They take all of our passports and disappear ... Finally they came back. They had called Washington and cleared us all again and we were able to get on the plane.

An attendance committee looked at the enrollment and Pinkham still has room while Washington is quite full.

It was almost as if the Washington Post was saying, 'So there.'

We're treading a really fine line on this, and there is a debate among people in Washington about what we should do,

Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.

federal officials assured us that Washington state is not under any credible threat.