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Guns and safety headlined a town hall Thursday with U.S. Rep Suzanne Bonamici at Astoria High School.
A small crowd turned out for the discussion, the congresswoman's sixth this month during a spring tour of her district in Northwest Oregon. She started out thanking Astoria sophomores Isabel Talley and Kegan Rascoe, who handed her a stack of 78 signed form letters from students and staff calling for more federal funding to improve school safety.
Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici made a surprise visit to the Unidos Bridging Community citizenship class graduation March 12 in Newberg.
Unidos had 11 immigrant graduates who completed the class that helps them prepare for the naturalization exam in Portland. Two of the graduates came from Chile, two from Iran and seven from Mexico and all are now on their way toward becoming citizens.
SEATTLE (AP) — High school students on Saturday led thousands of protesters in Seattle and other Northwest cities demanding tighter gun regulations following recent deadly school shootings.
Students in Seattle held signs that read "Not One More" and chanted "Right now, Right here, we refuse to live in fear." Teachers protested President Donald Trump's proposal to arm some of them to protect students from potential attackers.
Thousands of marchers filled the North Park Blocks of downtown Portland Saturday, March 24, before surging down Broadway and into Pioneer Courthouse Square, to protest violence in schools and a lack of action by lawmakers.
WASHINGTON — The Bipartisan Historically Black Colleges and Universities Caucus and the Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics Caucus hostedtechnology companies and HBCU presidents and leaders on Capitol Hill for the first HBCU STEAM Day of Action.
Congress faces a funding deadline this week as lawmakers scramble to sort out what policy riders will make the fiscal 2018 omnibus appropriations package.
Lawmakers will need to pass the bill no later than Friday, when a temporary funding measure expires. If they fail, many federal agencies would be forced to shut down at the end of the week.
Negotiations that extended through the weekend were expected to lead to an agreement being announced by tonight.