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Oregon's Suzanne Bonamici said the investment will pay off and "help us transition to a clean energy economy while creating high quality good paying jobs."
Nevada's Dina Titus said it also helps the environment.
The bill "provides for more efficiencies in highway construction for example, places where you can plug in your electric vehicles," Titus said. "More efficiencies for school construction to make them more heat efficient."
House Democrats on Tuesday will issue an ambitious plan to combat climate change, a move intended to reassure their base of supporters but that's sure to inflame opponents on the right.
The proposal will be released at an event at the U.S. Capitol with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and several other Democratic lawmakers.
In 2007, shortly after Democrats took back the House of Representatives in the 2006 midterm elections, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi created the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, meant to gather expert testimony and develop policy plans to address climate change.
House Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a plan to address climate change that would set a goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, while pushing renewable energy such as wind and solar power and addressing environmental contamination that disproportionately harms low-income and minority communities.
Larsen has "done everything from cleaning the toilets to meeting with (state Sen.) Betsy Johnson and (Congresswoman) Suzanne Bonamici," Jones-Centeno said. "She is on all sides of this thing … That woman has been the force behind the life of the Partners for the PAC."
"She is a force. I wish I had her tenacity and fortitude."
Waisenan retained the right to rename the building if she wanted to. Unknown to Larsen, she chose to rename it the Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts.
The new name debuted Monday.
And in Oregon, all 36 counties were considered "child care deserts" for infants and toddlers before the pandemic, with only one child care slot for every three children who need care, according to Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici's office.
Bonamici recently released a report called "Child Care in Crisis: Solutions to Support Working Families, Children, and Educators," calling for stabilizing and improving the child care system in Oregon and across the nation.
Oregon's Suzanne Bonamici said, "We need the increased transparency and accountability for our law enforcement. We need to ban choke holds and no knock warrants."
The action in the US House came hours after Democrats blocked the Republican version of the police reform bill in the Senate.
The Senate bill's author, Tim Scott of South Carolina, and other GOP members were seething after the Democrats refused to even debate their bill.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon's congressional delegation is demanding to know whether the federal government is using aircraft to spy on Portland protesters.
U.S. senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and U.S. representatives Earl Blumenauer, Suzanne Bonamici and Kurt Schrader sent a letter to the U.S. Marshals service regarding a plane that was spotted over the Portland protests on June 13.
A lack of safe and affordable child care amid the coronavirus pandemic is keeping many working parents from returning to the office as more companies call employees back to their jobs — threatening to extend the economic crisis and erode decades of gains for women in the workplace.
Five members of Oregon's congressional delegation are calling on the U.S. Marshals Service to disclose information about airplanes surveilling protesters in Portland and potentially mining their cellphone data.
U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and Reps. Suzanne Bonamici, Earl Blumenauer and Kurt Schrader signed onto a June 24 letter demanding the Marshals Service disclose information about an airplane that circled above Portland over 30 times on June 13 as thousands of protesters marched on the streets below.