Jaime Herrera Beutler: “I urge the Committee to support this bill, and I ask that you help us preserve the treasures of Fort Vancouver.”

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

Washington State is--practically speaking, you can do drugs, just about anything, in front of an officer.

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

In Washington State, just in 2021, there was a 66 percent increase in drug-related overdose deaths, and more than half of these are due to fentanyl.