Peter DeFazio News Archives

The FBI says four shots hit a federal courthouse in Oregon late Wednesday night or early Thursday, with three of them breaking windows in U.S. Rep.

A bill to designate 21-mile section of the Molalla River as Wild and Scenic cleared a House committee today.

The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted 20-9 in favor of H.R. 3596, the Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Act, which would partially repeal the McCarran-Ferguson Act.

Streetcars are a true test of patience. If you're in a hurry and just can't wait to get from here to there, Portlanders can tell you: This might not be your ride.

Portland's Streetcar project received word Thursday that it's good to go, financially, for the jump to the city's East side, as Federal Transportation Administrator Peter Rogoff signed off on a $75 million dollar construction grant.

The Portland Streetcar runs along Northwest Lovejoy Street in Northwest Portland.

STAFF REPORT President Barack Obama has asked Congress to approve a $250 payment this year to more than 50 million seniors to make up for the absence of a hike in Social Security next year.

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Jobs and Oregon's struggling economy were front and center Saturday as Democrats gathered for their "Summit" conference to plan for next year's election and try to maintain big gains they scored in 2008.

OR-4: Sid Leiken's campaign circles the drain October 15 was the deadline for congressional campaigns to report their fundraising totals for the three-month period from July 1 to September 30.

"? For the first time in 35 years, millions of older Americans won't be getting a fatter Social Security payment next year.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will explain Wednesday what kind of commercial logging will take place on millions of acres of federal forests in western Oregon.

Alex is the preservation associate for Environment Oregon , a statewide, citizen-based environmental advocacy organization working to protect Oregon's air, water & open places.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has announced a crop of timber sales for U.S. Bureau of Land Management lands that will help keep Oregon mills open while the Obama administration works on a long-term forest management strategy.

U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio has introduced legislation aimed at allowing timber companies to delay harvests on federal Bureau of Land Management forests until timber prices rebound.

Portland State University's Lincoln Hall is getting a modernization remodel thanks in part to federal stimulus money.

U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon's 4th Congressional District. Courtesy photo Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio says transportation planners need to scale back the scope and cost of the Columbia River Crossing for the project to attract federal funding.

After Jim Klonoski of Eugene died Jan. 30 at age 83, the former state Democratic Party chairman was honored by a resolution and a ceremony for the family during the legislative session - as many prominent Oregonians are.

Eugene eco-saboteur Jeff 'Free' Luers was freed from prison briefly Oct. 2 after becoming eligible for Oregon's new earned-time early release program for state prisoners.

John Kitzhaber and Bill Bradbury go back quite a ways. When Kitzhaber was governor, he appointed Bradbury as Oregon secretary of state when the office became vacant in 1999.

Today, rural Americans cleared the air about their position on health care reform at the "Rural Issues in Health Care Reform" congressional briefing hosted by Reps.

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Peter DeFazio were joined on Wednesday on Capitol Hill by senior citizens and other congressmen in order to support their bill, which would provide a one-time, $250 payment to more than 50 million seniors to match increasing costs of medical care and prescription drugs.

Congressman Maurice Hinchey Wednesday joined Congressman Peter DeFazio and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders in pushing for passage of the Emergency Senior Citizens Relief Act, which would provide Social Security recipients an extra one-time payment of $250 next year.

My belief that too many people don't know how their government works is challenged at times by a few faithful readers.

Lawmakers in Washington D.C. have introduced two distinct pieces of legislation to give relief to Social Security beneficiaries facing 2010 with no prospect of their accustomed cost-of-living increase .

Erik Haeber of Crystal Clear Professional Window Cleaning cleans feces off the window in front of a life-size cutout of President Barack Obama at the Douglas County Democratic headquarters in downtown Roseburg, Ore., on Tuesday, Sept.

The U.S. Forest Service has endorsed designation of a new wilderness area in an area of Oregon's Coast Range known for a remote waterfall called the Devil's Staircase.

In this July 1, 2009 file photo, U.S Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, left, speaks at the... In this July 1, 2009 file photo, U.S Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, left, speaks at the unveiling of an American-made prototype streetcar in Portland, Ore.