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Schrader Announces Town Hall with State Senator Devlin in West Linn

Congressman Kurt Schrader (D-OR) today announced that he will hold a town hall event in West Linn where he will be joined by Oregon State Senator Richard Devlin (D-Tualatin). Schrader will discuss the...

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Proposal would create thousands of jobs, provide stable funding to O&C counties
Environment and Climate Change, Forestry & Natural Resources
SCHRADER-DEFAZIO-WALDEN O&C PLAN TAKES MAJOR STEP FORWARD

Today, the House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to discuss a bipartisan legislative proposal from Representatives Kurt Schrader (D-Canby), Peter DeFazio (D-Springfield), and Greg Walden (R...

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Environment and Climate Change, Forestry & Natural Resources
Schrader Testifies in House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Bipartisan O&C Proposal

Congressman Kurt Schrader (D-OR) today testified in front of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation regarding the bipartisan O&C Trust, Conservation, and...

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Schrader Statement on Passing of Lynn Lundquist

Congressman Kurt Schrader (D-OR) today released the following statement after the passing of former Oregon House Speaker and Oregon Business Association leader Lynn Lundquist: “I have very fond memori...

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Education
Schrader Joins Colleagues to Prevent Doubling of Student Loan Interest Rates

Congressman Kurt Schrader (D-OR) today cosponsored legislation to prevent the doubling of the student loan interest rate for undergraduate students with Federal subsidized Stafford loans. Under curren...

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Forestry & Natural Resources
Reps. Schrader, Herrera Beutler Applaud Supreme Court Ruling on “Forest Roads”

Representatives Kurt Schrader (D-OR) and Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) today applauded the United States Supreme Court’s overturning an earlier Ninth Circuit Court decision to upend more than 35 years...

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Schrader Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Amendment Passes Unanimously
Budget, Deficit Reduction & Fiscal Reform
Schrader Votes Against Ryan Budget In House Budget Committee Mark-up

Congressman Kurt Schrader (D-OR) today called on the House Budget Committee to take a balanced, bipartisan approach to solving the ongoing fiscal crisis during mark-up of the House Republican 2014 bud...

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Schrader Applauds House Passage of Bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization

Congressman Kurt Schrader today applauded House passage of a bipartisan Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Reauthorization. “This long sought reauthorization of VAWA brings with it critical and necess...

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Schrader Statement on President Obama's State of the Union Address

Tonight, Congressman Kurt Schrader (D-OR) released the following statement in response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address: “I was pleased that the President’s speech led with the need to...

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Schrader Statement on Senate Passage of the Violence Against Women Act

Congressman Kurt Schrader today called upon the House Republican leadership to quickly bring up and pass the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Reauthorization passed by the U.S. Senate tod...

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