E-Newsletters

Dear friends and neighbors, A big part of my job is making sure that our district receives money for important local projects. Our state capital budget funds infrastructure and maintenance – the physical projects that we can all see, touch, and feel. It’s good government at work to make sure that ...

Dear friends and neighbors, The 2026 legislative session has come to a close! In just 60 days, we’ve managed to pass major legislation on civil rights and justice, health care, housing, and other important issues – along with the Millionaires Tax, a historic tax reform bill to fix our upside-down tax ...

Dear friends and neighbors, There’s just one week left in the legislative session! We have completed our work on many important issues, but we still have a lot left to do. Legislators are working this weekend to negotiate the final details of our state’s operating, transportation, and capital budgets and putting ...

Dear friends and neighbors, With just two weeks left in the legislative session, we have both the House and Senate budget proposals before us, and we are moving toward agreement on a final plan to supplement the underlying biennial budget we passed last year. As always, these budgets include some tough ...

Dear friends and neighbors, I’m thrilled to report the Senate passed the Millionaires Tax off of the Senate floor on a 27-22 vote! This is an exciting move forward for funding schools, health care, and essential services, paid for by asking households making more than $1 million per year to ...

Dear friends and neighbors, This has been a busy week in the Senate, with full days of floor action on bills. In the next two weeks, we’ll also see major progress on the budget proposals made by the House and the Senate – the key step before the two chambers negotiate ...

Dear friends and neighbors, I’m glad to let you know that one of the most important bills of the session has been introduced – the Millionaires Tax proposal, to raise funding for schools, health care, and services by taxing the few households in our state making more than $1 million in ...

Dear friends and neighbors, We’re now nearly a third of the way through the legislative session. We’ve already passed legislation through the Senate on some of the biggest and most important issues before us. ICE face masks We are all horrified by the violence and ...

Dear friends and neighbors, I hope you had a chance to watch our online town hall with Reps. Beth Doglio and Lisa Parshley last Monday night. If you missed it, it’s on YouTube here. We answered pre-submitted and live questions on every topic from banning plastic bags, to data centers ...

Dear friends and neighbors, This was the first week of the legislative session, with eight more to go. The week began with all the usual start-of-session steps, like hearing the state of the state address from Gov. Bob Ferguson. You can read about it here. Despite these challenging times, it ...