Earl Blumenauer

How Sarah Palin's Irresponsible Rhetoric Prevented Medicare Savings

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Dan Morhaim, Charles Boustany, Cbo, Advance Directives, Obamacare, Earl Blumenauer, Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Living Wills, Medicare, Congressional Budget Office, Politics News

The Affordable Care Act might have been able to curtail Medicare spending further if it hadn't been for Palin, who charged that a provision of the law allowing Medicare to pay for end-of-life discussions would lead to government-run "death panels."

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The Lacey Act and the Law

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Environment, Lacey Act, Logging, Fishing, Rand Paul, Lobsters, Earl Blumenauer, Green News

Two days ago, I pointed out Senator Rand Paul mislead the public regarding the arrest of two men for violating the Lacey Act by illegally harvesting lobsters. Senator Paul responded and implied that it was I, in fact, who was misleading the public.

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Rep. Earl Blumenauer Needs to Brush Up on His Legal Research Skills

Sen. Rand Paul | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Lacey Act, House Natural Resources Committee, Earl Blumenauer, 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, Politics News

I was disappointed to read Rep. Blumenauer's piece on this site titled "Truth Takes A Back Seat in Lacey Act Hearing." In that piece, Rep. Blumenauer called me a liar and proceeded to set forth a series of unsubstantiated claims.

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Truth Takes a Back Seat in Lacey Act Hearing

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Environment, Lacey Act, Logging, Rand Paul, Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), Earl Blumenauer, Oregon, Rand Paul Kentucky Senate, The Lacey Act, Green News

The Lacey Act is common sense legislation that protects American workers and industries from illegally harvested or exported materials.

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Fixing Our Broken Government: Ending Corporate Personhood

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Corporate Personhood, Citizens United, Super PACs, Earl Blumenauer, Campaign Finance, Video, Politics News

Mitt Romney may believe that corporations are people, but do the rest of us need a comedian like Stephen Colbert to remind us that only people are people?

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NOH8 On The Hill: 10 Members Of Congress Pose For Marriage Equality (PHOTOS)

Laurence Watts | Posted 04.23.2012

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House GOP Takes Aim At Safe Routes To School, Mass Transit

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Bike Paths, Tom Petri, Video, Mass Transit, House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, Safe Routes to Schools, Earl Blumenauer, John Mica, Charlie Rangel, Politics News

Two House committees voted on Thursday and Friday to eliminate federal funding for a program that creates bicycle and pedestrian paths for children go...

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Safe Drinking Water: Giving Life, Health, and Hope

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Clean Water, Foreign Aid, US Congress, World Health, Earl Blumenauer, Water, Sanitation, Video, Politics News

As America prepares for the holiday season, I hope that Congress will give a gift of life, health and hope by helping people around the world with something that most Americans take for granted: safe drinking water.

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Support the Traditional Definition of Vegetables!

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Department of Agriculture, Diet and Nutrition, Pizza, Industrial Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, Nutrition, Earl Blumenauer, Video, Politics News

Forget the "dangers" of same-sex marriage. There is a much greater threat to traditional American values: the creeping danger posed by re-defining pizza and french fries as "vegetables" in our school lunch program.

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Congress Says Pizza and French Fries Are Vegetables!

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Farm Bill, Food, Childhood Nutrition, 2012 Farm Bill, Nutrition, Earl Blumenauer, Politics News

Like many of you, when I heard that Congress decided that pizza is a vegetable, I thought it had to be a headline from The Onion.

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Thomas' Wife Made $1.6 Million During Years He Reported No Income

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Ginny Thomas, Supreme Court, Video, Earl Blumenauer, Ethics, Supreme Court Ethics, Louise Slaughter, Clarence Thomas Investigation, Louise Slaughter Clarence Thomas, Clarence Thomas Ethics, Clarence Thomas Wife, Clarence Thomas, Ethics Violation, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats are ratcheting up the pressure for a formal investigation into Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for failing to disc...

