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Beaverton, Ore.— Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici emphasized the importance of Meals on Wheels while packing and delivering meals today in Washington County. Bonamici assisted volunteers and hand-delivered meals to seniors in Beaverton.

Last year, Meals on Wheels served more than 250,000 meals to more than 4,000 seniors in Washington County. About 88 percent of those recipients are homebound and ten percent live at or below the poverty level.

Beaverton, Ore.— Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) has announced that her office is participating in the first annual Congressional Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Academic Competition, the “House App Contest.”

On January 29, 2014, I voted to support the Conference Report on H.R. 2642, the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act, also known as the Farm Bill. This vote presented a very difficult choice for me. On the one hand, the bill contains numerous provisions that benefit our agriculture communities; on the other, it makes an ill-advised change in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that I would have strongly opposed had it been presented in a separate bill.

WASHINGTON, DC –Today, Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) and Suzanne Bonamici (D- Ore.), as well as eight other members of Congress, sent a letter urging Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy to use the authority of the EPA to protect Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble Mine.

Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) will attend the President’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday evening accompanied by her guest Dr. Joe Robertson, President of Oregon Health & Science University. Bonamici invited Dr. Robertson to highlight the ongoing need for additional support for education and research.

Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) today released the following statement on passage of a bipartisan funding bill for 2014.

Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) today released the following statement on the need for Congress to extend emergency unemployment compensation.

About 1.3 million Americans, including nearly 18,000 Oregonians, lost their unemployment assistance at the end of December because Congress has not extended the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program. Additionally, if the program is not extended about 5 million more Americans will not get benefits in 2014.

WASHINGTON – Today, Representatives Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Peter DeFazio (OR-04), and Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) released a new county-by-county breakdown of the number of people in Oregon who would immediately lose all of their unemployment insurance on Dec. 28 if Congress fails to extend the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program. Republicans last week blocked an effort by House Democrats to extend the program into 2014.