Politics

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

State Sen. Don Benton, R-Vancouver, and state Rep. Paul Harris, R-Vancouver, have been appointed to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Washington Grassroots Leadership Team. "With the help of this team and […]

The group that marched recently from Vancouver to Olympia in support of same-sex marriage was greeted last week by the governor, as well as some Southwest Washington lawmakers. Lawmakers came out […]

If Star Trek star George Takei mentions you on his Facebook page, you’re bound to get some attention. Take the speech on marriage equality given by state Rep. Maureen Walsh from […]