Rep. James McDermott

Democrat  •  7th District, Washington  •  11th Term  •  Sworn In 1989
Current Term 2009 - 2010 View All
  • Votes with party 97%
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11/19/09
Actor Scott Wolf Testifies on Capitol Hill About the Unprecedented Demand and ...

The hearing was chaired by Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight, and Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA), Chairman, ...

Source: PR Newswire (press release)
11/18/09
House Democrats To Ditch Permanent Estate Tax Bill For 1-Year Fix

said Rep. Jim McDermott (D., Wash.) He said that uncertainty about whether the Senate would be able to pass a permanent estate tax fix has given many House ...

Source: NASDAQ
11/18/09
RE: James McDermott

... introduction of the New Partnership for Trade Development Act of 2009(HR 4101) in the US House of Representatives by Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA). ...

Source: Fibre2fashion.com
11/18/09
Agencies Setting Up Their Own Employees

... since from what Chief Human Capital Officer Jim McDermott says, it sounds like the pairings that have resulted are between agency employees, ...

Source: GovExec.com
11/18/09
RE: James McDermott

... and these payments are enabling people to pay their mortgages and put food on the table,” said Representative Jim McDermott, Democrat of Washington, ...

Source: New York Times
11/17/09
RE: James McDermott

But Jim McDermott, chief human capital officer of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, thinks he's found a foolproof way to convince young engineers to come ...

Source: Federal Times
11/15/09
Money Makes Congress Aware of Online Casino Freedoms

"I'm always looking for money to deal with some of the problems I see out there," said Representative Jim mcdermott to the Wall Street Journal, ...

Source: Online Casino Advisory
11/15/09
Jobless Benefits Will Now Reach More Women

Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., chair of the Income Security and Family Support Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee wrote the modernization ...

Source: Women's eNews
11/14/09
Health care reform is the great white whale of Rep. Jim McDermott's political ...

We have to keep paying for his sorry butt every year to promote crap that buys votes from the handout class while stealing from those who produce or would ...

Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer
11/13/09
McDermott on Obama: President's career on the line in health care reform

Health care reform is the great white whale of Rep. Jim McDermott's political career, an engrossing goal since he entered Congress in 1989, ...

Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer
11/13/09
US-India SCCP receives endorsement from Rep. Jim McDermott.

The US-India Standards and Conformance Cooperation Program (SCCP) was recently endorsed by Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) of the US House of Representatives. ...

Source: ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release)
11/13/09
GOP clueless as families struggle with health care

Washington Rep. Jim mcdermott and Arkansas Rep. Vic Snyder, both Democrats and medical doctors, told me this week they expect the Senate to adopt a bill and ...

Source: Seattle Times
11/13/09
RE: James McDermott

Washington Rep. Jim mcdermott and Arkansas Rep. Vic Snyder, both Democrats and medical doctors, told me this week they expect the Senate to adopt a bill and ...

Source: Seattle Times
11/13/09
Get ready for sports book competition, regulator says

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., has introduced a bill legalizing and regulating online gaming at the federal level, while Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., ...

Source: Las Vegas Sun
11/12/09
US Rep. Brian Baird says he also backs request for money to buy gorge land

Oregon Congressmen Earl Blumenauer, David Wu, Kurt Schrader and Peter DeFazio joined in the request, as did Washington Congressmen Jay Inslee, Jim McDermott ...

Source: OregonLive.com
11/12/09
RE: James McDermott

Introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman Jim mcdermott, the resolution is co-sponsored by three others – Ed Royce, Gary Ackerman and Dan ...

Source: India Journal
11/12/09
GOP clueless as families struggle with health care

...demand the federal government have the ability to bargain for volume discounts on prescription purchases. Washington Rep. Jim McDermott and Arkansas Rep. Vic Snyder, both Democrats and medical doctors, told me this week they expect the Senate to adopt a

11/12/09
RE: James McDermott

Washington Rep. Jim mcdermott and Arkansas Rep. Vic Snyder, both Democrats and medical doctors, told me this week they expect the Senate to adopt a bill and ...

Source: Seattle Times
11/11/09
Pelosi calls Swedish leader in health care

Jim mcdermott of Seattle and Jay Inslee of Bainbridge Island. The hospital's innovative use of technology makes it a model for health-care reform in the ...

Source: Seattle University Spectator
11/11/09
Republicans offer….the Clinton health care plan?

Some ideas attributed to Clinton were actually devised by Congressional Democrats like Jim mcdermott and Fortney "Pete" Stark, who offered liberal rivals to ...

Source: Southern Political Report
11/11/09
Biden calls 7 Fort Lewis soldiers 'fallen angels'

Norm Dicks, Adam Smith, Jim mcdermott and Jay Inslee; and retired Lt. Gen. William Harrison of Lakewood, a former Fort Lewis commander. ...

Source: TheNewsTribune.com
11/11/09
Washington State Calendar

6:15 pm SNAKE RIVER DAMS — US Rep. Jim McDermott, sponsor of new proposed federal legislation to assess removal of the four lower Snake River dams, ...

Source: Newsday
11/10/09
Baird under fire for 'no' vote

Monday's rallies came the same day that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited a Seattle hospital with Congressmen Jim McDermott and Jay Inslee, AARP and labor ...

Source: The Olympian
11/10/09
Pots, kettles and Moscow's mayor

As committee member and congressman Jim McDermott says: “Given the many critical government programs currently going under-funded or not funded at all, ...

Source: This is London
11/10/09
Sanders: Keep public option in Senate bill

AP Photo/Elaine Thompson House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, center, is flanked by Rep. Jim mcdermott, right, and Rep. Jay Inslee during a news conference at ...

Source: BurlingtonFreePress.com
11/10/09
RE: James McDermott

AP Photo/Elaine Thompson House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, center, is flanked by Rep. Jim mcdermott, right, and Rep. Jay Inslee during a news conference at ...

Source: BurlingtonFreePress.com
11/10/09
Pelosi tours Seattle hospital to see health care in action

...since the House vote Saturday, Pelosi toured Swedish Medical Center flanked by two of her Democratic colleagues, Rep. Jim McDermott of Seattle and Rep. Jay Inslee of Bainbridge Island, Wash. Swedish, the area's largest health-care system, has won notice

11/10/09
Pelosi tours Seattle hospital to see health care in action

...since the House vote Saturday, Pelosi toured Swedish Medical Center flanked by two of her Democratic colleagues, Rep. Jim McDermott of Seattle and Rep. Jay Inslee of Bainbridge Island, Wash. Swedish, the area's largest health-care system, has won notice

11/10/09
HEALTH: Nearly universal coverage is a step closer

Norm Dicks and Jim mcdermott signed on as co-sponsors to (HR 676), but I am very pleased at this step towards meaningful health care reform. ...

Source: TheNewsTribune.com
11/10/09
Letters to the Editor for Nov. 10

...New York Times. He cited Sen. Bernie Sanders bill S.703, to increase funding from $2 billion to $8 billion in 2014, like Rep. Jim McDermott’s 2007 bill H.R. 1200. But if it was more, there is our public option. Without mandates, matching grants to non

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Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-3106
Fax: 202-225-6197

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