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Two months after a congressional committee held an emotional, sometimes-combative hearing on Chemawa Indian School, the Oregon representatives leading improvement efforts see few signs of progress.
"The wheels of justice move slowly, but I am committed to staying the course and doing what is right for these Native American students," said U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Oregon, in a statement Tuesday.
Legislators are fighting back against the nation's opioid crisis by tackling problems with prescription pills going unused. Often times, the leftovers end up in the wrong hands.
BEAVERTON, OR – Today Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) and state and county leaders gathered at Virginia Garcia Wellness Center for a progress report on their work to address the opioid crisis.
Teachers and parents of children who died in the care of Chemawa Indian School, or shortly after being removed from the facility, are demanding that Congress hold the Salem boarding school accountable.
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Traesa Keith is the mother of a student who died at the Chemawa Indian School, a federally operated Native American boarding school.
She said her daughter had one of the biggest hearts. She also said valuable time was lost because the school assumed her daughter's medical emergency was a student fight.
Oregon representatives Kurt Schrader and Suzanne Bonamici even went to the school.
"Total crisis" was the phrase Sonya Moody-Jurado used in her Capitol Hill testimony to describe Chemawa Indian School, an off-reservation boarding school managed by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education (BIE).
Moody-Jurado should know the school's problems; she chaired the school board from 2015 to 2018.
Three Democratic members of Congress, two from Oregon and one from Washington, made the case for Medicare for All on Saturday in Portland.
A standard-bearer in the Medicare for All movement found a receptive audience during a pit stop in Portland — though crucial questions about the ambitious proposal remain unanswered, including how to pay for it.
In a report that elicited calls for congressional action, the New York TimesrevealedWednesday that "senior officials at the Environmental Protection Agency disregarded the advice of their own scientists and lawyers in April when the agency issued a rule that restricted but did not ban asbestos."