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Val Anne Hoyle is an American politician currently serving as the U.S. Representative for Oregon's 4th congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party, she was elected to Congress in 2022. Prior to her election to the U.S. House, Hoyle served in the Oregon House of Representatives, where she focused on issues such as education, healthcare, and economic development. Her legislative work has emphasized support for working families and environmental sustainability.
I think the first part is also that we have difficulty recruiting CDL drivers everywhere, but in rural communities, where they are driving buses and they are driving trucks, it is really difficult because the infrastructure is crumbling.
We have an extreme backlog of infrastructure investments. For instance, in two of the six counties that I represent, Lane and Douglas County, each one of which is about the size of Connecticut, we have 700 bridges, the vast majority of…
My colleague, Mr. Duarte, has put forward H.R. 7157, the Strengthen Wood Product Supply Chains Act, which claims to improve the Lacey Act for importers by instituting very ambitious enforcement timelines for Fish and Wildlife services.
I believe this bill would create an unfair playing field for our U.S. timber producers, many of whom are in my district.
I thank my colleagues from Arkansas and Louisiana, who represent great States to go hunting in if you can't make it all the way out to Oregon. I welcome you all there. Mr. Speaker, this is a good bill, and it should pass. I urge my…
I do support salmon recovery in the Columbia River Basin. I also recognize the need for affordable, reliable, clean energy.
The bipartisan CCC Enhancement Act introduced in the House by Representatives Salinas, Edwards, Guthrie, and Hoyle...
We need to invest in new markets to help get low-value biomass out of the woods and reduce wildfire risk.
I am really glad to be here as we discuss bills on forest management, wildfire, and related workforce issues.
I believe what you are referring to is Davis-Bacon prevailing wage, among other things.
When the U.S. auto manufacturers were suffering during the recession, the UAW workers took pay cuts, were willing to forgo pay raises for the greater good of U.S. manufacturing, believing that U.S. auto manufacturers would repay their…
I represent Oregon's 4th Congressional District, and the BLM manages 2.1 million acres of O&C lands in Western Oregon.
I would like to know if you could put that in writing in this rule that, in the case of inconsistencies of FLPMA and the O&C Land Act, that the O&C Land Act will prevail.
I am confused about why the BLM's public land rule does not mention the O&C lands.
This is my first bill that I am bringing up. And I couldn't be more proud to hopefully have this become the first law that I have sponsored, because this is a long time coming.
I really, genuinely hope we can move this through. We will have a great celebration when that happens.
The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians should be able to hunt, fish, and gather on their ancestral lands just like almost all the other tribes in Oregon and across the county.
This bill would recognize and require that HHS confer directly with the urban Indian organizations about health care policies and initiatives that impact urban American Indians and Alaska Natives, just as IHS does.
I couldn't be more proud to hopefully have this become the first law that I have sponsored, because this is a long time coming.
H.R. 2839 will go a long way toward finally healing those wounds after 43 years.
Our Restoration Act in 1977 was supposed to make us whole again, righting the terrible wrongs of termination.
H.R. 2839 is about fairness. Siletz Tribal members should be able to hunt, fish, trap, and gather like they have traditionally done for thousands of years.
The Siletz Tribe was stripped of their land and status in 1954 through the Western Oregon Termination Act.
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