First Alaska Native Elected to U.S. Congress
Mary Peltola, an Alaska Yup’ik Native, has won a special election to become the first Alaska Native and the first Alaskan woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
“I am honored, humbled, and absolutely speechless,” Peltola posted on.
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Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to correct Carrie Herrman’s name.
Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson created a proposal to demolish the Snake River dams to restore the salmon and steelhead populations.
Two years ago, only 14 wild Sockeye salmon were reported to have made it to the Stanley Basin in Idaho, said Carrie Herrman, outreach coordinator for Save Our Wild Salmon.
“Before any dams were here in the Pacific Northwest, there were hundreds of thousands [of salmon that made it through],” she said.
Since the dams were built in the late 1950s, the salmon population has decreased by 90 percent, said Bill Arthur, chair of the Snake/Columbia River Salmon campaign at the Sierra Club. The populations are being flushed to the ocean and through the dams too quickly, killing migrating salmon.
Inslee, entire Democratic Wash. Congressional members call to remove Trump from office KOMO News Staff
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WASHINGTON, D.C. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has joined all of the state s entire Democratic Congressional members in calling for Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment in order to remove President Donald Trump from office or use Congress to impeach the president a second time in the wake of pro-Trump supporters storming the U.S. Capitol Wednesday. Four people died during the insurrection.
Joining Inslee are Washington Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, along with the 7 Democratic members of the House: Rep. Suzan DelBene (WA-01), Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02), Rep. Derek Kilmer (WA-06), Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Rep. Kim Schrier (WA-08), Rep. Adam Smith (WA-09), and Rep. Marilyn Strickland (WA-10).