The week’s major votes included House passage of a Republican bill to scrap the United States’ requirement that foreign tourists be vaccinated against COVID-19 and Senate confirmation of DeAndrea Gist Benjamin to be a judge on the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Senate State Government Committee hears NPI’s bill to give cities and towns the freedom to switch their elections to even years
Read our recap of the February 10th, 2023 public hearing on Senate Bill 5723, prime sponsored by Senator Javier Valdez at NPI’s request and cosponsored by half of the Senate Democratic caucus.
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President Biden challenges Congress to help him “finish the job” of getting America back on track in upbeat State of the Union address
“To my Republican friends, if we could work together in the last Congress, there is no reason we can’t work together and find consensus on important things in this Congress,” said Biden. “The people sent us a clear message. Fighting for the sake of fighting, power for the sake of power, conflict for the sake of conflict, gets us nowhere.”
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VICTORY! Washington State Senate votes to remove death penalty and Eyman’s two-thirds nonsense from our state’s body of laws
Senate Bill 5087, prime sponsored by Senator Jamie Pedersen (D‑43rd District: Seattle) and requested by Attorney General Bob Ferguson, would formally scrub a long list of statutes no longer in effect from the Revised Code of Washington.
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Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (January 23rd-27th)
The week’s major votes included House passage of the NOTAM Improvement Act and the Chance to Compete Act, along with Senate confirmation of Brendan Owens to be the Defense Department’s Assistant Secretary for Energy, Installations and Environment.
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NPI urges Senate to advance constitutional amendment to protect reproductive freedom
Read NPI’s founder’s remarks in support of Senate Joint Resolution 8202, a proposed constitutional amendment which declares that “the state shall not deny or interfere with an individual’s reproductive freedom decisions.”
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Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (January 9th-13th)
The week’s major votes included House passage of a Republican bill to roll back part of the Inflation Reduction Act and the adoption of several antiabortion resolutions pushed by Republicans.
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NPI-requested bill to repeal Eyman’s push polls moves out of Senate State Government
After getting a hearing on the second day of session earlier this week, the bill was reported out of the Senate State Government & Elections Committee with a “do pass” majority recommendation.
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McCarthy’s uneasy majority tries to give rich tax cheats a gift as its first legislative act
“Only this extreme Republican majority would use its first bill of the 118th Congress to embolden tax cheats and cut services for working Americans: For decades, Republicans have been cutting necessary resources from the IRS,” Representative Suzan DelBene, D‑Washington, a member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, said in a statement.
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Governor Inslee delivers first in-person State of the State Address since pandemic’s onset
Read NPI’s recap of the annual address delivered by Washington Governor Jay Inslee to a joint session of the Legislature on the second day of the 2023 legislative session.
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NPI to Legislature: Let’s make voting in WA easier by abolishing Eyman’s “advisory votes”
Read the written version of the testimony prepared by NPI’s founder and executive director in support of NPI’s 2023 bill to repeal Tim Eyman’s “advisory votes.”
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Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (January 3rd-7th)
The week’s only consequential vote was the fifteenth attempt to elect a Speaker of the House, which ended in a Pyrrhic victory for Republican Kevin McCarthy.
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Washington State House Democrats set committee assignments for 2023 session
Several committees have been given new names and scopes, and several have new chairs. The membership of most committees has also changed in the wake of retirements and the election of new members to the House. Here’s a summary of those changes.
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Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (December 5th-9th)
The week’s major votes included House final passage of the Respect for Marriage Act and Senate confirmation of more than half a dozen of President Biden’s judicial nominees.