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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This would have been a nice thing to have, but hey, the commission overwhelmingly decided the secretary of Defense has not made a case to close down the second shipyard on the East Coast. There's a real strong argument that having two strong shipyards on each coast makes good sense.
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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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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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That was exasperating, to see this matter trivialized like that,
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Here's my problem with the Endangered Species Act: We don't take any eagles. We don't take any wolves.
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Several panels of scientists, both within the agency and outside of it, have concluded that hatchery fish can cause harm to their wild counterparts.
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Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.
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More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.
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We all know these riders have gotten this bill into trouble every single year.
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It's going to be a 2006 elections issue.
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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.