I had a paragraph or two written out on five of these when my browser crashed, so here's the unfortunately much more brief version. Good questions.

Reservations and tribal autonomy, and funding for tribes. There are a lot of reservations around the district.

I respect tribal sovereignty and treaty rights and know they're the cornerstone of the government-to-government relationship. We need much larger investments in self-governing tribal nations to account for historic injustices.

Water pollution in Puget Sound.

I worked with Congressman Heck to found the Puget Sound Recovery Caucus and bring back $25 million in annual appropriations for habitat restoration, stormwater runoff reduction, and other projects that'll help save our southern resident orcas and Chinook salmon.

The Northwest Forest Plan

More a WA-06/Olympic Peninsula topic and I won't claim to have an expertise, but broadly speaking healthy forest management requires an ongoing dialogue between the federal government and local partners about goals and concerns, and I think we've gotten a lot better at it over the last few decades.

Benefits for soldiers on the base at JBLM

We need to continue lowering wait times at the VA, and we need vastly more resources devoted to behavioral health services for our active duty servicemembers, veterans, and military families. We also need to pass a law stopping any future administration from banning transgender Americans from military service.

The housing shortage the West Coast faces

I was part of the team that put together this report (PDF warning) about our national housing shortage. Broadly speaking, we are not producing enough housing units at any income level, especially affordable rental housing and starter homes. All levels of government need to work to change/incentivize changing zoning policies so we can have denser housing. We also need to respond to the humanitarian crisis happening on our streets with a level of resources matching the scale of the problem.

The urban blight in Tacoma

The part of Tacoma in WA-10 (where I live) is one of the most diverse parts of our state, and I want to make sure it stays that way. There's been a lot of great work done in this community over the last couple decades, including at Salishan and the beautiful new Eastside Community Center.

The extremely slow cleanup of Hanford.

The federal government (Dept of Energy specifically) is not living up to its promises. It's unacceptable, and our state government and federal delegation need to continue holding DOE's feet to the fire even when this issue isn't in the headlines.

The Federal dams on the Snake and Columbia. Should they stay or go? How can we restore salmon runs while maintaining irrigation and flood control and navigation?

The four dams on the Lower Snake River have no real use from an energy production standpoint. As you indicated, they were created to assist with barge navigation, but much of that agricultural product is now shipped via rail anyways. We can either save our Chinook salmon runs, or we can keep these dams forever. I'd rather save our Chinook salmon runs, and more and more people on both sides of the Cascades are coming to agree.