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Ranking and ready to chair: Rick Larsen is set to be the top Democrat on the U.S. House’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

by Joel Connelly

Larsen will suc­ceed out­go­ing com­mit­tee chair­man, Oregon’s Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Peter DeFazio, who is retir­ing after serv­ing thir­ty-six years in Con­gress. He beat out D.C.‘s Del­e­gate Eleanor Holmes Nor­ton for the com­mit­tee’s top Demo­c­ra­t­ic spot. Larsen has served as chair­man of the panel’s Avi­a­tion Subcommittee.

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Councilmember Dave Upthegrove will be the 2023 Chair of the King County Council

by Andrew Villeneuve

“My pri­or­i­ty will be to sup­port and strength­en our demo­c­ra­t­ic insti­tu­tions and demon­strate that democ­ra­cy can work,” Upthe­grove said in a state­ment pub­lished by the Coun­cil. “Our guid­ing val­ue will be respect. This means respect for one anoth­er, for our excep­tion­al staff, and for the peo­ple we serve.”

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Washington State Senate Democrats announce leadership changes, committee assignments for 2023 legislative session

by Andrew Villeneuve

Fresh of an out­stand­ing midterm elec­tion cycle in which every front­line Demo­c­ra­t­ic sen­a­tor’s reelec­tion was secured, the Wash­ing­ton State Sen­ate Democ­rats on Decem­ber 1st announced a set of lead­er­ship changes for the 2023 ses­sion along with the cau­cus’ com­plete com­mit­tee assignments. 

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Thank you, Speaker Pelosi

by Andrew Villeneuve

Our team at NPI thanks Speak­er Pelosi for her tremen­dous con­tri­bu­tions to our coun­try. As she said, quot­ing Scrip­ture, for every­thing, there is a sea­son. The time is right to pass the baton to a new gen­er­a­tion of lead­er­ship and cel­e­brate an incred­i­ble run that secured the pas­sage of leg­is­la­tion Amer­i­can fam­i­lies needed.

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First Lady Jill Biden arrives in Seattle for a two-day set of events in the Pacific Northwest

by Aaron Cahen

Dr. Biden is in the Pacif­ic North­west to tour Bates Tech­ni­cal Col­lege in Taco­ma, speak at a fundrais­er for Sen­a­tor Pat­ty Mur­ray’s reelec­tion cam­paign, and par­tic­i­pate in a Hid­den Helpers Coali­tion Event with the Eliz­a­beth Dole Foun­da­tion and Wound­ed War­rior Project at the Pacif­ic Sci­ence Center.

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Judge Jackson: A model of class and patience confronted by classless interrogators

by Joel Connelly

The com­mit­tee hear­ings have wit­nessed the dog whis­tles of white suprema­cy, wild for­ays into irrel­e­vance, and the kind of raw dem­a­goguery that then-Sen­ate Judi­cia­ry Com­mit­tee Chair­man James East­land deployed on the first Black Amer­i­cans nom­i­nat­ed to the fed­er­al bench. It was a class­less effort by Repub­li­cans to dis­cred­it a nom­i­nee who embod­ies class.

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President Biden: “This is our moment to meet and overcome the challenges of our time”

by Joel Connelly

Amer­i­cans wit­nessed basic Joe Biden in this week’s State of the Union speech, the uni­fi­er who has ral­lied NATO and brought the world’s democ­ra­cies clos­er togeth­er in response to Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine, and the frus­trat­ed would-be heal­er of a nation’s hurts while deal­ing with a pro­longed pandemic.