Chelan and Douglas Counties
Hastings’ Work for Chelan and Douglas Counties
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Working to protect the Wenatchee Valley Medical Center and its clinics from efforts in Congress to ban doctor-owned hospitals.
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Pressed the VA to bring a new veterans clinic to Wenatchee and introduced legislation to name the clinic after local veteran Bud Link.
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Ensuring federal commitment to local schools heavily impacted by federal land ownership thru Secure Rural Schools law ($2.7 million a year for Chelan County schools).
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Authored legislation passed by the House of Representatives to allow continued fish stocking in the North Cascades National Park.
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Authored legislation to allow reconstruction of the Stehekin Valley Road.
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Helped secure funds to repair washed out roads in National Forests and North Cascades.
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Authored legislation to enable Douglas County PUD to provide greater local control over land within the Wells Project.
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Secured funds for the George Sellar Bridge, the Pangborn Airport, Coulee Community Hospital, the Wenatchee Agriculture Research Service, water improvements for Coulee Dam and Grand Coulee.
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Worked with Chelan PUD to finalize historic Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP). |
Around Chelan and Douglas Counties:
Congressman Hastings, Senator Patty Murray and Senator
Maria Cantwell visit the Wenatchee Valley Medical Center
to discuss their ongoing efforts to stop a push by some in
Congress that want to outlaw doctor-owned health care
facilities like the Wenatchee Valley Medical Center and
its clinics.