[...]
edited by: Mike Landfair,
Oregon Editor
WASHINGTON -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities said President Bush's proposed budget would result in steep cuts to education, environmental protection, law enforcement and other domestic programs.
The socially liberal think tank analyzed Bush's budget proposal, which was released earlier this month and aims to balance the budget [...]
WASHINGTON - The House on Friday passed a non-binding resolution opposing President Bush's plans to send additional troops to Iraq in a 246-182 vote.
Oregon's five House members voted along party lines, with Democrats Earl Blumenauer, Peter DeFazio, Darlene Hooley and David Wu voting in favor of the resolution and Republican [...]
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., will support a vote on a nonbinding resolution to oppose sending more troops to Iraq.
Last week, Smith joined all but two other Republicans in voting against cloture - the procedure necessary to bring a resolution to an up-or-down vote. Sixty senators must support cloture [...]
WASHINGTON -- The national Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee will begin running an newspaper advertisement in Oregon Friday criticizing Sen. Gordon Smith's recent vote on Iraq.
Last week, Smith joined all but two Republicans in voting against bringing to a vote a non-binding resolution opposing President Bush's plans to increase troops [...]
Oregon may join other states with its own resolution on the controversial Real ID Act, which requires states to revamp the way they issue drivers licenses.
House Speaker Jeff Merkley, D-Portland, said his chamber "plans to send a resolution to Congress adding our voice to the chorus of concerns being [...]
Minority Republican legislators unveiled a package of House bills on Friday aimed at curbing illegal immigration -- and put the heat on Democrats to keep their campaign promises to get tough on the topic.
About 100 people showed up for a rally on the Capitol steps, many waving signs [...]
One in six Oregonians has no health insurance, a rate that held steady for the past two years according to new state figures released today.
The latest survey, conducted in late 2006, shows that 576,000 Oregonians -- 15.6 percent of the population -- lack health insurance. That compares with 17 [...]
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Gordon Smith raised nearly a quarter-million dollars in the last quarter of 2006, according to his most recent report with the Federal Election Commission.
Although donors were focused on last year's mid-term congressional elections for part of the quarter, he still managed to raise $226,398 in net contributions [...]
Gov. Ted Kulongoski has appointed former Portland mayoral candidate Jim Francesconi to the state Board of Higher Education.
Francesconi, 54, replaces Tim Nesbitt, who will resign as soon as the Senate confirms Francesconi's nomination. Nesbitt, a former union leader, became Kulongoski's deputy chief of staff shortly after the governor won [...]
With one poorly drafted rule, the Oregon House last month banned itself from voting on any bills until March 5.
As that would lead to a nightmarish backlog -- and plenty of unproductive floor sessions -- House Speaker Jeff Merkley, D-Portland, has proposed tweaking its internal rules to allow [...]
WASHINGTON -- Northwest public power advocates are buzzing about whether President Bush will propose changes to the Bonneville Power Administration when he releases his budget proposal Monday.
Bush has not announced any plans and likely will not before Monday's budget release, and his budget office did not return calls. But if [...]
WASHINGTON -- Oregon's five U.S. House members aren't up for re-election for nearly two years, but they started out this year with campaign accounts worth a total of more than $1.3 million.
Year-end campaign finance reports were due to the Federal Election Commission Wednesday night.
"My name is John Weigant," the man from Gresham said. "I'm a towing victim."
And that's how the public hearing began this afternoon in the Senate Commerce Committee, where members listened to testimony on several bills that would restrict tow companies and how they operate on private property.
About a [...]
