Rep. Bonamici: Congress has lots of unfinished business

As she starts her fifth full term from northwest Oregon's 1st District, U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici says Congress has a lot of unfinished business. She says that business starts with a follow-up coronavirus aid plan to the $2.2 trillion CARES Act last spring — the House's Democratic majority has passed two plans, but nothing has advanced in the Republican-controlled Senate — and does not end there. During a Nov. 25 virtual discussion that the Oregon Food Bank sponsored about hunger, Bonamici said, one Portland Community College student told her "she was one flat tire away from being hungry." Another said she was also on the verge of dropping out because of the need to care for siblings.