Gluesenkamp Perez reflects on first 100 days in Congress

Centralia — On Monday, May 1, U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Washougal, celebrated her first 100 days in Congress. In a news release, her office highlighted milestones from her work in Southwest Washington and Washington, D.C.

“I promised to be an independent voice for Southwest Washington. I’m proud of the work my bipartisan team and I have done to deliver on that promise in our first 100 days, and we’re just getting started,” Gluesenkamp Perez said in the release.

At home in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, the release stated the congresswoman has returned $192,437.31 in money owed to residents by federal agencies; helped 384 residents with a federal agency, including the Internal Revenue Service, the State Department and others; held 193 meetings with Southwest Washington constituents, stakeholders and community leaders — 101 in Southwest Washington and 92 in Washington, D.C.; held three in-person town halls, one in Skamania County, one in Clark County and one in Cowlitz County (with one set to be held in Lewis County this week); and hosted two Farm Bill listening sessions with agricultural leaders from across Southwest Washington.

“In the next 100 days and beyond, I’ll continue fighting to level the playing field for families and providing the high-quality constituent services that Southwest Washington deserves,” Gluesenkamp Perez said.

As for her legislative wins, the release stated Gluesenkamp Perez has cast more than 180 votes on the House floor; earned a bipartisan cosponsor percentage of more than 80%; attended 10 committee hearings; introduced four bipartisan bills on issues including right-to-repair, empowering career and technical education graduates, expanding community wood facilities, and investing in forest management; authored three amendments considered on the House floor and became the only freshman Democratic lawmaker to have their amendments considered on the House floor; and helped secure land conveyance of the Wind River Administrative Site from the U.S. Forestry Service to Skamania County.

The release also said one of her “personal wins” was shipping an 8-foot chain saw across the country to “remind everyone who visits our Washington, D.C. office of the power of hard work and the domestic jobs that keep our country running.”