Jaime Herrera Beutler: “I understand there is a sensitivity to if I am working on legislation with my leg staff.”

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

My opinion is this mandate is going to increase the cost of Federal construction projects, and it is going to curb competition.

If we do not immediately put together a COVID supplemental package, we are going to put everyone, and seniors and people who are uninsured... they will turn around and go home.

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.