Today, the U.S. House of Representatives approved Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler’s legislative effort to prevent aquatic invasive species from infiltrating the Columbia River ecosystem.
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Yesterday, Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler urged the federal housing and development department via letter to improve its plans to evaluate development grant eligibility for towns like Toledo, Pe Ell and Vader that have erroneously been qualified as “too affluent.”
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Today, Jaime Herrera Beutler voted in favor of the Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessary and Burdensome Act, or SCRUB Act, that would scrub unnecessary and outdated federal regulations that put measurable economic burdens on Southwest Washington families and businesses.
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Today, U.S. House of Representatives passed the House- Senate negotiated agreement on a tax reform bill that includes the permanent extension of the state and local sales tax deduction – critical tax relief that Jaime has championed since coming to Congress. Jaime voted with a bipartisan majority of the U.S. House to pass the bill with a vote of 318 - 109.
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Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler released the following statement regarding her vote against a budget measure that raises the debt ceiling without a commitment to reducing the federal deficit.
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Today, Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) and Don Young (R-AK) introduced bipartisan legislation to change the market name of “Alaska pollock” to “pollock.”
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Today, Jaime Herrera Beutler’s bill to permanently extend a 17-year fishery management agreement that has been vital to Washington state’s Dungeness crab fishery passed the U.S. House of Representatives with unanimous support.
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Today, Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler announced that she and Congressman Kurt Schrader (D-OR) had introduced the Timely Permitting Accessibility Act to allow private entities to pay for additional U.S. Army Corps of Engineers staff to help expedite the permitting process for important economic development projects.
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Last evening, Jaime Herrera Beutler voted in favor of the Regulations from the Executive In Need of Scrutiny Act, also known as the REINS Act, that would rein in unchecked federal agency rulemaking that has a significant economic impact.
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