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At the meeting, Bonamici fielded questions from residents concerned about various policies of President Donald Trump’s administration and said that she and fellow democrats would fight those policies and work to turn the electoral tide in the 2026 midterm elections.
ICE arrests and big tech layoffs were just two of the topics discussed at Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici’s town hall in Hillsboro on Tuesday.
Hundreds of people packed into Raymond Arthur Brown Middle School to ask Bonamici questions about numerous topics and hoping to make sense of what is going on at the federal level.
The letter also notes the EEOC moved to dismiss six cases the agency had previously pursued against employers accused of gender identity discrimination, including EEOC v Boxwood Hotels, a lawsuit in which the employer is alleged to have fired a transgender employee after the employee’s manager repeatedly misgendered the employee and referred to them as “it”.
Jewish Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., said she can no longer pretend the antisemitism crusade is a "good faith" effort by her Republican colleagues on the committee."Instead of engaging with this topic genuinely and constructively, we have another performative hearing," Bonamici said. "It's another chapter in the majority's battle against higher education."
“These are not normal times,” U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici said during the event. “I’ve heard about the fear and anxiety that’s in our communities right now.”
She spoke about recently meeting Dreamers — undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children — at Portland Community College and their aspirations to live the American Dream.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (CT) reintroduced the landmark, bicameral bill,
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici sat down for a roundtable discussion with community leaders on Wednesday, Sept. 4, at Centro de Prosperidad in Hillsboro, focusing on the challenges facing asylum seekers and exploring ways the federal government can step up.
Oregon’s 1st Congressional District representative witnessed the turmoil on the front lines in 2020 when she visited Matamoros, Mexico, with a congressional delegation to learn about the strife and struggle families experience as they attempt to restart their lives.