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July 17, 2018

“The proposed rule would impede, if not eradicate, the EPA’s ability to protect Americans from significant risks to human health and the environment by limiting the scope of research that the EPA could consider in making decisions."

Issues:Energy and Environment

Bonamici Announces $2.16M in Federal Funding for Community Action Team’s Head Start Program

July 13, 2018

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ST. HELENS, Ore. [07/13/18] –Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) announced that Community Action Team Inc. of Columbia County received $2.16 million in federal funding for its Head Start program. Head Start provides comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families. Community Action Team Inc. of Columbia County has been a Head Start provider for fifty years, since 1968.

Issues:Education

Bonamici Statement on Trump Administration Actions to Undermine Diversity in Education

July 12, 2018

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“As we celebrated Independence Day last week, the Trump Administration quietly continued its efforts to roll back civil rights protections by ending Obama-era guidance to improve diversity on college campuses. This administration’s deliberate attempt to undermine diversity is inconsistent with our American values. The Supreme Court’s decision in Fisher v. University of Texas affirmed the importance of a diverse student body."

Issues:Civil RightsEducation

Bonamici Demands Families be Reunited, Offers to Volunteer at HHS

July 11, 2018

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“If the problem is that these agencies are understaffed, then I’ll come over to the Department of Health and Human Services and volunteer to help."

Issues:Civil Rights

Merkley, Wyden, Bonamici, Brown Statement on Office of Refugee Resettlement Rejecting Tour Request

July 6, 2018

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PORTLAND, OR – Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, along with Rep. Suzanne Bonamici and Gov. Kate Brown, today released the following statement in response to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) refusing to allow the delegation to tour on Thursday evening Morrison Child & Family Services, where ORR placed children who the federal agency had separated from their parents when they crossed the border.

"The Office of Refugee Resettlement turned down our request to meet with the children being held at the facility here in Oregon.

Issues:Civil Rights

Bonamici Statement on Resignation of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt

July 5, 2018

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“Scott Pruitt’s resignation was overdue. During his tenure at the Environmental Protection Agency, he repeatedly put the nation at risk by directing the agency to act counter to its mission of protecting public health and the environment."

Issues:Energy and Environment

Bonamici Leads 79 Members to Demand Agencies Quickly Comply with Injunction, Reunite Families Separated at Border

June 28, 2018

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"I am extremely concerned about the well-being of the thousands of children and infants who have been separated from their parents. Now that a court has ruled that the government must quickly reunite families, we must make sure the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Health and Human Services have a clear plan to quickly return children to their parents."

Issues:Civil Rights

Bonamici Statement on Supreme Court Decision in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31

June 27, 2018

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“Today’s Supreme Court decision in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31 will hurt working families and organized labor, but unions have persevered in the face of adversity before and will again.”

Issues:Jobs and Economy

Bonamici Blasts Trump Administration Withdrawal of National Ocean Policy

June 20, 2018

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"Most people would agree it’s a good idea to have a plan, especially when it comes to managing precious natural resources like our oceans. Not President Trump. His administration just abandoned the National Ocean Policy, leaving our oceans more vulnerable to climate change, overfishing, and changing chemistry."

Issues:Energy and Environment

Oregon Lawmakers Demand Sessions and Nielsen Reverse Zero Tolerance Policy

June 20, 2018

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Sens. Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley and Reps. Suzanne Bonamici, Earl Blumenauer and Kurt Schrader today demanded Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen immediately reverse the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy that’s left asylum seekers dumped in federal prisons.

Issues:Civil Rights