| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included House passage of the Great American Outdoors Act and House/Senate passage of a major military appropriations bill. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, July 26th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy |
| Tags: | Last Week In Congress, U.S. House Roll Call Votes, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (July 20th-24th)
Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (June 29th-July 3rd)
| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included House passage of a $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill and Patient Protection Act expansion plus the Senate's failure to endorse a total withdrawal from Afghanistan. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, July 5th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy |
| Tags: | Last Week In Congress, U.S. House Roll Call Votes, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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COVID-19 Update: Pacific Northwest embraces mandatory mask directives
| Excerpt: | As British Columbia makes additional moves to reopen its economy, Washington has mandated the wearing of masks in public and Oregon has completed a special legislative session focusing on COVID-19 and police reform. |
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| Published at: | 10:30 PM on Monday, June 29th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Rich Erwin |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Healthcare, Legislative Advocacy |
| Tags: | 2019-2020 Coronavirus Pandemic, COVID-19 Update, Criminal Justice, Personal Wellness |
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Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (June 22nd-26th)
| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included House passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020 and a D.C. statehood bill, along with the failure of a Senate Republican policing reform proposal. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, June 28th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy |
| Tags: | Last Week In Congress, U.S. House Roll Call Votes, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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COVID-19 Update: States grapple with rise in new coronavirus cases in rural communities
| Excerpt: | Seeking to avoid squandering the hard won progress of the spring, Pacific Northwest governors and public health officials are exhorting and even ordering their constituents to wear masks. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 PM on Sunday, June 21st, 2020 |
| Written by: | Rich Erwin |
| Other Categories: | Healthcare |
| Tags: | COVID-19 Update, Personal Wellness |
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Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (June 15th-19th)
| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included passage of a landmark public lands funding bill and the confirmation of one of Mitch McConnell's protege to the D.C. Circuit Court. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, June 21st, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy |
| Tags: | Last Week In Congress, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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The Pandemic is Personal: Patti Dailey on adjusting to not going out during COVID-19
| Excerpt: | A Pierce County activist and public servant reflects on keeping up a strict physical distancing regimen to avoid contracting COVID-19. |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Saturday, June 20th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Patti Dailey |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Healthcare |
| Tags: | Personal Wellness, The Pandemic is Personal |
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Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (June 8th-12th)
| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included the advancement of a major public lands funding bill and the confirmation of Charles Brown as U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, June 14th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy |
| Tags: | Last Week In Congress, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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The Pandemic is Personal: Rituja Indapure on how COVID-19 has changed everyday life
| Excerpt: | One of NPI's Advisory Councilmembers describes her spring with the pandemic in a series of journal entries recorded at one month intervals. |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Saturday, June 13th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Rituja Indapure |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Healthcare, Public Service, World Commmunity |
| Tags: | Personal Wellness, The Pandemic is Personal |
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COVID-19 Update: Food, transparency, and the fallout in our hardest hit communities
| Excerpt: | Food processing facilities remain a primary coronavirus outbreak nexus. We look at the fallout in that industry and highlight two areas within the Pacific Northwest hard hit by the pandemic in this installment of COVID-19 Update. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 PM on Sunday, June 7th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Rich Erwin |
| Other Categories: | Healthcare, World Commmunity |
| Tags: | 2019-2020 Coronavirus Pandemic, COVID-19 Update, Global Health, Personal Wellness |
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Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (June 1st-5th)
| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included the confirmation of Trump appointees to head the Voice of America and a new position, inspector general of COVID-19 relief funds. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, June 7th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy |
| Tags: | Last Week In Congress, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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Scramble for the Senate: Can Democrats take out Maine’s Susan Collins with Sara Gideon?
| Excerpt: | The Pine Tree State is home to the last supposedly reasonable Republican senator in New England, but her votes for Brett Kavanaugh and the Republican tax scam have shown she's just an enabler of the Trump agenda. |
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| Published at: | 5:00 PM on Friday, June 5th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Ruairi Vaughan |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | ME-Sen, Scramble for the Senate |
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Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (July 27th-31st)