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U.S. Reps. Kim Schrier and Marilyn Strickland on Dec. 1, introduced a bill that would aim to help farmers adopt climate-smart practices by expanding a Washington state program nationwide.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Democratic Doctors Caucus released the following statement after the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to stop recommending the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine.
Today, Congresswoman Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08), the first pediatrician elected to Congress, released the following statement after the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to stop recommending the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine.
PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — Pediatricians in Washington are urging parents to vaccinate their children against hepatitis B.
This comes even after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Panel voted to change its recommendation that all babies get the vaccine after they’re born.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representatives Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08) and Marilyn Strickland (WA-10) introduced the Partnerships for Agricultural Climate Action (PACA) Act of 2025. This bill would scale and replicate Washington state’s bipartisan Sustainable Farms and Fields program, which supports farmers by incentivizing voluntary conservation practices, enhancing producer innovation and viability, and enabling locally led climate action.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08) and Congressman Tony Wied (WI-08) introduced the BLOOD Centers Act, a bipartisan bill to cut onerous administrative requirements placed on blood centers to help ensure that hospitals have a sufficient blood supply to meet patient needs. Congressman Tom Tiffany (WI-07) was also an original cosponsor.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Kim Schrier (WA-08), Chair of the Democratic Doctors Caucus, along with her colleagues of the Democratic Doctors Caucus Ami Bera (CA-06), Herbert Conaway (NJ-03), Maxine Dexter (OR-03), Kelly Morrison (MN-03), Raul Ruiz (CA-25), led 65 other members to demand that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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.