Education
Bonamici introduced an amendment which would prohibit institutions of higher education from requiring athletes to provide reproductive and sexual health information, including information about an athlete’s menstrual cycle.
“It is never okay to ask for unnecessary menstrual and reproductive information from women and girls as a basis for determining eligibility for sports,” she said.
Foxx said she disagreed with the amendment, because “this amendment strips out the underlying bill.”
Bonamici was honored with the National Parent Teacher Association’s 2023 Congressional Voice for Children Award, alongside Sen. Mitt Romney, for their efforts in Congress to advance topics and bills related to school-aged children.
After redistricting in 2020, Bonamici’s district now encompasses Tillamook County and she is excited to be representing a larger portion of the Oregon coast.
“I’m honored to have Tillamook County joining the first congressional district,” Bonamici said in a recent interview with the Herald.
“We’re going to see a huge decline I think at our colleges, especially the community colleges, for spring term,” Bode said. “(Students) are terrified, absolutely terrified and I don’t blame them.”
Bode was among a dozen student and staff representatives from Oregon’s colleges and universities who met at Portland State University on Friday to talk with U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., about student hunger and barriers students face to accessing help and benefits.
U.S. Representative Suzanne Bonamici hosted a Friday roundtable at Portland State University to discuss food insecurity on Portland area campuses with students, faculty and staff.
Bonamici is set to introduce the “Opportunity To Address College Hunger Act” to Congress, which is meant to help students overcome barriers in accessing SNAP benefits.
Higher education administrators and students told U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici harrowing firsthand accounts about how hunger is gripping Oregon's college campuses and preventing degrees during a roundtable discussion at Portland State University on Friday, Jan. 13.