Jaime Herrera Beutler: “I just think, lastly, that this whole idea of having a strong legislative branch that is independent from the executive…”

I think one of the things, we were talking about fentanyl and overdose deaths and those increasing.

The data on that is rolling in, and it is not promising.

In April, inflation was 8.3 percent, and the cost of food, housing, gas, energy, all of it is at record levels.

I think my challenge is, is that they limit the pool of qualified bidders primarily to one stream of bidders.