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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.
For the first time in over a dozen years, an unusual legislative procedure--a discharge petition--has been successfully mounted in the House. This is an extraordinary effort to allow the House to work its will--a mechanism that was part of…
Today, I will vote against H.R. 3762, the Restoring American's Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act. This legislation is not a serious effort at deficit reduction. Rather it is an assault on the American public by gutting the Affordable…
Today, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will consider a surface transportation reauthorization. Unfortunately, calling it a ``reauthorization'' doesn't make it so. This legislation calls for a 6-year period of…
Advocates from the new emerging marijuana industry in Oregon are descending on Capitol Hill at a very critical time for this fledgling industry. They have a report about the implementation of Oregon's Ballot Measure 91--overwhelmingly…
There are simple, commonsense solutions, by the way, that are supported by the U.S. Chamber and the AFL-CIO, truckers and AAA, business, government, to be able to get the country moving again, to repair crumbling infrastructure, and not…
Thank you. Madam Speaker, I am listening to my friend from Louisiana rewrite history. It is not the President who is threatening to default on the national debt. It is the Republican Congress that is refusing to do what was granted to…
To close just by saying, again, I express my appreciation to the chairman and to Mr. Smith for moving this forward. We find that the evaluations of the PACE program have proven that participants experience better health outcomes, fewer…
Today, I will vote against H.R. 10, which would continue a flawed program that pursues a partisan ideology at the expense of a child's quality education. This bill would reauthorize Washington, D.C.'s private school voucher program, the…
This is ill-advised legislation. My friends on the other side of the aisle claim 800,000 jobs, a million jobs. They don't have any real defined ability to provide such an estimate. Actually, this is a number that is made up because, as…
We take to the floor to deal with the daily reminders of turmoil around the world: the unrest in the Middle East, especially in Syria and ISIS; the sad reality of an unending string of events regarding gun violence. There is a certain…
Last Thursday another horrific episode of gun violence--the seemingly unrelenting stream of tragedy and horror--only this time it was visited on Oregon, in a modest mill town of Roseburg. The scene of the carnage was a picturesque, some…
Today I will vote against H.R. 1735, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 because it is a budget gimmick, shamelessly hiding behind the guise of national security. Make no mistake--America would be less safe were…
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