OLYMPIA A day in the life of a legislator never looks the same from one day to the next, but here’s a snippet into a day at the Capitol for Rep. Tom Dent, R-Moses Lake.
Wednesday, April 5, started with a meeting at 7 a.m. for Dent for a weekly media interview to discuss various bills.
After discussing proposed legislation such as House Bill 1134 that implements supporting infrastructure to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, Dent headed from his office in the John L. O'Brien Building to the Capitol Building only a few hundred feet away.
OLYMPIA — The Washington Senate voted Thursday to raise the beef checkoff, sending to the House an issue that s divided cattlemen. Senate Bill 5150 would hike the per-head fee for
Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus, recently blasted the Biden administration for its secretive release of a final “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule while the Supreme Court has yet to rule on a pending court case.