Michael Baumgartner
Republican · WA House - District 05 MIXED RECORDOutside AI PAC Money: $0
Position on Hyperscale Data Centers
Incumbent is BAUMGARTNER (not Cathy McMorris Rodgers - do not card CMR; check for a stale CMR card before building WA-05). Introduced H.R.9419 Power and Water for Families Act. At the Oct 5 OPB/NWPB forum (Walla Walla): no community should have a data center forced on it and it is appropriate that communities take a pause - local-control framing, not a federal moratorium call. Flip-flop data point: earlier introduced, later withdrew, a bill to keep lawsuits from slowing data-center environmental reviews.
Verified Quotes & Evidence
"No data center should be forced on a local community. And if a massive new data center needs new power plants, transmission lines, grid upgrades, or water infrastructure, it should pay its own way."
Date: 2026
→ Source: U.S. House Official Release