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WASHINGTON, DC – Today Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (OR-1) voted for the Surface Transportation Bill and issued the following statement:
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (OR-1) led a bipartisan group of 28 Pacific Coast Members of Congress today asking the U.S. Coast Guard to clarify its role in managing debris from the tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011. The Members—representing districts in Oregon, Washington, California, Alaska, Hawaii, and U.S. territories in the Pacific—asked Admiral Robert J. Papp to clarify the Coast Guard’s procedure for notifying local entities of detected incoming debris and its criteria for possible destruction of debris.
This morning the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Upon hearing the decision, Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (OR-1) made the following statement:
Portland, Ore.—Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (OR-1) called on local, state, and federal partners and other stakeholders to coordinate and streamline efforts to clean debris from the 2011 Japan tsunami from Oregon’s beaches and coastal waters. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned that significant accumulations of debris may wash up on U.S. shorelines over the next months and years.