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Worries about the funding losses bounced off the walls at separate roundtables attended last week by U.S. Rep.
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) is a longtime champion of public education, arts funding, and student equity. She's been fighting for Title IV-A - that vital program that helps schools fund things like music, art, technology, and school safety - for years. She literally ran for Congress to replace No Child Left Behind.
“You’ve made a starkly abrupt shift from a champion to a destroyer of this important program,” said Democratic Rep. Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon, adding that students in her district were distraught.
Democrats also pressed McMahon to explain why her department has frozen or canceled millions in federal grants and contracts.
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, an Oregon Democrat, for example, reminded McMahon that during her Senate confirmation hearing in February, she promised to disseminate any funds appropriated by Congress regardless of any directives from the president to do otherwise.
Organized by Emily Smith, a Beaverton-based green coffee trader who works with Hacea Coffee Source, the event brought industry concerns directly to Bonamici, a Democrat who represents Oregon’s 1st Congressional district and is the newest member of
A pilot program from the Oregon Coast Visitors’ Association (OCVA), the express will offer two routes to the north coast departing from and returning to the transit center Friday through Sunday, aimed at giving day trippers and weekend visitors a vehicle-free way to access the north coast.