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Health Care
Centrist Democrats Tout Practical Fixes, Not Medicare-for-AllA coalition of centrist House Democrats is urging colleagues to sign onto an Obamacare-repair bill to show voters their party has practical solutions to the issue of rising health insurance premiums. ... Read More
Oregon First
House Passes Bill to Cull Predatory Columbia River Sea LionsThe U.S. House last week passed a bill that would permit Northwest states and tribes to kill predatory sea lions feasting on vulnerable salmon and steelhead runs in the Columbia River and its tributar... Read MoreBill allowing lethal removal of sea lions passesA bill that allows tribes to lethally remove sea lions from sections of the Columbia River passed in the U.S. House on Tuesday. The bill is championed by Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, a... Read More
Immigration
Oregon Lawmakers Demand That Feds Reverse PolicyFour members of the Oregon Congressional Delegation are demanding that federal officials immediately reverse the Trump Administration’s zero-tolerance policy that they say has left asylum seekers in f... Read MoreSay It Is So, Joe: California To Reject Cancer Warning To Coffee DrinkersCalifornia officials, having concluded coffee drinking is not risky, are proposing a regulation that will essentially tell consumers they can drink without fear. If the regulation is adopted, it would... Read More
Immigration
Ore. Lawmakers Press ICE on Sheridan Detainees' RightsSens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, along with Reps. Suzanne Bonamici, Earl Blumenauer, Peter DeFazio and Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., demanded Monday that the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs ... Read More
Oregon First
One state’s plan to save a protected species is to kill another speciesFor years, hundreds of California sea lions have colonized the docks in the Oregon port town of Astoria, their loafing brown bodies serving as both a tourist attraction and a nuisance begrudgingly tol... Read More
Immigration
Oregon Lawmakers Demand Immigration Detainees Have Access To LawyersCongressional Democrats from Oregon said on Monday they are fearful that immigration detainees being held in a federal prison in Sheridan do not have access to lawyers for advice on their civil immigr... Read More
Oregon First
Editorial: Sea lions expose conflicts in environmental lawsIt must have been quite a sight. As U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader tells the story in his latest newsletter, he and representatives of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife were at Willamette Falls, whe... Read More
Oregon First
Editorial: Letter Raises Good Questions About Detroit ProjectIn the wake of last week's algae bloom at Detroit Reservoir — and the subsequent advisory from city of Salem officials about cyanotoxins in the city's drinking water — members of Oregon's congression... Read More |