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June 30, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) secured $2,000,000 as part of the INVEST in America Act for the Puyallup Avenue Transit/Complete Street Improvements Project in the City of Tacoma.


June 30, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) secured $750,000 as part of the INVEST in America Act for the Seattle Department of Transportation's MLK Jr. Way S Safety and Accessibility Improvements Project.


June 30, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) secured $2,500,000 as part of the INVEST in America Act for the City of Kent's Meeker Complete Street/Safe Routes to School Project.


June 30, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) secured $1,800,000 as part of the INVEST in America Act for the Seattle Department of Transportation's Georgetown to South Park Connection.


June 30, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) secured $1,680,000 as part of the INVEST in America Act for the Eastrail Wilburton Critical Crossing in King County.


June 30, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) secured $1,000,000 as part of the INVEST in America Act for the Bellevue Transit Center Safety and Connectivity Project.


June 30, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) secured $1,270,000 as part of the INVEST in America Act for the City of Tukwila's 42nd Ave S Bridge Replacement Project.


June 25, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) secured $673,000 in the 2022 Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill for World Relief Seattle's Entrepreneurship Incubation Hub: Teaching & Commercial Kitchen located in Kent, Washington.


June 23, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, today issued the following statement after Representatives Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) and Mike Turner (R-Ohio) introduced the Vanessa Guillén Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act.


June 19, 2021

SEATTLE, WA - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) released the following statement in honor of Juneteenth after speaking at the Northwest African American Museum's (NAAM) Juneteenth Jamboree.

"On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger led Union soldiers led into Galveston, Texas with news that the Civil War had ended and that the people held in slavery there were free - but it was two and a half years after President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation legally abolishing slavery in the United States.

Issues: Civil Rights