Congress

Today, U.S. Representatives Andrea Salinas (OR-06) and Adrian Smith (NE-03), alongside Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), introduced the KOMBUCHA Act, which would modernize outdated federal alcohol taxes and regulations on kombucha companies in Oregon and nationwide.

Today, Congresswoman Andrea Salinas (OR-06) released the following statement on her vote against the Republicans’ Farm Bill.

Congresswoman Andrea Salinas (OR-06) released the following statement on her vote against House Republicans’ budget resolution that would give $70 billion to ICE and CBP with no strings attached.

Today, U.S. Congresswoman Andrea Salinas (OR-06) heard from mothers about the strain of President Trump’s affordability crisis and what it would mean for their families to cap child care at 7% of their income.

Today, U.S. Congresswoman Andrea Salinas (OR-06) led twenty-nine of her colleagues in a public comment letter to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) opposing a proposed Trump Administration rule that would effectively bar asylum seekers from getting an initial work permit and give the agency sweeping authority to deny renewals.

On Friday, U.S. Congresswoman Andrea Salinas (OR-06) joined former Governor Barbara Roberts, State Representative David Gomberg, Sheridan Mayor Cale George, and Sheridan School District Superintendent Dorie Vickery to celebrate $850,000 in federal Community Project Funding that she secured for the Barbara Roberts Career Technical Education Center (BRCTEC) in Sheridan.

Today, U.S. Congresswoman Andrea Salinas (OR-06) led 15 of her colleagues in a letter to the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Joseph Edlow, to request answers about why the Trump Administration is failing to process Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program renewals in a timely manner — putting DACA recipients at risk of deportation.