Imagine a federal government agency supported by business, labor, bankers and manufacturers that doesn’t cost taxpayers a dime and creates thousands of made-in-America jobs, many of them right here in the Pacific Northwest. It sounds like something the Republican Party would dream up.
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Jul 22, 2014
In The News
Remodel of one more JBLM school gets momentum in Congress
Two U.S. lawmakers from Washington state are pushing bills that would pay for the remodeling of the last of six outdated elementary schools at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
The Clover Park School District would get $40 million to renovate Evergreen Elementary School if either of the bills sponsored by Democrats Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Denny Heck make it through Congress.
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Jun 24, 2014
In The News
House Democrats push for Ex-Im Bank
House Democrats will launch a campaign Tuesday to re-authorize the Export-Import Bank even as incoming Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy is discounting the measure’s chance of success. Authorization for the bank, which provides federal loans intended to boost U.S. exports, expires at the end of September.
Jun 16, 2014
In The News
Fife company has big stake in D.C. debate over Ex-Im Bank
WASHINGTON — At roughly $25 a pop, there’s good money to be made in supplying the world with plastic traffic poles.
Pexco, a small manufacturing company with 150 employees in Fife, Wash., already ships the poles to 28 countries. If all goes as planned, thousands more will soon be headed to Turkey each year.
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Jun 13, 2014
In The News
State congressional delegation decries Victoria sewage
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Members of Washington state's congressional delegation on Friday called on British Columbia Premier Christy Clark to expedite a plan to end the dumping of raw sewage into the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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Jun 5, 2014
In The News
Time to speak your mind about improving I-5 traffic
When it flows freely, Interstate 5 is a marvel of movement for commercial and personal transportation as it bisects Thurston County. The federal freeway is the West Coast’s major conduit between California, Oregon and Washington, and a vital connection for us between Lewis and Pierce counties.
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May 28, 2014
In The News
Export-Import Bank more than just the ‘Bank of Boeing’
In this Washington, the idea that a federal agency helped Boeing sell 106 airliners last year might have us doing handstands, especially when we learn that it didn’t cost taxpayers a dime.
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May 27, 2014
In The News
Senate should follow House on military-base roads bill
A new approach to funding transportation projects near military bases has some traction in a military appropriation bill that recently sailed through the House of Representatives on a 416-1 vote.
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May 23, 2014
In The News
Obama signs bill honoring 'ace' pilots; Olympia man included
Retired Olympia Navy pilot Clarence “Spike” Borley is among those to be honored by legislation signed Friday by President Obama in a ceremony at the White House. The American Fighter Aces Congressional Gold Act, or H.R. 685, was sponsored by U.S.
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May 23, 2014
In The News
Obama honors World War II pilots
President Obama signed a pair of bills Friday conferring the Congressional Gold Medal on two legendary groups of World War II pilots.
The honorees are members of the "Doolittle Raiders," pilots who engineered a famous bombing raid on Tokyo, and the elite group known as the American Fighter Aces.
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