Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler applauded the U.S. Senate for passing her bipartisan bill to permanently extend a decades-old fishery management agreement that has been vital to Washington state’s Dungeness crab fishery. The bill now heads to the president’s desk for signature to become law.
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Today, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler’s bipartisan bill to improve the survival of endangered salmon, steelhead and other native fish species in the Columbia River system just got one step closer to becoming law. The bill, Endangered Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act, advanced through the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee. The next step will be a vote on the U.S. House floor.
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Today, Representatives Derek Kilmer (WA-06) and Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03) successfully added $20 million for fishery disasters in Washington state to a key House Appropriations Bill. The U.S. Department of Commerce in January issued multiple fishery disaster declarations in Washington state.
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Today, Pacific Northwest Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03), Dan Newhouse (WA-04), Kurt Schrader (OR-05), and Greg Walden (OR-02) introduced bipartisan legislation to approve the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) Biological Opinion (BiOp) until 2022. This legislation will work to support the FCRPS and the benefit it brings to our region through the clean, renewable, and affordable energy it provides while allowing salmon to recover at record rates.
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Today, Members of Congress from Oregon, Washington, and Idaho sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke requesting assistance to combat the spread of an invasive species of mussels that threatens the Columbia River system, fisheries, and hydropower infrastructure.
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Representatives Derek Kilmer (WA-06) and Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03) reintroduced bipartisan legislation to help fight ocean acidification.
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