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WASHINGTON, DC - Yesterday, the House passed Congresswoman Kim Schrier’s M.D. (WA-08) Hydropower Licensing Transparency Act. The bipartisan legislation supports Washington’s clean energy sector and affordable energy for ratepayers by enhancing efficiency and transparency for all parties involved in the hydropower dam licensing process. Congresswoman Schrier introduced this bill alongside Congressman Russ Fulcher (ID-01).
While Kristi Noem and Pete Hegseth’s gross incompetence take up a lot of air time, RFK Jr. is actually the cabinet appointment I worry the most about. As the head of Health and Human Services, he oversees the CDC, FDA, and NIH, among other departments. He’s gutting medical research and, as an outspoken anti-vax grifter, firing experienced vaccine researchers. So I reached out to Congresswoman Kim Schrier, an experienced pediatrician and representative of the Washington 8th, to ask her your (and my!) questions about what’s going on. We discussed:
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Representatives Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08) and John Joyce, M.D. (PA-13) introduced the Access to Claims Data Act – a bipartisan bill that will strengthen medical research and improve overall patient care by providing physician researchers with access to Medicare claims data.
This week, Congresswoman Kim Schrier joined community leaders and staff at Food Lifeline–an organization that supplies Washington food banks–to discuss how the recent passage of Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill is endangering access to food by dramatically cutting nutrition assistance programs.
Washington Democratic Congress members are demanding answers after the Trump administration froze billions of dollars of education funding nationwide, including nearly $137 million meant for the Evergreen State’s public schools. U.S. Rep. Marilyn Strickland led her colleagues in writing a letter advocating for the release of those federal funds to Washington by Aug. 1.
MALTBY, Wash. — As President Donald Trump celebrates the passage of his sweeping “Big Beautiful Bill,” some Washington leaders are warning of serious consequences for the state’s most vulnerable residents.
Now signed into law, the president’s budget includes $186 billion in cuts to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) over the next decade — reductions that some argue will hit rural communities especially hard.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congresswoman Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08), released the following statement after voting against the Republicans’ sweeping budget package, which will rip away healthcare from 17 million Americans, force rural hospitals to shut down, crowd emergency departments, eliminate critical food assistance, raise costs for millions of Americans, and add trillions of dollars to our nation’s debt, all to give a giant tax break to billionaires.
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Representative Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08) led 3 members of the Washington delegation on a letter demanding answers from President Trump regarding his recent decision to deny Washington State’s request for a Major Disaster Declaration and assistance following November’s bomb cyclone.
The Trump administration’s new vaccine advisers endorsed this fall’s flu vaccines late last week, but only those that don’t contain the ingredient thimerosal, which has been falsely linked to autism, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The panel is also recommending that infants receive a shot to protect them against the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
WASHINGTON — Actions by a vaccine advisory panel hand-picked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are putting Louisiana U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy’s reputation on Capitol Hill in a precarious position.
For 30 years, Republican Cassidy, once a physician at Baton Rouge’s charity hospital, advocated the safety and efficacy of vaccines to treat disease and save lives. During that same time, Kennedy raised doubts about these inoculations.