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The House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis held its first-ever hearing on Thursday.
The bi-partisan committee took an unusual approach by calling on young leaders from around the country to testify, instead of hearing from typical experts in the field.
18-year-old Aji Piper is suing the U.S. government over climate change.
Oregon Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici says it was important to hear from young people.
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici will hold six town hall meetings in five northwest Oregon counties, beginning at 11 a.m. April 13 in the Melrose Hall Ice Auditorium on the campus of Linfield College in McMinnville. After stops in Portland and Astoria, Bonamici will next appear locally at 6 p.m. April 18 in the gym at Gaston Junior/Senior High School, then at 6 p.m. April 23 in the auditorium at Hillsboro High School.
Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici will host two town halls in western Washington County this month, with stops in Gaston and Hillsboro.
On Friday, Bonamici announced six town halls in Washington, Yamhill and Clatsop and Columbia counties.
Oregon Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici met at a Bethany fire station March 21 to talk about the continuing dangers of asbestos with an invited panel of Oregon labor leaders. The two are reintroducing a bill that would ban the manufacturing, processing, use, and distribution of asbestos, which is a known human carcinogen with no safe level of exposure.
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici plans a spring series of town hall meetings in the 1st Congressional District of northwest Oregon.
Three are scheduled for Washington and Multnomah counties. All start at 6 p.m.
They are:
• Monday, April 15, Friendly House gym, 1727 N.W. 26th Ave., Portland.
• Thursday, April 18, Gaston Junior/Senior High School gym, 300 Park St., Gaston.
• Tuesday, April 23, Century High School auditorium, 2000 S.E. Century Blvd., Hillsboro.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told a Congressional committee on Tuesday that President Trump's accelerated timeline to put humans back on the Moon is within the space agency's capabilities, and that a revved-up lunar mission will improve the odds of American astronauts reaching Mars by 2033. For that to happen, however, Bridenstine said Congress will have to provide some extra funding—the exact amount of which NASA is still trying to figure out.
Twice in nine months, at least three members of Oregon's congressional delegation have paid a visit to a little-known school in Salem run by the federal government.