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Beaverton, OR – Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici visited six schools in Columbia and Washington Counties today to talk about education policy and funding.
“This was a great opportunity for me to see first-hand how education policy is working in the classroom,” Bonamici said. “There has been a lot of discussion about curriculum, assessment, and education reform, but there is no better way to understand what’s working in a classroom than talking with students, teachers, and administrators.”
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici criticized the bill that the House of Representatives voted on today to address the “doc-fix,” the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula used to reimburse physicians who treat Medicare patients.
The bill would fix the SGR, but it also includes an amendment that delays a critical part of the Affordable Care Act, a law that is already protecting insurers from denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions and providing other critical consumer protections.
Washington, D.C. — Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) and Jim McDermott (D-WA) praised today’s decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to begin a process that may end up blocking a gold and copper mine that could endanger a crucial watershed in Bristol Bay, Alaska.
Washington, D.C. — Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) and Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX) today introduced legislation to better protect the country’s seniors. The bill reauthorizes the Older Americans Act (OAA) – which expired in 2011 – and includes new provisions that offer additional support to seniors.
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.