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A bill that would allow schools to serve whole and 2% milk passed unanimously in the U.S. Senate Thursday.
The Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025, which will now be considered by the House of Representatives, revises requirements surrounding milk served by schools participating in USDA’s National School Lunch Program.
WASHINGTON — The New Democrat Coalition, a group of 116 center-left members of the House, has written a letter to the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, urging him to reinstate the fired members of an advisory panel on vaccines.
In addition, the coalition is seeking immediate changes to the procedures followed by the agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to ensure it provides only evidence-based recommendations on public health.
Washington Representatives Kim Schrier and Dan Newhouse introduced a bipartisan act on Thursday called the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act Amendments of 2025.
The amendments aim to fund key water infrastructure projects to mitigate drought and address other pressing challenges in Washington state and across the country.
ISSAQUAH - Congresswoman Kim Schrier (WA-08) and members of the New Democrat Coalition on Wednesday unveiled a sweeping Rural Revitalization Agenda designed to strengthen rural economies, lower costs for families, expand health care access, and address long-standing infrastructure gaps across rural America.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Washington State Representatives Dan Newhouse, Michael Baumgartner and Kim Schrier introduced the Maddie's Infant Recovery and Children's Legislative Emergency (MIRACLE) Act on Thursday to study Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS).
NAS is described as "a condition that affects newborns who receive opioids or addictive substances through the placenta during pregnancy."
House Democrats on Friday introduced legislation to get rid of the WISEeR model for prior authorization in traditional Medicare.
Today, New Dem Members completed the 11th stop on the New Dems on the Road Tour, an initiative to get New Dem Members out of Washington, D.C. to hear from American workers, businesses, industry experts, nongovernmental organizations, and local leaders about how to improve policy in Washington.
CHELAN — After months of operating from a temporary mobile unit, progress is underway toward securing a permanent indoor home for the Chelan Post Office.
Since March, postal employees have continued providing core services while the original building underwent renovation. Both staff and residents have voiced concern about the lack of an indoor facility, especially as winter approaches.
CHELAN — The city of Chelan says it has made progress toward securing a permanent indoor location for the Chelan Post Office after the mail center operated out of a temporary mobile unit for the majority of the year.
The city has utilized the mobile postal unit since March while the original post office building undergoes renovations. The city says collaboration between local, state and federal partners has renewed in recent weeks.
Postmaster Randy Kopel and Mayor Erin McCardle have identified a new, unspecified location downtown, according to a press release.
WENATCHEE — U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier spent Tuesday, Oct. 21, in Wenatchee taking stock of how the shutdown and related federal decisions are hitting the valley—starting with a walkthrough at Washington State University’s Wenatchee Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center (TFREC) and ending at the Chelan-Douglas Community Action Council (CDCAC), where staff described rising demand for food and housing support.