Senate Republican Caucus
Dozier applauds latest sign of support for Snake River dams
WAITSBURG… As ordered by President Donald Trump in mid-June, efforts to revisit the plan for operating the four lower Snake River dams have now been halted. This week the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation withdrew their intent to prepare a supplemental environmental impact statement,...
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Good news from D.C. for defenders of Snake River dams
Around 100 people gave up part of a recent Saturday afternoon to attend a post-session town hall with the delegations from the neighboring 8th Legislative District and our 16th Legislative District. Keep reading for more details! Dear Neighbor, In a guest column published during this year’s legislative session I speculated...
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Despite signing of anti-parents’ rights bill, ‘this isn’t over,’ says Dozier
WAITSBURG… Sen. Perry Dozier is dismayed by today’s signing of legislation that immediately undermines Washington’s highly popular parental-rights law, created in 2024 after the Waitsburg Republican had tried for years to put a similar law into place. The law created by House Bill 1296 eliminates important rights that had been...
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Legislature adjourns; here’s a snapshot of what happened
It’s normal for the new state budgets to be adopted on the final day of our regular legislative session, and this year was no different. This is how the operating budget looked as it sat on the “bar” at the front of the Senate chamber on Sunday. The stack contains...
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Majority is determined to raise your taxes, one way or another
Dear Neighbor, This year’s regular legislative session will end no later than midnight this coming Sunday. Our state constitution says so, because the regular sessions in odd-numbered years are limited to 105 days — and Sunday is day 105. If the Legislature still has work to do, it can go...
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Dozier opposes first wave of Democrat tax hikes
OLYMPIA… Today Sen. Perry Dozier and his fellow Republican senators opposed the first round of major tax increases brought to the full Senate: a sales-tax increase that will hit lower- and middle-income families harder, a tax increase that will drive capital out of Washington, and a collection of unrelated tax...
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The attack on parental rights continues in Olympia
Dear Neighbor, Late in a legislative session, the priorities of the majority come into focus. Judging from the two major policy bills that were passed Thursday and Friday by the Senate’s majority Democrats, the priorities can be summed up in a word: control. Let’s go in reverse order. On Friday...
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Senate unanimously approves capital budget ‘for the entire state’
The Senate today unanimously approved its version of the 2025-27 state capital budget, with the Republicans who helped develop the spending plan praising it for addressing needs throughout Washington. “What we have is a capital budget for the entire state,” said 9th District Sen. Mark Schoesler, R-Ritzville, the lead Republican for...
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Watch out! Majority wants to raise your property taxes
Dear Neighbor, A year ago, the only tax increase Democrats were pushing would have tripled the limit on the growth of property-tax rates. Because that bill stood alone, the news media focused on it — which helped to fuel the public outrage that eventually forced Democrats to drop the idea....
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