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July 6, 2023
Learning to code can help students find new and creative ways to solve problems.
Issues:Education

June 30, 2023

The Fairfield Apartments is a preservation project of Home Forward. The project cost about $35.8 million, according to city figures, with the Portland Housing Bureau kicking in $6.5 million. Thanks to a push from Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, as well as Oregon Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici, the project received $2 million in federal housing funds. 


June 30, 2023
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Discrimination should never be allowed against any person because of who they are or who they love.
Issues:Civil Rights

June 30, 2023
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The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan is deeply disappointing for the more than 490,000 Oregonians who would have received forgiveness, most of whom were low-income students.
Issues:Education

June 29, 2023

Two Oregon lawmakers announced a bill on Wednesday that that would encourage affordable housing facilities to have on-site childcare.

Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici and Senator Ron Wyden toured a facility in southwest Portland called Neighborhood House that models what this could look like.


June 29, 2023
My dedicated staff are working hard to assist as many people seeking passports as possible, but unusually long delays make it difficult to help Oregonians get where they need to go in time.

June 29, 2023
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Today’s decision striking down affirmative action is a loss for our increasingly diverse country and a devastating blow to fairness and equity in higher education.
Issues:Education

June 22, 2023
We write today to express our fervent hope that Providence and the Oregon Nurses Association will come back together in good faith and with all due haste to negotiate new employment contracts for the 1800 nurses and clinical staff at Providence Portland Medical Center, Providence Seaside Hospital, and Providence Home Health and Hospice.

June 22, 2023
Oregon families in urban and rural areas have told me that child care costs more than their housing. This is unacceptable.