Press Releases

Representatives Suzanne Bonamici, Earl Blumenauer, and Kurt Schrader called on the Judiciary and the Oversight and Government Reform Committees to exercise their oversight authority of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and hold hearings about the agency’s policies and procedures.

Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici and Congressman Drew Ferguson introduced bipartisan legislation to boost apprenticeships and work-based learning programs in an effort to close the skills gap between businesses struggling to find workers with appropriate skills, and workers without meaningful pathways to better paying jobs.

Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici spoke out on behalf of students after the Department of Education further delayed the borrower defense rule, which protects student loan borrowers.

Senator Elizabeth Warren and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici sent a letter to the Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Jay Clayton, urging the agency to open an investigation into potential insider trading of Navient stock.

Representatives Suzanne Bonamici and Earl Blumenauer again pressed the Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to answer questions about ICE procedures and polices after a video emerged of plainclothes ICE officers arresting an individual at what appears to be a private home in Oregon.

Oregon’s Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and Reps. Suzanne Bonamici, Peter DeFazio, Earl Blumenauer and Kurt Schrader joined several of their House and Senate colleagues in sending a forceful letter to the White House urging caution and a careful consideration of the facts before the Trump administration removes the science-based environmental rules that protect Alaska’s Bristol Bay and the jobs of the fishermen who depend on it.

Congresswoman Bonamici followed up on her calls for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to fully investigate the actions of ICE officers toward a U.S. citizen outside of the Washington County, Oregon Courthouse.

Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) released the following statement about the upcoming visit by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to McMinnville High School in McMinnville, Oregon.