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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.
Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) today released the following statement on the passage of the Bipartisan Budget Act for fiscal year 2014.
Washington, D.C. – The House Natural Resources Committee today unanimously approved two bills Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) introduced earlier this year to address tsunami debris landing on the Pacific Northwest Coast. The Tsunami Debris Cleanup Reimbursement Act, H.R. 1491, would allow the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to refund Oregon, other states, and local and tribal governments for tsunami debris cleanup expenses using $5 million in funding donated by the government of Japan. The Marine Debris Emergency Act, H.R.