| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included House passage of the American Rescue Plan and Senate confirmation of three Biden Cabinet nominees: Jennifer Granholm, Tom Vilsack, Linda Taylor-Greenfield. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, February 28th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
| Tags: | Last Week In Congress, U.S. House Roll Call Votes, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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Monthly Archives: February 2021
Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (February 22nd-27th)
U.S. House passes Biden administration’s American Rescue Plan to combat COVID-19
| Excerpt: | The vote on final passage was two hundred and nineteen to two hundred and twelve. All Republicans voted nay, and all but two Democrats voted aye. |
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| Published at: | 4:56 PM on Saturday, February 27th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Economic Security, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Budgeting, Fair Wages & Benefits, Fiscal Responsibility, Strong Commonwealth |
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U.S. House passes sweeping wilderness protection bill that includes PNW’s Olympics
| Excerpt: | The Protecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands Act designates approximately 1.5 million acres of public land as wilderness and incorporates more than 1,200 river miles into the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. |
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| Published at: | 6:00 PM on Friday, February 26th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Our Environment, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Conservation |
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Manka Dhingra’s “duty to intervene” police accountability bill gets State Senate approval
| Excerpt: | Senate Bill 5066 would require officers to intervene when they see a fellow offer engaging in excessive force. It would also require officers to report wrongdoing to their superiors. |
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| Published at: | 10:10 AM on Friday, February 26th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Ruairi Vaughan |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Legislative Advocacy |
| Tags: | Criminal Justice, Nondiscrimination |
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Ailing Fry’s Electronics is no more: Chain goes out of business after thirty-six years
| Excerpt: | The eclectic brick and mortar retailer, which was able to remain a going concern for years after the demise of competitors like Circuit City and CompUSA, has itself reached the end of the line after thirty-six years in business. |
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| Published at: | 5:03 PM on Wednesday, February 24th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Appreciations & Remembrances, Policy Topics, World Commmunity |
| Tags: | Business Shutdowns, Ethical Business |
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Kevin Mather’s departure from the Seattle Mariners was absolutely necessary
| Excerpt: | The ex-club president proved, repeatedly, that he doesn't have the qualities needed in a leader. It was absolutely necessary that the Mariners sever ties with him. |
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| Published at: | 5:30 PM on Monday, February 22nd, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Unscheduled Programming |
| Tags: | Baseball |
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The Texas-sized politics of calamity: Disasters put a spotlight on elected officials’ negligence
| Excerpt: | Will the country wake up to the need for infrastructure modernization following the horrors in Texas, or will we see right-wing politicians escape responsibility and go on demonizing clean renewable energy? |
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| Published at: | 5:10 PM on Sunday, February 21st, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | National Defense, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Climate Crisis, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Preparedness, Energy & Power |
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The airbrushing of the late Rush Limbaugh: A mocking, racist demagogue is depicted as shy, private, and “enormously generous”
| Excerpt: | For decades, Rush Limbaugh heaped abuse on people as a syndicated practitioner of hate speech. Now he's gone. His contemporaries in right wing media are now trying to memorialize a Rush who never existed. |
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| Published at: | 8:00 PM on Thursday, February 18th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Obituaries, Radio |
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Proposal to fund childcare with a capital gains tax advances in the Washington State Senate
| Excerpt: | In a historic vote, the Washington State Senate's Ways & Means Committee approved a progressive tax reform idea NPI has been championing for years. |
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| Published at: | 10:09 PM on Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Economic Security, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Budgeting, Fiscal Responsibility, Strong Commonwealth |
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Tim Eyman concedes that judge’s sentence won’t keep him out of Washington politics
| Excerpt: | Eyman's convenient pivot away from **Help me -- Attorney General Bob Ferguson is trying to ban me from politics for life!** to **Full steam ahead -- nothing's gonna stop me** was entirely predictable. |
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| Published at: | 4:11 PM on Monday, February 15th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Money in Politics, Permanent Defense, Public Records |
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Murray and Cantwell take up gavels in the Senate as heirs to Scoop and Maggie’s legacy
| Excerpt: | With Democrats now running Congress’ upper chamber again after over a half-decade of Republican control, each veteran senator chairs an influential Senate committee. |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Sunday, February 14th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy |
| Tags: | Legislative Transitions |
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Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (February 8th-13th)
| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included the Senate's failure to convict Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection against the United States and confirmation of Denis McDonough to head the VA. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, February 14th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
| Tags: | Last Week In Congress, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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Despite Republicans’ depravity, Donald Trump is and shall always remain guilty of treason
| Excerpt: | Donald Trump is guilty. He may not have been convicted of his treachery by the requisite two-thirds of the Senate as the Constitution requires. But he did the crime and he will rightly be remembered by history as a criminal and a traitor. |
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| Published at: | 2:15 PM on Saturday, February 13th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Accountable Leaders, Impeachment, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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Twenty years after the Nisqually earthquake, seismic upgrades still needed across Cascadia