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Earl Francis Blumenauer is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Oregon's 3rd congressional district since 1996. A member of the Democratic Party, Blumenauer has been a prominent advocate for environmental issues and urban development. He has played a significant role in legislation related to transportation, health care, and social justice, often emphasizing the importance of local community input in federal decision-making processes.
In 2022, the world lost more than 16 million acres of forest, an area bigger than West Virginia. Deforestation accounted for about 10 percent of the world's annual greenhouse gas emissions and 40 percent of all tropical deforestation as a…
I have dedicated my career to making the Federal Government a better partner for livable communities. These are places where families are safe, healthy, and more economically secure. One of the most important tools in making a community…
As I prepare to leave office at the end of this Congress, one of my greatest disappointments has been an inability to make progress dealing with our flood insurance system and the dangerous pattern of development and infrastructure. What…
This week we are having a public media summit in our Nation's Capital, with representatives from independent television stations from across the country. Thirteen years ago, the prospects were not particularly encouraging. We had just had…
I have a strong belief in the power of international trade agreements to make a profound difference. It is not just because 95 percent of the global economy is outside the United States. These agreements are necessary to raise standards…
I urge you to reconsider your support for this legislation and address your concerns without compromising robust enforcement.
Either we continue to pursue things on a bilateral basis or take unilateral action when it comes to trade policies, or we invest in a system with other like-minded allies to address things like China's unfair trade practices.
We ought to put real resources into renegotiating and rebuilding the MFN multilateral framework, like-minded trading partners that address modern American economic challenges.
Substance, not arbitrary deadlines, should drive the outcomes at the ministerial.
I strongly support the WTO but, sadly, the limitations that have been mentioned are ones that challenge that optimism.
I urge the Biden administration to resist any efforts from our trading partners... to agree to outcomes that do not fully reflect American interests.
The second phase is really where the rubber is going to hit the road, though, because it is going to be dealing with those subsidies that are contributing to overcapacity and overfishing very directly.
The American consumer pays the highest prescription drug prices in the world.
I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, listening on the floor of the House, there are arguments that are legitimate in terms of the shortcomings of this. It is not perfect, but I don't want the perfect to be the enemy of the…
Inflation, which we were deeply concerned about, is now down to between two and three percent, very close to the Fed's target rate.
We have almost three million jobs created last year. Unemployment is at a historic low, 3.5 percent.
The GDP growth for the first three years of the Biden Administration is 3.4 percent, outpacing the first three years of the prior administration.
One of our society's greatest failures is our inability to equip and inform our families at the time of greatest stress and vulnerability: the end of life. Even though Sarah Palin lied about ``death panels,'' I am proud to have been the…
In the last 1\1/2\ years, we have seen the horrific impact of overturning the right to an abortion, and the assault continues. The Supreme Court just announced that it would be hearing a challenge to the Biden administration's policy that…
As I face the last 50 weeks as a Member of this Congress, I am appalled at the amount of time we waste on performances on things that will never become law, that shouldn't become law, and, in fact, the American public doesn't care that…
I will enter in the Record my comments that I would have made today. Mr. Speaker, I am sad and I am angry. I have been working for 50 years leading the effort to end the failed, unfair, cynical, dangerous war on drugs that targeted Black…
I think most people would agree that giving millionaires hundreds of thousands of dollars to heavily subsidize the cost of crop insurance is neither fair nor well-targeted.
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