ‘Nobody thought we could get this done’
WASHINGTON – The Senate passed a $1.2 trillion spending package early Saturday morning to fund the government through September, narrowly averting a government shutdown, after the legislation cleared the House on Friday.
Washington cherry growers to get federal loans after USDA declares 2023 harvest a disaster
WASHINGTON – Harsh weather made 2023 a bad year for Washington state cherry growers, but help is on the way after the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday granted Gov. Jay Inslee’s request for a federal disaster declaration.
After leading trip to southern border, Central Washington’s Dan Newhouse says immigration reform can’t wait
WASHINGTON – In a video recorded on Feb. 8, Rep. Dan Newhouse stood in front of a 20-foot-tall fence on the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona and gave his assessment of a crisis that is dominating American politics.
After House passes bipartisan bill to expand Child Tax Credit and cut business taxes, Idaho’s Mike Crapo largely controls its fate in the Senate
WASHINGTON – In a rare show of bipartisan lawmaking, the House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a bill that would expand the child tax credit for parents and restore a set of tax breaks for businesses, but its fate in the Senate is uncertain.
Risch, Fulcher endorse Donald Trump for president as pressure mounts on Republicans
WASHINGTON – Monday’s caucuses in Iowa marked the start of voting to select the next Republican candidate for president, but a growing number of GOP lawmakers are treating the race like it’s already over.
WA congressman fights to withhold support for breaching 4 Snake River dams
Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., testified he will work to keep any language that would promote breaching the four lower Snake River dams in Eastern Washington out of a key House water infrastructure bill. He spoke to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure at a recent hearing on the Water Resources Development Act of 2024. He opposes any language that would allow not only the …
House approves Biden impeachment inquiry as Northwest lawmakers split along party lines
WASHINGTON – The House voted along party lines Wednesday to authorize an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, with all Republicans in favor and every Democrat opposed to the measure, which gives the GOP majority more authority to continue a yearlong investigation that has produced no evidence of the high crimes or misdemeanors for which a president can be impeached.
Northwest Republicans object to leaked draft of Snake River dams agreement
WASHINGTON – In a letter to the Biden administration Wednesday, four Inland Northwest Republicans released a leaked draft of an agreement they fear could pave the way to the eventual removal of the Lower Snake River dams.
Northwest Republicans split as House passes short-term spending bill, averting government shutdown
WASHINGTON – The House on Tuesday passed a short-term spending bill to fund the government, with nearly all Democrats and more than half of Republicans voting to avert a shutdown that would have begun at the end of the week.
House Republicans split over aid for Ukraine, casting doubt on war effort
WASHINGTON – When President Joe Biden gave his State of the Union address in March 2022, five days after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, the Republicans and Democrats who filled the chamber showed nearly unanimous support for Kyiv’s defense.
Northwest lawmakers push back on VA rule that would cut payments for air ambulances
WASHINGTON – Northwest lawmakers in the House and Senate are pushing back on a proposed Department of Veterans Affairs rule that would cut reimbursement rates for air ambulance services, a move both Democrats and Republicans say could lead to delays getting patients to the hospital.
Mike Johnson elected speaker of the House after being nominated by McMorris Rodgers
WASHINGTON – House Republicans on Wednesday elected Mike Johnson of Louisiana as House speaker, ending a three-week impasse that had stricken the chamber as warring GOP factions repeatedly failed to unite behind a leader.
House Republicans remain rudderless after Trump sinks another candidate for speaker
WASHINGTON – Another GOP candidate for House speaker lasted mere hours on Tuesday, dropping his bid soon after some Northwest Republicans endorsed him while others kept mum as former President Donald Trump attacked the party’s choice as insufficiently loyal to the “MAGA” movement.
As Jordan’s speaker bid stalls, Northwest Republicans weigh temporary fix while Democrats offer bipartisan solution
WASHINGTON – After Jim Jordan failed for the second day in a row to unite House Republicans behind his candidacy for speaker, Northwest lawmakers on Wednesday turned their attention to other solutions to the intraparty impasse that has paralyzed Congress for over two weeks.
House remains leaderless as Idaho’s Mike Simpson helps block Jim Jordan’s speaker bid
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives remained leaderless on Tuesday as a group of GOP moderates turned the tables on the hardliners who ousted the former speaker two weeks earlier, blocking Rep. Jim Jordan’s bid to lead House Republicans.
House Republicans nominate Scalise for speaker, but his confirmation remains uncertain
WASHINGTON – In a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, House Republicans voted narrowly to nominate Rep. Steve Scalise to be the next House speaker, but his path to being elected was unclear on a day when Northwest GOP lawmakers expressed support for different candidates.
Deal to avert shutdown in U.S. House backed by most members in Washington, including Republicans
Nearly all the Idaho and Washington members of the U.S. House of Representatives backed legislation approved in a surprise vote Saturday to keep the federal government open another 45 days.
‘This is historic’: Biden orders whole-of-government effort to restore salmon in Columbia, Snake rivers
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a landmark memorandum ordering federal agencies to do their part to restore salmon runs in the Columbia and Snake rivers and honor the U.S. government’s treaty obligations to Northwest tribes.
Northwest lawmakers weigh in as House GOP infighting raises government shutdown risk
WASHINGTON – As House Republicans struggled to overcome internal divisions and pass a short-term spending bill, Northwest lawmakers from both parties on Wednesday said a government shutdown appeared increasingly likely.
Sen. Murray tells House Republicans to ‘back off’ as Congress returns to D.C. with government shutdown looming
WASHINGTON – When House lawmakers return to the Capitol on Tuesday from their annual August recess, they will face a seemingly simple but often fraught task: paying the bills to avoid a government shutdown when the fiscal year ends Sept. 30.