WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez represents Washington's 3rd Congressional District, a notoriously purple district that includes Clark County and was held by a Republican for more than a decade until Gluesenkamp Perez was elected in 2022.

Sometimes referred to be her initials on Capitol Hill, "MGP" has shown a purple streak in her politics during her first three years in Congress, most recently this week when she became one of just six House Democrats to vote in favor of the Republican funding bill that reopened the government, ending a stalemate over healthcare costs that became the longest shutdown in U.S. history.

Gluesenkamp Perez quickly found herself once again at odds with her party and embroiled in a controversy when on the same day the government reopened, she to

See Full Page