In the News
“My D.C. team and I were able to go to the giant room at the Library of Congress where they have the surplus books and pick out several books for the students here and bring them back to Oregon,” Bonamici added.
What was once old is new again in downtown Portland. On Wednesday afternoon, a grand opening celebration was held at the Fairfield Apartments, Portland’s newest affordable housing project.
United States Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici visited Tillamook County on October 9, making stops at Neah Kah Nie Middle and High School, Tillamook Bay Community College and Nestucca Middle School.
Rep. Bonamici says these ecosystems have the potential to address the climate crisis, stating "Unfortunately, the health of these blue carbon ecosystems is under threat from ocean acidification and sea level rise driven by global warming.
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.
“Elizabeth Furse dedicated her life to service, enriching the lives of people in Northwest Oregon by advocating for equal rights, tribal sovereignty, peace and more,” Bonamici said in a release.
Bonamici, who helped direct $3 million in federal Community Project funds toward the initiative, emphasized the program’s role in enhancing water access for residents across county.“There are diverse communities — urban, suburban, rural —and each faces unique infrastructure challenges, particularly when it comes to covering project costs,” Bonamici said.
“The homeless have civil rights as well, and to just be incarcerated for homelessness just seems so inhumane and wrong to me,” Bonamici said. “So let's work together and find options that actually are going to help people, rather than make it harder for them to overcome the challenges that they're facing.”
As the CHIPS and Science Act marks its second anniversary this month, Oregon is a proven winner when it comes to securing federal funding to ensure that our home state remains at the heart of the semiconductor revolution.
Project Turnkey has the power to help people overcome a wide variety of challenges, and it shouldn’t be limited to a lucky few. Building on the success we’ve seen in Oregon, I introduced the Project Turnkey Act to create a federal Project Turnkey program at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.