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A compromise on border and immigration enforcement cleared the Senate on Thursday, giving President Donald Trump just a sliver of the money he wanted for his border wall. The White House said Trump would sign the bill and then declare a national emergency to try to shift money to wall-building from elsewhere in the federal budget.

On Feb. 5, 2019, thanks to Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, I got to do something most people will not do in a lifetime: I attended President Trump's State of the Union address.

I met well-known leaders during my trip. I met several congresswomen and men, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Parkland survivor and activist Cameron Kasky.

U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici is one of nine new Democrats on a revived House select committee on climate change.

Her appointment Thursday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the latest in a series of assignments that have resulted in the first subcommittee chairmanship for the Beaverton Democrat in her seven years in the 1st District congressional seat of northwest Oregon.

Twelve years.