U.S. Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler’s bipartisan bill to help fight ocean acidification and support a healthy shellfish and fishing industry passed out of the U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee today.
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Today, the bipartisan bill authored by U.S. Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) and Kurt Schrader (D-OR) giving tribal members and government fish managers the authority to lethally remove sea lions that are decimating endangered salmon and steelhead runs was signed into law.
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The bipartisan Endangered Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act, led by Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) and Kurt Schrader (D-OR) in the House, passed out of Congress today and is headed to the President’s desk to become law. The legislation gives tribal members and government fish managers the authority to remove sea lions from specific areas of the Columbia River system and its tributaries where they are posing the most harm to endangered salmon, steelhead and other native fish runs.
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U.S. Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler shared today that the Lugar Center and Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Bipartisan Index ranked her as the 15th most bipartisan member of the U.S. House out of 438 members.
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U.S. House leadership announced that legislation sponsored by Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) and Kurt Schrader (D-OR) to improve the survival of endangered salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River is scheduled for a vote by the full U.S. House today.
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Today, a bill championed by U.S. Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) and Kurt Schrader (D-OR) to improve the survival of endangered salmon and steelhead by selectively removing some sea lions from the Columbia River passed the full U.S. House with a 288-116 vote.
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Today, a bipartisan bill to protect the Columbia and Snake River Dams passed the House by a vote of 225 to 189. This effort, introduced by Eastern Washington Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) alongside Reps. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), Greg Walden (R-OR), and Kurt Schrader (D-OR), will protect the dams by codifying the 2014 Biological Opinion, a collaborative agreement on how to manage the river system to protect fish and support clean, renewable energy.
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U.S. Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler helped obtain funding for mental health resources, wildfire prevention, school safety measures, and efforts to fight the opioid epidemic in the spending package she voted for and the U.S. House approved today.
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Today, Representatives Dave Reichert (R-WA) and Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) took action in opposing the Administration’s proposal for new offshore oil and gas drilling and exploration off Washington’s coastline.
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U.S. Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03) and Derek Kilmer (WA-06) introduced legislation yesterday to extend an exemption for fishing boats and small vessels from EPA incidental discharge regulations so they can continue to operate without facing financial costs and delays.
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