Gluesenkamp Perez Statement Ahead of Presidential Address to Joint Session of Congress

<p>Today, <a href="http://gluesenkampperez.house.gov/">Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)</a> released the following statement ahead of the President’s address to a joint session of Congress:</p>

<p><em>“Across Southwest Washington, folks are experiencing challenges. Fentanyl continues to hollow out communities, it&#8217;s still too difficult to start a small business, run a family farm, or buy a home, and prices for everyday needs like groceries, childcare, and more remain too high. During tonight’s Presidential address, I hope we will hear a unifying message focused on how we can work together to address these challenges.</em></p>

<p><em>I would like the President to share plans to prevent a looming catastrophic government shutdown, </em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/RepMGP/posts/pfbid0X5psQskAgjPWvjju2ecQBHjsVnCmYShghPfj9tCzQczCW81dKnk9F7fbLgSouVv6l"><em>support Ukraine</em></a><em> against Putin’s </em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2894811997352382"><em>unprovoked invasion</em></a><em>, and find common ground to </em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/RepMGP/posts/pfbid02fscmSUJs3TMgiWaVEbt5ZCnNACCQmch9eVrDbhgu2av2T41xaLb1ktS6KeC9otHHl"><em>keep our woods working</em></a><em>, expand opportunities in the skilled trades, and reform permitting to bring down costs of energy and housing. Neither executive actions nor resulting litigation are a substitute for durable, bipartisan legislative work by Congress.</em></p>

<p><em>The President should also provide clarity about how we can steward taxpayer dollars and cut burdensome red tape in a way that respects the institutional knowledge and hard work of federal employees working timber sales, preventing wildfire, dredging our rivers, </em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/RepMGP/posts/pfbid02RpoQLNENUdtseGv6yii4XHXNsyMpYPjBCZh6fjnR6EFBfnKTn7BfEszR8NV8ZARQl"><em>stringing</em></a><em> power lines, delivering rural mail, and </em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/RepMGP/posts/pfbid02rjygzGe1bAqt93yjaeSXHtsyyCMpepJzNgkXLxKgZ2VW7ySTPze3ay17bD6A8VPBl"><em>keeping</em></a><em> fishermen safe with vital weather information.</em></p>

<p><em>Partisan tensions are flaring in the media – but it doesn’t eliminate the need to solve the problems that matter to Southwest Washington and that most of us agree on. I’ll continue to do what I’ve always done: steer clear of clickbait politics, make bipartisan progress as a member of the House minority, and remain fiercely loyal to what I’m hearing in our communities, red and blue, and from our coast to our woods.”</em></p>

<p>Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGy9srPPSsb/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==">will be bringing</a> a Clark County corrections officer as her guest for the address, to highlight challenges <a href="https://gluesenkampperez.house.gov/posts/gluesenkamp-perez-meets-with-student-leaders-visits-clark-county-jail">faced</a> by local officers. In prior years, she brought a Pacific County shellfish grower and a Kalama High School trades educator as her guests.</p>
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