Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver BC join forces on DC Fly-In

This year’s annual Washington D.C. advocacy fly-in builds on the strength of the Portland-Seattle collaboration, welcoming the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade and Cascadia Innovation Corridor to the trip, making this a true Cascadia-wide delegation.

This trip facilitates building stronger relationships across the Pacific Northwest’s business leaders, elected representatives, and civic champions as we advocate together for the shared needs of the Cascadia mega-region. This annual advocacy trip serves as a catalyst for collaboration and action, helping shape the future for all three cities of the greater Cascadia region.

The Portland Metro Chamber and Seattle Metro Chamber share advocacy priorities for addressing policy and funding challenges in the two largest urban centers in the Pacific Northwest. We share these priorities with our Cascadia Innovation Corridor partner, the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade. Our top federal priorities are:

Keep commerce and people moving safely in the Pacific Northwest.
Maintain federal commitments to community health, education, parks, forests, housing, and research.
Keep our economies strong by:
- Promoting policies that expand, rather than restrict, access to global markets;
- Maintaining competitive tax rates that encourage business investment and economic growth;
- Slowing the rapid growth in the cost of living for consumers;
- Immigration reform that addresses constraints to legal immigration to address historic workforce shortages.
Increase access to affordable housing and homeless services.
Continue to address the fentanyl and opioid addiction crises.

Thank you to all the elected officials, administration representatives, and the Canadian Embassy who generously agreed to meet with us and shared their time with our delegation.

View Shared Federal Policy Agenda