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Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a senior member and former chair of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, and Representative Adam Smith (D-WA-09) sent a letter to Dr. Thomas Bundt, the Executive Director of the Veterans Affairs (VA) Puget Sound Health Care System, concerning Building 18 at VA Puget Sound.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representatives Adam Smith (WA-09) and Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) and Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) are today announcing $5,000,000 in funding for the City of Seattle from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing (PRO Housing) program. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representatives Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, and Donald Norcross (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee, released the following joint statement in response to an amendment to the Department Defense (DoD) Appropriations Act, which would have temporarily reduced the number of F-35 aircraft purchased in fiscal year 2025 until program failures were addressed, being ruled out of order and blocked from debate.  

SEATTLE, WA – Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) released the following statement on the passing of George R. Nethercutt, Jr. who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2005 representing Washington’s Fifth District.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) recently announced the 15 Community Project Funding requests he submitted to the House Appropriations Committee for consideration in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 appropriations bill.
 
This funding would support projects across the Ninth District that invest in affordable housing, workforce development and job training, public safety, economic development, transportation and infrastructure, and more.
 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today Representatives Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.) and Senators Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced the Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2024, which would grant U.S. citizenship to international adoptees who were legally adopted in the U.S. as children but lack citizenship status due to a loophole in the Child Citizenship Act of 2000.
 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) released the following statement on the ongoing war in Israel and Gaza and the urgent need to reach a ceasefire agreement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) released the following statement announcing the 15 Community Project Funding requests he submitted to the House Appropriations Committee for consideration in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 appropriations bills.