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Monthly Archives: March 2012

Uelmen's campaign kickoff draws 250 people

About 250 people showed up earlier this week to attend Elizabeth Uelmen’s campaign kickoff event. She’s challenging first-term U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Camas, this election season. Uelmen, a Democrat, hosted the kickoff on Tuesday evening at the Fort Vancouver

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How our state's members of Congress voted last week

Here’s how Washington state members of the U.S. Senate voted on major issues in the week ending March 16. The U.S. House of Representatives was in recess. (A little background about why I’m re-posting this can be found here.) SURFACE-TRANSPORTATION

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Governor’s ultimatum slows bill signing

News about bill being signed into law has been slow-going this session, especially since the governor offered an ultimatum to state lawmakers, who have yet to reach an agreement on the budget. Last week Gov. Chris Gregoire told legislators she

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Herrera Beutler makes statement with hydroelectricity bill

U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Camas, passed a nonbinding resolution on Thursday to recognize hydroelectric power as a renewable energy source. Her bill does not change clean energy rules for Southwest Washington, but it does touch on a debate over

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How our state's members of Congress voted last week

Here at The Columbian, we publish information every Sunday inside the C Section about how members of Congress from our state have voted. I’ve recently learned that this information is not available on The Columbian’s website. I believe the plan

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Herrera Beutler appears moderate in National Journal’s political philosophy ranking

When compared to other Republicans in Congress, U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Camas, appears to vote in a more moderate fashion. According to the nonpartisan National Journal magazine, based in Washington, D.C., Herrera Beutler ranks 222 on the conservative scale

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Rep. Harris responds to Democrats’ complaints about Senate takeover

The Senate shake-up on Friday, in which the minority Republicans got three conservative Democrats to join them in approving the Republicans’ budget, has stirred up a lot of emotions in Olympia. In a story I wrote for Sunday, I quoted

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