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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.
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.
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.
The Supreme Court on Thursday, June 18, rejected the Trump White House's effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants via the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program.
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.
House Democratic leaders on Monday unveiled the text of a broad $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill that includes billions for clean energy and clean water. "Those who don't believe in climate change, tough luck," Transportation Chair Peter DeFazio said when announcing the bill last week. "We're going to deal with it."