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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 the Congressional Coffee Caucus.
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.
“I’m thrilled that there’s going to be a new and convenient transit option to get to the north coast without a car,” Bonamici said at the ceremony.
UO alumnus Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Beaverton, said she is heartened to see the university continuing to invest in education despite the hostile rhetoric coming from the White House.
“It’s important and critical that we continue to open the doors of opportunity to higher education, especially at this moment. Higher education is under attack,” Bonamici said at Thursday’s event. “What better investment can we make than in education?”
Rep. Bonamici, a Democrat, described news of the closure as “outrageous” in a video taken outside the PIVOT Job Corps center in Portland. She said she represents both PIVOT and the Tongue Point Job Corps and is concerned for their futures. “These programs are an incredible asset to our community because they’re so important for students who don’t fit into a traditional high school,” Bonamici said. “Job Corps in Astoria is a residential program — those students may not have homes to go back to.
“What has happened just in the past few months with this administration and with tariffs has been chaotic,” Rep. Bonamici told the coffee industry leaders.
She said she hopes the U.S. Court of Appeals will side with the International Trade Court in ruling the tariffs illegal, saying that only Congress can enact such widespread import taxes. The Appeals court has not indicated when it may rule, but has asked each party to respond by June 9.
An array of Portland-area people who roast coffee or sell coffee met with U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Beaverton, on Thursday, May 29, to talk about the impact of President Donald Trump’s 10% tariff on coffee beans and coffee-related supplies.
U.S. Reps. Suzanne Bonamici and Maxine Dexter joined Planned Parenthood leaders on Tuesday to decry the Republican majority’s budget reconciliation bill as a potentially devastating blow to the organization and to thousands of Oregon patients.“I’m disgusted by the bill that passed,” Bonamici, a Beaverton Democrat, said at a news conference at Planned Parenthood’s Northeast Portland Health Center.
The shock had worn off, perhaps, but the fury had not.
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) began her remarks sharply.“I’m here to say that Donald Trump and the unelected billionaire Elon Musk do not understand the value of arts and culture…and, in fact, are trying to censor opinions, and they do not understand the separation of powers our Founding Fathers embedded in the Constitution,” Bonamici said from the lectern. “We are here to say that we will not stand by as they attack Oregon’s arts community and culture community.”