Dear friends and neighbors, I hope you’ll join me for a legislative town hall next Monday night. We’re just a month away from the start of the 2026 legislative session, and this is an important time to share your input ...
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Dear friends and neighbors, The days are getting shorter and next year’s legislative session gets closer every day. We’re already hard at work hearing about the implementation of policies we passed, learning about the biggest needs and issues facing our ...
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Dear friends and neighbors, The Legislature has adjourned for the 2025 legislative session! For 105 days, we took on the biggest issues facing our state, including the most challenging budget situation since the Great Recession. People often say budgets are ...
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House and Senate Democratic budget leaders released an updated legislative package to raise new progressive revenue and fund K-12 education and essential state services this week. It would raise nearly $12 billion over four years. “We’ve updated our proposal to ...
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Dear friends and neighbors, With just three weeks left in the legislative session, we’re hard at work in negotiations over the state budget and the most important bills before us. I’m honored to be one of the Senate’s budget leaders, ...
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OLYMPIA — Ahead of next week’s full operating budget proposal, Senate Democratic budget leaders released their new revenue proposal for the 2025-27 operating budget. “We’ve spent months discussing our budget, learned about how damaging an all-cuts budget might be, and ...
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OLYMPIA — Senate Democratic budget leaders plan to release their new revenue proposal for the 2025-27 operating budget on Thursday, March 20. A press release with information on the proposal’s key elements will be sent at approximately 9 a.m., and ...
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Legislation to protect children’s mental and behavioral health from addictive social media algorithms and harmful online content passed the Senate on a 36-12 vote Wednesday. In 2024, the U.S. Surgeon General released a report that stated spending 3 hours online ...
Read MoreLegislation to make clergy members mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect passed the Washington State Senate Friday on a 28-20 vote. Currently, Washington is one of just five states in the country that does not list clergy as mandatory reporters of ...
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Dear friends and neighbors, The legislative session is underway, and I want to update you on some of the biggest issues we’re working on this year and some of my bills. It’s so important that you be involved in our ...
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