Suzan DelBene

Congresswoman Suzan DelBene introduced legislation that would make it easier for Americans participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to access job training services.

Congresswoman Suzan DelBene presented Snohomish County with a $750K check for its Food and Farming Center, which will serve as a crucial resource hub for fruit and vegetable farmers across Snohomish, Whatcom, Skagit, and King counties.

Last month, western Washington representative Suzan DelBene announced that the farming community may be eligible for disaster-related relief funds due to excessive heat and droughts. “Many on this call I know experienced firsthand this series of heat waves, the heat dome that hit the Northwest last summer, including the time in June where our temperatures went up to 120 degrees.  Pai...

Several Northwest lawmakers are calling on Homeland Security for an exemption when it comes to COVID vaccination requirements. Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security announced essential personnel crossing into the U.S. via land border show proof of a CDC-approved COVID-19 vaccination ...

Congresswoman Suzan DelBene is welcoming the news that the U.S. and European Union have agreed to lift their ban on shellfish trade. The 2011 ban on selling bivalves to the EU has had a substantial impact on many coastal communities in the Pacific Northwest ...

Congresswoman Suzan DelBene is calling for swift implementation of WHIP+ funds created to help Pacific Northwest producers hurt by this summer’s record heat event. The Northwest Washington representative says from one single extreme heat event in June, berry, potato, seafood farmers reported massive losses. ...

Northwest Washington’s Suzan DelBene recently announced $10 billion in relief funding for farmers and other agricultural producers impacted by the summer heat and drought. Nick Martin, with DelBene’s office, said this funding was secured via WHIP+ program, recently approved by the House. "Th ...

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai meet with Washington farmers and ranchers Thursday. Tai and U.S. Representative Suzan DelBene toured the Washington State University Breadlab in Burlington and participate in a roundtable with local agriculture and farm stakeholders ...

On Tuesday, western Washington’s Suzan DelBene and central Washington’s Dan Newhouse led a bipartisan, bicameral letter to Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack, urging the USDA to open relief programs to more producers that have lost crops or livestock. In respon ...

Last week, Representatives Dan Newhouse, Jimmy Panetta, Jim Costa and others led 70 colleagues writing a bipartisan letter to Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue and the USDA, calling on him to spend specific funding to protect Ag workers. The letter calls on Perdue to make at least $1.5 bi ...