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The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend, Act, HR 763, will drive down emissions 36% to 38% within 10 years while protecting the poor and middle class from increased costs by returning revenue to all Americans via a monthly dividend.
Congressional Reps. Earl Blumenauer, Suzanne Bonamici and Kurt Schrader have the power to make climate a bridge issue by supporting HR 763. While I work to reduce my carbon footprint, I know their leadership would lessen my unease about toxic partisan politics and our uncertain future.
WASHINGTON, DC [2/6/20] – Today the House passed major legislation to strengthen workers' rights. Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Chair of the Education and Labor Committee's Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee, co-sponsored the legislation and spoke in favor of it on the House floor.
The Senate's acquittal of President Trump on two articles of impeachment officially brought the trial to an end but hundreds of people in Portland still gathered in a public display of opposition.
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici said, "Acquitting Trump without a fair trial sets a dangerous precedent for current and future Presidents to exploit. History will judge the Senate for failing to uphold its Constitutional duty to provide checks and balances".
Oregon Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici criticized the Senate's acquittal of President Trump Wednesday saying too many members of the body "failed to put country before party."
"Acquitting Trump without a fair trial sets a dangerous precedent for current and future Presidents to exploit," she said. "History will judge the Senate for failing to uphold its Constitutional duty to provide checks and balances."
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici has pledged her support for immigrants and asylum seekers, who have been political targets of Donald Trump during the three years of his presidency.
Bonamici made her comments Friday, Jan. 31, at a meeting with immigrant advocates and public officials at Virginia Garcia's Beaverton Wellness Clinic. Two weeks earlier, the Oregon Democrat was part of a congressional delegation that visited Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico, for a firsthand look at Trump's policy of requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are being considered.
Serena Cruz, executive director of the Virginia Garcia Memorial Foundation, will be the guest of U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici at the State of the Union address on Tuesday.
"I hope that her being there will help lift up the work you are doing here at Virginia Garcia because it is so important," Bonamici said Friday at a stop at the Beaverton Wellness Center. "I also want to convey the message that health care, and access to it, is a right.
Today the President released a Middle East "peace plan" that was soon followed by an announcement that Israel plans to move forward unilaterally with annexing settlements in the West Bank. This is not a viable path to a two-state solution, which must be negotiated between Israelis and Palestinians. Cementing the status quo would further deteriorate any trust among the two parties and diminish the possibility of achieving a peaceful resolution that respects the rights of Palestinians and ensures the long-term security of a democratic Israel.
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, Oregon's 1st congressional district representative, which includes Columbia County, travels to Texas, Mexico to observe effect of Trump administration policies.