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The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony included LTC Robert Schneider (ret.), son of Clifford G. Schneider, and his wife Claire, MG Raymond F. Rees, Congressman Blumenauer, State Senator Laurie Monnes Anderson, State Representative Greg Matthews, Gresham City Council Member David Widmark, and the family of the late National Guard Member, SSG Nathaniel B. Lindsay.
The Children's Hospital at Legacy Emanuel receives nearly 100,000 patient visits every year and over the last 100 years has become Oregon's largest provider of pediatric inpatient and truama services.
It isn't just that Republicans have been keeping their heads down: the "Ryan Roadmap" simply has not been subjected to enough critical analysis. In particular, three troubling items deserve more attention.
More than a dozen of the school's top students in the field came to learn about Congressman Blumenauer's work to strengthen environmental protections and to discuss Oregon's role as a leader in land use and environmental laws. The broad conversation ranged from questions on what more could be done to alleviate urban air quality problems, to a discussion on how to better frame the environm
PORTLAND – Yesterday, Congressman Earl Blumenauer called for three major banks with significant foreclosure cases in Oregon to institute a 60-day moratorium on new foreclosures while they review their foreclosure processes.
"We must empower the U.S. Trade Representative to hold our trading partners accountable to their own environmental regulations," said Blumenauer. "Otherwise, their companies may gain an unfair advantage by undercutting American businesses that are acting responsibly.
"Our war contracting process does too little to ensure that contractors act with the best interests of our troops and taxpayers in mind, and we're going to change that," said Blumenauer. "Companies that engage in the kind of appalling negligence that has been alleged in the KBR case should not receive a bailout in exchange for their mistakes.
Blumenauer Has Sponsored Legislation to Award Block Grants to Local Governments That Face Significant Sex Trafficking Problem