| Excerpt: | All forty-nine Washington State senators have voted to pass a bill that would establish a grant program to upgrade seismically vulnerable school buildings in Washington State, providing sorely needed funds to ensure our kids have safe facilities to learn in. |
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| Published at: | 8:07 PM on Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Education, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Emergency Preparedness, School Funding |
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Category Archives: National Defense
Washington State Senate unanimously passes much needed school seismic safety grant bill
Big news! Meaningful school seismic safety bills have been introduced in the Legislature
| Excerpt: | The bills (HB 2095 and SB 5933) would create a school seismic safety grant program, backed by general obligation bonds that would need to be voter-approved in a special statewide vote to be held in November of 2022. |
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| Published at: | 11:14 PM on Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Education, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Emergency Preparedness, School Funding |
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Read President Biden’s speech marking the anniversary of the January 6th attack
| Excerpt: | Access the complete transcripts of the speeches delivered by Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden at the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2022. |
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| Published at: | 12:00 PM on Thursday, January 6th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Appreciations & Remembrances, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Ending Terrorism, January 6th Attack on the Capitol, Speech Transcripts |
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The two faces of Sean Hannity: Fox host privately advised Trump to go back to Florida while publicly attacking our democracy
| Excerpt: | Unbelievable as it may seem, Hannity briefly offered Trump sensible advice in closing days of his scandal-ridden presidency, according to a treasure trove of emails obtained by the House Selection Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. |
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| Published at: | 11:30 PM on Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Media & Culture, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Ending Terrorism, January 6th Attack on the Capitol, Media Criticism |
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Jaime Herrera Beutler votes to hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt of Congress
| Excerpt: | Just nine Republicans were among the two hundred and twenty-nine representatives who voted to hold Bannon in contempt, and one of them was the Pacific Northwest's own Jaime Herrera Beutler. |
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| Published at: | 2:09 PM on Thursday, October 21st, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Ending Terrorism, January 6th Attack on the Capitol, U.S. House Roll Call Votes |
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Netroots Nation featured panel delves into the lasting effects of the January 6th, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol
| Excerpt: | Sarah Groh, Ted Lieu, Sarah Iddrissu, and Matthew Fuller joined Melissa Ryan for a conversation about the aftermath of the attack that Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress incited and directed against the nation's temple of democracy. |
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| Published at: | 1:55 PM on Thursday, October 7th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Caya Berndt |
| Other Categories: | Events, Party Politics, Policy Topics, World Commmunity |
| Tags: | Ending Terrorism, January 6th Attack on the Capitol, Netroots Nation |
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Select committee on January 6th attack gets to work, hears testimony from police officers
| Excerpt: | Over the course of three and a half hours, four officers told their horrifying stories, describing the violence abuse they suffered at the hands of Trump's terrorist mob. |
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| Published at: | 12:12 PM on Tuesday, July 27th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Policy Topics, World Commmunity |
| Tags: | Ending Terrorism |
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In seeking to block a commission to probe the attack on the U.S. Capitol, top Republicans in Congress remind us their work is never done
| Excerpt: | The leadership of Republicans in Congress, prompted by Donald Trump, spent Wednesday, May 19th, 2021 hanging out to dry those House Republicans who want a September 11th style commission to investigate the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 AM on Thursday, May 20th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Ending Terrorism, U.S. House Roll Call Votes |
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Twenty years after the Nisqually earthquake, seismic upgrades still needed across Cascadia
| Excerpt: | There is no question we've made some progress since the Nisqually quake traumatically reminded us that we live in a region that belongs to the Pacific Ring of Fire. Yet there is also a lot that remains to be done. |
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| Published at: | 10:54 PM on Sunday, February 28th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Disaster Recovery, Emergency Preparedness |
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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 |
| Other Categories: | Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Climate Crisis, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Preparedness, Energy & Power |
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Joe Biden, Jay Inslee denounce Trump-incited terrorist attack on the United States Capitol
| Excerpt: | Read or watch what America's forty-sixth president and Washington's chief executive had to say about the violent insurrection of January 6th, 2021. |
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| Published at: | 10:30 PM on Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Accountable Leaders, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Preparedness |
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U.S. Senate overrides Donald Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act
| Excerpt: | The 2020 incarnation of the appropriations bill that funds the United States military will become law without Donald Trump's signature after more than two-thirds of the U.S. Senate voted for its implementation. |
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| Published at: | 12:45 PM on Friday, January 1st, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Effective Procurement, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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Biden administration reportedly now willing to send U.S. made Abrams tanks to Ukraine