WA · DISTRICT 8

Kim Schrier

DemocratWashingtonCurrently serving

Sworn in for the 119th Congress on January 3, 2025 Source ↗

What they said 4

Their stated policy positions and commitments, with quotes and links to the original sources.

All statements (4)Campaign (3)After election (1)

After the election · Original date not established

Education Agriculture & food

Set national guidance for school lunch and recess schedules

AI-assisted summary

Kim Schrier supports the Healthy Meal Time Act, which would direct the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Education to create a task force and issue best-practice guidance to schools in the National School Lunch Program. The task force would review research and account for time spent traveling to lunch, waiting in line, getting utensils and condiments, and clearing trays. Any recommended seated eating time would follow the latest CDC recommendation and allow time to eat unprocessed and minimally processed foods. Schrier says the bill aims to give students enough time to eat nutritious meals.

Context: The bill is a proposal, not enacted law. Its guidance would be based on task-force recommendations; the bill does not itself set a required lunch duration for schools.

Campaign position · Original date not established

Foreign affairs & defense

Support a two-state solution in the Middle East

AI-assisted summary

Schrier supports a two-state solution in which Israel lives safely and securely alongside a safe and prosperous Palestinian state. She says leaders undermining that goal should be pushed back to negotiations and calls for a recalibration of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

Context: The source does not specify what changes to U.S. policy she would make.

Campaign position · commitment · Original date not established

Immigration Government & elections

Withhold funding from ICE and CBP until they meet stated conditions

AI-assisted summary

Schrier says she will continue to withhold funding from ICE and CBP until the agencies change their conduct, remove officers’ masks, and obey the law. She also supports transparency and accountability measures to rein in the agencies.

Context: The funding condition applies until the agencies meet the stated conditions; the source does not define how compliance would be determined.

Campaign position · commitment · Original date not established

Housing

Increase housing supply and access to homeownership

AI-assisted summary

Schrier is working to pass bills addressing housing affordability and expanding access to homeownership, including the Permanent Housing Affordability Act. She also worked with colleagues on the bipartisan 21st Century Road to Housing Act package, which she says improves federal housing programs to increase housing supply and lower costs.

Context: The source does not describe the provisions of the Permanent Housing Affordability Act.