Jaime Herrera Beutler: “The U.S. has an increasingly, or I should say, an increasing number of maternal mortality events in our country.”

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

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.

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

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.