Rep. Joe Schmick's News & Media

At the end of the 2026 legislative session, 9th Legislative District Reps. Joe Schmick, R-Colfax, and Mary Dye, R-Pomeroy, sent out this hard copy mailer to local residents:

Rep. Joe Schmick, R-Colfax, and Rep. Mary Dye, R-Pomeroy, issued the following statement today after Democrats in the Washington State House of Representatives passed an income tax on high earners after...

‘This season will be remembered for the championship. But it will also be remembered for the way an entire community came together. That’s something special, and it’s worth recognizing,’ says Schmick...

Kinyon Gable, a sophomore at University High School in Spokane Valley, recently served as a legislative page in the Washington State House of Representatives. She was sponsored by Rep. Joe Schmick,...

In Washington state, we have long understood something simple yet important: if you don’t like your elected sheriff, you can vote them out. If they commit misconduct, there is a constitutional...

Washington’s Constitution gives citizens an important tool: the power to bring ideas directly to the Legislature through the initiative process. That process exists for a simple reason. When people feel unheard,...

Legislation sponsored by Joe Schmick, R-Colfax, that helps rural and critical access hospitals safely move critically ill patients between facilities passed the Washington State House of Representatives today with bipartisan support....