President Joe Biden has served with distinction as a U.S. Senator, Vice President, and President. In the Senate he supported legislation to act on climate change and helped pass the Violence Against Women Act. As Vice President he helped lead our economic recovery with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and expanded access to health care with the Affordable Care Act. He brought his values and deep experience to the White House as he helped guide us through the tumultuous wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

During his very productive term he signed into law monumental legislation that will create a better future for all, including long-overdue efforts to rebuild and improve infrastructure, address the climate crisis, strengthen semiconductor manufacturing, lower prescription drug costs, create quality union jobs, cut child poverty, strengthen NATO, and more. The legacy he built and the policies he championed will invigorate our country and economy for years to come.

President Biden is a people person. I remember the time when he, as Vice President, took the initiative to call my mother-in-law to say hello. And how he left the stage at a Democratic issues conference to embrace my now late colleague Mark Takai, who had just been diagnosed with cancer. And I will never forget when he, as President of the United States visiting Oregon on my birthday, disembarked from Air Force One and handed me a cupcake.

I am grateful for President Biden’s service and dedicated leadership, and I will continue doing all I can to work with the Biden-Harris administration and build on his legacy.

Serving Summer Meals with Beaverton SD

Funding Rural Clean Water Infrastructure

Protecting Access to IVF

The full spectrum of reproductive care—including IVF treatment—is at risk after the fall of Roe v. Wade. I joined some of my Democratic Women Caucus and Pro Choice Caucus colleagues on World IVF Day to call on Speaker Johnson to bring the Right to IVF Act to the House floor for a vote. Whether or when someone has a child is a deeply personal decision that has an enormous effect on their future. We must protect this important way to help families to welcome a child into their lives when they are ready.

ICYMI

• On the day Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a joint address to Congress, I met with several people who shared powerful stories about their loved ones held hostage by Hamas. They feel abandoned by their government, and agreed that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not doing enough to release the hostages and stop the war that is killing Israelis and Palestinians.
• I condemn the attack on the former president and all forms of political violence.
• Read my statement about the SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity.
• I led my colleagues in defending the Biden-Harris administration’s Title IX rule on the House floor.
• I remembered the late Peter Courtney, my former colleague in the Oregon Senate and Oregon’s longest-serving state legislator.
• I’m working with the Stop Project 2025 Task Force to counter this extreme plan.