E-Newsletters

Dear friends and neighbors, Perhaps the biggest issue of the 2024 session is our state’s efforts to combat climate change, which became incredibly controversial this past summer when our Climate Commitment Act contributed to driving up Washington’s gas prices to the most expensive in the nation. Putting a price on carbon pollution ...

Dear friends and neighbors, It may only be the second week of the legislative session, but with a mere 60 days to complete our work, we’re already well into the process. Later in the session we’ll grapple with some of the bigger issues – gas prices and the Climate Commitment Act, ...

Dear friends and neighbors, The 2024 session has begun and I’m excited to be back! This is my 12^th and final year in the Senate, and every time I come down here, I’m honored by the trust you’ve placed in me to be your voice in the Legislature. I will always ...

Dear friends and neighbors, When we adjourned the legislative session last month, we had a lot to be proud of, with one glaring exception – our failure to act on Washington’s drug addiction crisis. It was incredibly frustrating to me that this occurred, since we already had a good, bipartisan proposal in ...

Dear friends and neighbors, The 2023 session adjourned last weekend, and it was one of the most productive sessions we’ve had in years. With one major exception, we moved forward in moderate, responsible ways that stayed true to our Washington values. So much happened that I could write an email that’s ...

Dear friends and neighbors, With just a few weeks left in the legislative session, I wanted to tell you about two bills we just passed and the story of how these ideas came to us here in the Legislature. Folks might not realize that a lot of the policies that the ...

Dear friends and neighbors, Last week I gave you an update about the capital budget, which funds our state’s construction projects and physical infrastructure, where I’m the lead budget writer. If you missed that email, I don’t blame you – I get that same feeling of endless emails from politicians filling ...