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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a remarkable political repudiation, the Democratic-led U.S. House voted Tuesday night to condemn President Donald Trump's "racist comments" against four congresswomen of color, despite protestations by Trump's Republican congressional allies and his own insistence he hasn't "a racist bone in my body."
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon and Washington lawmakers are condemning President Donald Trump's racist attacks on Democratic congresswomen as the president's ratcheted up his comments at a White House event on Monday, including saying he wasn't concerned by white nationalists embracing his rhetoric.
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici also castigated the president over his comments.
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta resigns amid questions about handling of Epstein case. Embattled Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta has announced he is resigning. Acosta made the announcement himself, accompanying the president out of the White House residence before the president's departure for a trip to Milwaukee.
On Tuesday, Representative Earl Blumenauer introduced a resolution in the House calling for a climate emergency. The legislation itself is symbolic in nature but sets out a series of organizing principles for why climate change is an emergency and why Congress should treat it as such.
Clatsop County's housing crisis reverberates all the way to the halls of Congress.
This spring, U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici addressed a roomful of local leaders to crack the code of the South County's ongoing housing crisis, one which sees a dearth of affordable workforce housing — a problem hindering economic development, leading to a rise in homelessness and higher housing costs for everyone.
I am appalled and horrified at continuing reports about the inhumane treatment of migrants, especially migrant children, at our Southern border. President Trump's immigration policies are harming families and casting a dark and shameful shadow on this nation.