Author Archives: aaronw

23 Mar
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This Week In The Senate – Week 11: Operating and Transportation budgets released

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16 Mar
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This Week In The Senate – Week 10: Affordable housing, health care and safe kids

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09 Mar
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This Week In The Senate – Week 9: House of origin cutoff arrives

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07 Mar
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Senate approves plan to modernize state’s recycling system

OLYMPIA — A comprehensive plan to overhaul the state’s outdated recycling system passed the Washington State Senate on Friday. The Recycling Reform Act (SB 5284) would modernize Washington state’s recycling system by creating a producer responsibility program to require manufacturers ...

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28 Feb
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This Week In The Senate – Week 8: Floor action picks up

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23 Feb
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This Week In The Senate – Week 7: Floor action picks up and another key deadline arrives

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16 Feb
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This Week In The Senate – Week 6: Children’s Day, affordable housing and a key date arrives

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07 Feb
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This Week In The Senate – Week 5: Reproductive freedom, education funding and a ban on tobacco products

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07 Feb
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Speaker Jinkins, Majority Leader Pedersen: ‘We stand behind the attorney general’s efforts to defeat the president’s latest unlawful action’

Speaker Laurie Jinkins (D-Tacoma) and Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen (D-Seattle) issued the statement below on Attorney General Nick Brown’s legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order regarding gender-affirming care:  “We want to thank Attorney General Nick Brown for ...

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03 Feb
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Majority Leader Pedersen, Speaker Jinkins: Protecting Transgender Youth in Washington State

Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen and Speaker of the House Laurie Jinkins made the following statement Monday in response to multiple federal executive orders attacking transgender youth: “As parents, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and the elected leaders of the ...

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