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Strickland Introduces Legislation To Help HBCUs Become Top Tier Research Institutions
Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland along with several other congressional advocates are betting their political capital on the brilliant minds that attend historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU), as they have introduced the ‘‘HBCU Research, Innovation, Security, and Excellence Act’’ (RISE Act) which will bring federal dollars in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to HBCUs. According to…
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Strickland Demands SBA To Be Accountable For Disaster Loans
Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland (WA-10) along with 70 of her colleagues, including three Republicans, recently sent a bipartisan letter to the Small Business Administration (SBA) demanding accountability on how they have been processing Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) applications. The EIDL is a $1 trillion federal small business loan program that supports small businesses recovery from…
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Hot seat: Strickland defends Democrats’ work on gun control
Washington state’s newest member of Congress says the best way to pass federal gun control legislation is for voters to turn out and elect more Democrats this November. U.S. Rep. Marilyn Strickland, D-Tacoma, made those comments to Axios two days after the shooting in Uvalde, Texas that killed 19 schoolchildren and two teachers. Driving the news: During an interview…
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Strickland Introduces Legislation To Increase Military Access To Affordable Housing
Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland (WA-10), who serves on the House Committee on Armed Services, recently introduced a package of legislative bills to help improve access to housing and affordability for our men and women in the armed services. The bill package, Ensuring Every Servicemember Has a Home, contains four separate but connected bills – the Basic Allowance…
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Strickland supports funding for HBCUs, despite none in Northwest
Historically Black colleges and universities will receive a boost in federal funding, under a measure supported in part by U.S. Rep. Marilyn Strickland, D-Tacoma. The Democratic member of Congress, and HBCU alumna, says it’s about giving a boost to institutions that benefit the whole country, including Washington’s 10th Congressional District. Strickland graduated from the University…
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Strickland Backs Cannabis Reform
Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland (D-WA) is making her support known for federal cannabis reform. This week her office issued a news release highlighting her role in leading 10 of her bi-partisan colleagues to sign a letter to Congressional leadership calling for the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act to be passed by Congress. The letter was sent to…
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Roll Call: Take Five: Marilyn Strickland
Washington Democrat and former Starbucks-er talks drip coffee, her first year in Congress. It’s fitting that Marilyn Strickland is Heard on the Hill’s first Take Five interview for 2022. After all, the Washington Democrat is someone well accustomed to going first: She was the first Black woman to be mayor of Tacoma, her state’s first…
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Washington Post’s The Lily: For these congresswomen of color, the Jan. 6 attack still isn’t over
Last year, in the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, congressional lawmakers who are women of color said they felt uniquely vulnerable. Some of the most enduring images of the attack were racist symbols. Some were overt: Confederate flags; a noose hanging from a set of gallows, bringing to mind a lynching. Others…
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ABC News Live: Democratic congresswoman recalls firsthand account of Capitol attack
Rep. Marilyn Strickland, D-Wash., remembers her first week on the job at the time of the insurrection, and gives insight on lessons we can learn as a nation.