E-Newsletters

Dear neighbors, When I hear from constituents, it’s most often about the issues that affect people’s daily lives—the cost of living, prescription drugs, safety on the job, and, in the long run, having the opportunity to build better lives for themselves and their children. Those are the issues I’m focused on in ...

Dear neighbors, Sometimes during short legislative sessions, lawmakers will limit their goals to passing a couple of uncontroversial bills and getting finished on time. That’s not what I’m doing this year. There is too much that needs to be done. I have proposed a full slate of bills on some of the ...

Dear Neighbors, Happy Martin Luther King Day! Today, we passed a resolution to honor his legacy of fighting for racial equity and economic justice. Over the first week of the short, 60-day legislative session, we have gotten a fast start by considering several bills that continue in the tradition Dr. King exemplified ...

Dear neighbors, It’s a pleasure to invite you to an upcoming town hall, focused on Washington State’s aviation system. This online event will take place at 6 pm on Wednesday, October 13. You can register for the event and live stream it here. Congressman Adam Smith, Representative Tina Orwall, and I will ...

Dear neighbors, As the Puget Sound grows, Sea-Tac Airport is getting busier and busier. It has the smallest physical footprint of any major airport in the country. Those of us who live around the airport know that its capacity is nearly maxed out, and studies confirm that it will be out ...

Dear neighbors, Now that we have finished the 2021 legislative session, my seatmates and I want to hear from you, as well as update you on our work on your behalf. Please join all three lawmakers from the 33rd District—Rep. Tina Orwall, Rep. Mia Gregerson and me—for a town hall meeting at ...

Dear neighbors, We’re just past halfway through the 2021 legislative session, and my seatmates and I want to hear from you, as well as update you on our work on your behalf. Please join all three lawmakers from the 33rd District—Rep. Tina Orwall, Rep. Mia Gregerson and me—for a town hall meeting ...

Dear neighbors, Halfway through the legislative session, the Senate has made great progress to address the most pressing issues affecting us here in Washington—from pandemic recovery to health care to police accountability to fair pay for a hard week’s work. We have until April 25 to finish the work we have ...

Dear neighbors, At the Legislature, we have been working hard to put pandemic relief on a fast track. This week, we passed a historic $2.2 billion package that will expand testing and vaccine distribution, provide support to schools, make grants available for small business, and help thousands meet basic needs with ...

Dear neighbors, On Monday, Feb. 1, King County will open two community vaccination sites, one at the ShoWare Center in Kent and the other at the General Services Administration complex in Auburn. They will be operating six days a week, providing 500 shots per day. Registration for these sites will be open ...