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WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08) announced today that the final four of her requested Community Project Funding (CPF) priorities have been included in the House Labor & Health and Transportation & Housing initial funding bills. In June, Rep. Schrier announced that six of her requested CPF priorities were included in the Interior and Agriculture initial funding bills. With today's news, Rep.
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced the recipients of this year's Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) grants. This is an incredibly competitive program, and not only did Wenatchee win, but it won big – $92.4 million. That's the largest INFRA grant awarded anywhere in the country this year. Maybe it's because the city has applied for this funding for four years now, but this announcement felt especially momentous.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Representative Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08) voted to pass the INVEST in America Act, a sweeping infrastructure bill that includes $19 million for transportation projects in the 8th Congressional District and Rep. Schrier's bill to provide funding to the Legacy Roads and Trails Program.
WASHINGTON, DC – Late last week, Congresswoman Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08) announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded a $92 million Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) grant for the Apple Capital Loop Project.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08) today announced that six of her requested Community Project Funding (CPF) priorities have been included in the House Interior and Agriculture initial funding bills. The bills will be considered on the House floor in July. Further information on Rep. Schrier's additional requests will be announced in mid-July when more spending bills are released.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Representatives Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08), Tom O'Halleran (AZ-01), Elissa Slotkin (MI-08), and Suzan DelBene (WA-01) reintroduced the Medicare Vision Act of 2021 to expand Medicare coverage to provide affordable vision care. As of now, gaps in Medicare make it hard for 60 million seniors and younger people with disabilities to afford vision services.
WENATCHEE - Wenatchee's Apple Capital Loop Project has been awarded a $92.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The Apple Capital Loop project is a network of projects completing an 11-mile loop that serves as the backbone for highway, transit and active modes of transportation supported by a number of regional partners including the city of Wenatchee, Chelan and Douglas counties, WSDOT, Chelan-Douglas Regional Port Authority, LINK Transit and the Chelan-Douglas Transportation Council.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and U.S. Representative Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08) announced a $92.4 million Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) for the Apple Capital Loop in Wenatchee.
As the summer heat adds to the West's significant drought, 8th District Representative Kim Schrier continues to point to the National Prescribed Fire Act as a possible solution to the massive fires in recent years.
Schrier said her bill would require the Forest Service and Department of the Interior to increase their controlled burn acreage by providing them both with $300 million annually for the work.
The newly proposed federal MAPLand Act would provide resources to digitize map records as part of an effort to improve access to public lands.
Representatives Blake Moore (R-UT), Ross Fulcher (R-ID), Joe Neguse (D-CO) and Kim Schrier (D-WA) recently introduced the Modernizing Access to our Public Land Act to digitize federal land mapping records.
"There are people that desperately want to know where they can go and enjoy these public lands," Congressman Blake Moore said.