Our District

Half a century ago, the land east of Seattle's Lake Washington was quiet countryside. Orchards and vineyards flourished in the rich, moist soil just below the rise of the Cascades Mountains, while farms and broad pasturelands spread toward 14,411-foot Mount Rainier like a living green quilt. As the Seattle area has grown over the years, people have crossed the pontoon bridge across Lake Washington and made this Eastside area one of the most vibrant parts of metropolitan Seattle.

The Eighth Congressional District includes Mount Rainier, one of the nation’s last inland old-growth rain forests. Mount Rainier is considered to be the most dangerous volcano in the Cascades because it is very steep, covered in large amounts of ice and snow, and near a large population that lives in lowland drainages.