Norm Dicks
Norm Dicks
Norman DeValois "Norm" Dickswas the U.S. Representative for Washington's 6th congressional district, serving between 1977 and 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party. His district was located in the northwestern corner of the state, and includes most of Tacoma. Norman Dicks retired at the end of the 112th Congress. He currently serves as Senior Policy Advisor at the law and public policy firm Van Ness Feldman LLP. He is the longest-serving member ever of the United States House...
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What I did was sit down with the Washington State officials, with the historic preservation people, with the tribe, the local community, the port of Port Angeles, and we worked this thing out, and we protected the tribe's interest.
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For all of us who have been involved in the recovery efforts to bring back and strengthen wild salmon runs, we fear that this change in policy could lead to further declines in these wild stocks.
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In my own area, Hood Canal, we are working with the USGS on dealing with this oxygenation problem.
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In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more.
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That was exasperating, to see this matter trivialized like that,
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I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.
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We are increasingly hearing from those who are paying the bills for these efforts and experiencing the impacts of additional regulations on their lives that they don't understand how we can ask them to support such costs and at the same time continue to harvest the wild salmon we're trying to protect.
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It's going to be a 2006 elections issue.
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I have served on the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations for 26 years, the Subcommittee on Military Construction for 18 years.
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We all know these riders have gotten this bill into trouble every single year.
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Every community in my district has benefited from the National Endowment for the Arts and by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines.
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There's a real strong argument that having two strong shipyards on each coast makes good sense,
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They have tested some things, and they have the potential to do some things in the future,