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Wyden said he's working on a bill that would provide $175 billion for elementary and secondary education to provide for digital programming, technology and other materials. He also wants the Legislature to provide $1 billion to provide broadband access to rural communities.

U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici stopped by a fire station in Tigard on Labor Day — her visits to firehouses are part of her holiday rounds — and talked about issues of interest to first responders and others during the coronavirus pandemic.

Bonamici supported the Delivering for America Act, bipartisan legislation that passed in the U.S. House in August to block changes at the Postal Service made this year and provide $25 billion in funding to the agency. The bill would also require that official election mail be treated as first-class mail.

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden and U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici — Democrats of Oregon — stood side by side with U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Washington state Republican, to extol the benefits of the project to the region.