Reichert, House Dems: Protect fish, critters
Sixty-one Democratic House members and a lone Republican — Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash. –say the Obama administration is going in the “wrong direction” in managing national forests. The lawmakers, a...
View ArticleFriends of parks – key lawmaker not included
Eight members of Congress from Washington, from both parties, have received a Friend of the National Parks award from the nonpartisan National Parks and Conservation Association. One key lawmaker is...
View Article‘Bully Bully’– Reichert gets T. Roosevelt award
Holding a banquet in Washington, D.C., while a Tea Party was underway on the House floor, the national group Republicans for Environmental Protection last week gave Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., its...
View ArticleReichert: “The leadership sets the schedule”
A bipartisan job fair in Kent was “a super-success”, Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., effused late Tuesday afternoon, after watching more than 2,000 people interview with more than 90 prospective...
View ArticlePayroll tax cut blocked by GOP House
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday blocked a bipartisan Senate compromise to temporarily extend a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits into the new year. One GOP lawmaker...
View ArticleTea Party group cool to Washington lawmakers
Four Washington lawmakers received “F” grades in a legislative scorecard issued Friday by Americans for Prosperity, a group financed by the billionaire Koch brothers that has provided organizational...
View Article“Yeller Dog” puffs Inslee — inaccurately
The popular dailykos.com web site preaches the gospel of American liberalism and instructs believers on what Democratic candidates across the country are ideologically deserving of their dollars. On...
View ArticleU.S. House vote: More drilling and more smog
The U.S. House on Thursday delivered its latest attack on the nation’s environmental laws, voting to weaken the Clean Air Act and remove a requirement that science be the basis for limits on smog. U.S....
View ArticleKarl ‘The Architect’ Rove boosts Dave Reichert
Ex-Bush political guru and SuperPAC co-founder Karl Rove is coming to Bellevue next Wednesday to raise money for Republican U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert, running for his fifth term in a district that now...
View ArticleDarcy Burner flip-flops, goes furiously negative
With signs she is falling behind, 1st District U.S. House candidate Darcy Burner has reversed a campaign pledge and gone furiously negative in an attack mailing directed at fellow Democrat Suzan...
View ArticleHas the House gone to a prolonged Tea Party?
The U.S. House of Representatives had recessed for five weeks, its latest departure from Washington, D.C, duties in a schedule that includes only 109 capital workdays during 2012. The average America,...
View ArticleDemocrats applaud, Reichert draws bead on Obama proposals
Support for proposals in President Obama’s guns-violence package came immediately from the offices of Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, and from Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., a member of House...
View ArticleBipartisan drive to protect King County wild places
A bill to protect two pristine rivers and mountain wild lands, less than an hour’s drive from Seattle in eastern King County, was introduced in the U.S. House and Senate on Thursday by four members of...
View ArticleU.S. ‘green’ scorecard: Republicans flunk
The environment used to be a bipartisan cause, particularly in Washington — witness the state’s million-acre 1984 wilderness bill — but Republicans have bailed here and across the country, according...
View ArticleHouse members: A pre-season demand for dollars
If you were naive enough to believe that politicians’ email money appeals would slacken after the November election, think again. The drive for dollars, and evocations of angst, are underway for...
View ArticleMarching on May Day to be part of America
The boisterous, three-block long May Day crowd that marched on Seattle’s Federal Building — and similar demonstrations Wednesday in six other Washington cities — carried a message: The latest...
View ArticleWhat’s up, Doc? Alpine Lakes bill finally gets hearing
A long-stalled bipartisan proposal to protect a popular recreation river in east King County, and its wild tributary, will finally get a hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives, which has failed...
View ArticleAlpine Lakes: In the hands of a hostile House
The U.S. Senate’s passage of Alpine Lakes legislation last week poses a question that may be answered next month: Is the U.S. House of Representatives so hostile to environmental legislation that it...
View ArticleReichert backs immigration, blocked by fellow Republicans
Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., with a newly redrawn district that spans the “Cascade Curtain,” has become the state’s first Republican member of Congress to back immigration reform and a “path to...
View ArticleThe Shutdown squad: Congress’ dumbest members
As he presides over a splintered, infighting Republican caucus that could be called “Mogadishu on the Potomac,” House Speaker John Boehner ought to recall a rare, wise observation he made a couple...
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