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Greg Walden is a former U.S. Representative from Oregon, serving in the House from 1999 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Oregon's 2nd congressional district. During his tenure, Walden was known for his work on issues related to healthcare, telecommunications, and energy policy. He played a significant role in the passage of the 21st Century Cures Act, which aimed to accelerate medical product development and bring new innovations to patients more quickly.
I am dismayed that my colleague from Portland has chosen to attack farming the Klamath Basin with this reckless and harmful amendment. By doing so, we are kicking the very farmers in the stomach just when they have been begun to recover…
if we think about this, nobody has fought harder for Patients' Bill of Rights in this country than the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Norwood), the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Ganske), and the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Fletcher). They are…
it is not the first time I have come to the well to address the House and my colleagues about the terrible plight of the people of the Klamath Basin in Oregon and northern California. Mr. Speaker, as my colleagues know, on April 6 of last…
I thank my colleagues for having this Special Order. When Jennifer Brennan was pregnant with her first child, her husband, Thomas M. Brennan, would play Grateful Dead tapes loudly, hoping the music would reach the ears of the unborn…
H.R. 2828 gives hope to those people whose livelihoods face ruin as a result of the Interior Department's decision to shut off water to some 1,200 farm families of the Klamath Basin for the first time in the nearly 100-year history of the…
H.R. 1776, introduced by my friend the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Green), authorizes the Secretary of Interior to complete a study on the suitability and feasibility of establishing the Buffalo Bayou National Heritage Site in Houston…
Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2585 is another of my bills that will address the current plight of fish and farmers in the Klamath Basin. The Klamath Basin is in both southern Oregon and northern California, and has Endangered Species Act-listed…
I had not visited this dam until a year or so ago, and at that point I invited the Modoc Point Irrigation District directors and the tribal leaders from there to both join me at the site of this dam. As we approached the dam, walked down…
on April 12 of 2000, the Warm Springs Tribe, Portland General Electric Company, and the Department of the Interior as the Tribe's trustee entered into an agreement for the Tribe to buy one-third or more of the 440-megawatt Pelton…
I rise tonight to again talk about the saga of the Klamath Basin and the farmers who have lived there and tilled the ground and fed the Nation. As my colleagues know, Mr. Speaker, on April 6, they cut off the water. They said, no water for…
I rise tonight to address my colleagues in this House about the incredible travesty that is occurring in the Klamath Basin in Oregon. What I will do tonight is talk about the background of the Klamath Project, which also includes the…
Mr. Chairman, first I want to thank the chairman of the full committee for his assistance and that of the administration for providing upwards of $20 million in disaster relief in this supplemental for the people, the ranchers of Klamath…
I send my best wishes and congratulations to Republic of China President Chen Shui-bian and his people on the occasion of their 89th National Day.
Brent Scowcroft, U.S. Air Force lieutenant general, retired, and former National Security Adviser, said of this vote, ``Denying permanent normal trade relations will remove none of the blemishes that China's opponents have identified.''…
I just have to make a comment as well about the concept of these Federal lands being so productive to employment. The gentleman who went to the university, as I recall, as apparently been a long time going back through eastern Oregon and…
first of all, let me say this does not apply to Washington, so the gentleman's implication that it applies to Washington is inaccurate. It applies to 5 States: Alaska, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Nevada. We are not talking about something…
our amendment is as simple as it is fair and logical. It simply says that if the Federal Government already owns more than one-half of our State, then before it can buy any more private land in that State, the State will have an…
I rise today first to declare a conflict of interest. I am a community radio broadcast station owner and operator and have been for 14 years. My father started in this business in the late 1930s. There has never been more diversity on the…
I rise today with profound sadness to honor the short, yet exceptional life of Lance Corporal Seth G. Jones, who perished last Saturday, along with 18 fellow Marines, in an aircraft crash near Marana, Arizona. Madam Speaker, Lance Corporal…
my purpose in rising this afternoon is threefold. I would like to share with my colleagues a story that is virtually unparalleled in illustrating the difficulty many military retirees face in the effort to have their government fulfill its…
last weekend I had the great fortune of visiting with the ranchers and individual citizens who live on and around Steens Mountain in Harney County. I traveled many miles over a majestic loop road that takes in the magnificent views of the…
the point here is that we have many problems in my district in terms of predators devouring livestock. This program is helpful to that as part of the bigger package that combines State and local funds to deal with it. Sometimes it is one…
the federal government must be held accountable for the damage its land management policies have caused rural counties.
the prevalence of federal land that is closed to economic activity has created a serious problem for many counties in Oregon and elsewhere in the West.
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