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March 29, 2004

Today U.S. Rep. Adam Smith (WA-09) and U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02) participated in a classified Strategic Policy Forum, "Masked Dragon," that brought together 14 Members of Congress, senior military and Executive Branch leaders, and selected state and local officials. The handpicked group examined the complexity and difficulty involved in responding to a series of escalating crises on the Korean Peninsula at a time of ongoing military operations and overseas deployment of U.S. Armed Forces. "Masked Dragon" sought to understand the full range of policy options available to the U.S.


March 29, 2004

Congressman Adam Smith (D-Tacoma) is pleased to announce today a law enforcement grant for the city of Lakewood. The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) announced a grant to the city of Lakewood of $375,000. These funds would cover the salary and benefits of three new school resource officers (SROs) over the next three years who will be assigned to a school as their community policing area. COPS also provides school safety training for the officers and an administrator from the school where the officers will be assigned.


March 24, 2004

The House Transportation Committee yesterday completed its mark-up of HR 3550, the Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users, better known as the TEA-LU. This measure reauthorizes federal surface transportation assistance for state and local governments. When it was reported out of committee, the measure included language authorizing $14 million in projects that would go directly to the 9th District, due to the efforts by Congressman Smith. Smith requested many quality projects be included in the TEA-LU bill and he was happy to see that 10 were included in the final bill.


March 23, 2004

Today, the European Commission dealt a blow to technological innovation in its antitrust ruling against Microsoft. Headquartered in Washington state, Microsoft is a leader in job creation and economic growth in the Puget Sound region and today's ruling will negatively impact on the economy there. Congressman Adam Smith released a statement expressing his disappointment that efforts to settle this case have failed.


March 9, 2004

The three co-chairs of the House New Democrat Coalition (NDC), Representatives Jim Davis (FL-11), Ron Kind (WI-03), and Adam Smith (WA-09), issued the following joint press release on the 2004 New Democrat e-genda.


March 9, 2004

Congressman Adam Smith (D-Tacoma) received the Information Technology Industry Council's 2003 "Legislator of the Year" award today.

The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), representing top U.S. providers of information technology (IT) products and services, gives the annual award to a leader in high-tech policy.

"As co-chairman of the New Democrats, Congressman Smith is a leader in pro-growth policies and has consistently rallied support within the House Democratic Caucus on new ways of growing our economy," said Rhett Dawson, president of ITI.


March 2, 2004

Congressman Adam Smith (D-Tacoma) introduced legislation today that would extend Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) benefits to displaced service workers, such as software programmers and other hi-tech workers. TAA provides income support, job training, job searching, relocation assistance and health care tax credits to workers who have lost their jobs due to foreign trade.


February 25, 2004

Congressman Adam Smith (D-Tacoma) called on his colleagues in the U.S. House to immediately pass legislation to provide a manufacturing tax credit to help the country's struggling economy and avoid pending European trade sanctions on American goods and services.


January 29, 2004

Congressman Adam Smith (D-Tacoma) spoke today to students, staff and community leaders at the University of Washington on progressive internationalism and sustainable development.

In his speech, Smith stated, "We are at war with al Qaeda and w must fight terrorism throughout the globe and here at home. We must deal with the threat of failed states. We must promote economic engagement throughout the world. Diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis are enormous challenges to stability and economic growth in developing nations."


January 19, 2004

Congressman Adam Smith (D-Tacoma) issued the following statement in response to President George Bush's State of the Union address this evening:

"While the President outlined a number of issues that were important to his agenda, what struck me was what he didn't elaborate on - the exploding federal debt, a real plan for job creation and a strategy for reinvigorating our foreign policy and repairing damaged relations with our allies.