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Unions Are (Not!) Destroying America

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Nlrb, Collective Bargaining, Labor Unions, Unions, Earl Blumenauer, Anti-Union, Gop Anti Union, Politics News

It is unfortunate that we are seeing an attempt in Congress to scapegoat America's unions for the economic problems that beset us.

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Dems' Oil Subsidy Repeal Push Puts GOP On Defensive

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 06.27.2011

Read More: Oil and Gas Subsidies, Gas Prices, Oil Industry, John Boehner, Earl Blumenauer, President Obama, Elections 2012, Harry Reid, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Democrats are gleefully charging ahead with a proposal to end multi-billion-dollar oil and gas subsidies, seeing an opportunity to redir...

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White House, Dems Tell GOP Not To Play Politics With Debt Ceiling

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 06.11.2011

WASHINGTON -- The White House and Congressional Democrats are urging House Republicans to support a "clean" bill to raise the nation's debt ceiling ra...

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Giving Witch Hunting a Bad Name

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Aarp, Wally Herger, Earl Blumenauer, Dave Reichert, AARP Health Care Reform, Politics News

Sometimes legislative hearings are long and boring. Sometimes they are excruciating. Yet rarely are they embarrassing.

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WATCH: Anthony Weiner Mocks House Defunding Of NPR

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Npr, Public Broadcasting Caucus, National Public Radio, Congress 2012, Budget Cuts, Car Talk, Click and Clack, Earl Blumenauer, Budget, Anothony Weiner, Rep. Anthony Weiner, Video, NPR Funding, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) wants everyone to know what his GOP colleagues have done to avert financial crisis. After the House voted on Thu...

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Leverage

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earl Blumenauer, Bush Tax Cuts, Deficit Comission, Obama Tax Cuts, Unemployment Extension, Unemployment Benefits, Obama Taxes, Politics News

By refusing to stare down Republicans on issues that are supported by the American people like assistance for the unemployed and not extending tax cuts for the most well off, the president is losing his leverage.

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A Letter to My Children

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Debt, Politics, Earl Blumenauer, Politics News

As you prepare to start new phases of your careers and perhaps think about the grandchildren I hope to someday have, instead of extending the tax cuts, I would offer the following birthday gift-list for you and your generation.

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Blue America: Down the Home Stretch

Howie Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dccc, Billy Kennedy, 2010 Congressional Races, Blue America, Earl Blumenauer, Bobby Bright, Justin Coussoule, Politics News

You may have read about Blue America's radio buy in Bobby Bright's Alabama district earlier in the week. Congressman Bright didn't like the idea of ...

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Joyride: Bicycling Our Way to Safe and Splendid Communities

Diane Dulken | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Portland Oregon, Bicycle Culture, Bicycling, Fossil Fuels, Great Recession, Health, Earl Blumenauer, Nashville, New York, Green News

Let's make our communities healthy places with freedom to move in a landscape that is not polluted and congested but alive with activity and beauty.

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Simpson's 'Tits' Are the Least of It

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matt Bai, Treasury Department, Social Security, Alan Simpson, Earl Blumenauer, Nyt, Politics News

Social Security is in surplus until 2037. Yet the idea that the road to recovery leads through cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and other social outlays that are keeping the depression from worsening, if anything, is gaining traction among opinion elites.

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A Clarification

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earl Blumenauer, Matt Mai, Social Security, Politics News

While I appreciate Matt Bai's article in The New York Times focusing on my commitment to cut wasteful government spending, such as military and agricu...

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July 4th: Hope and Freedom in America

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fourth of July, Earl Blumenauer, Medicare, Health Care, July 4th, Politics News

Here's what I'm celebrating on Sunday: More freedom and independence for Americans from a non-health care system, from economic exploitation, and the stranglehold of big oil, and hope for the planet.

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'Death Panels' Debate Returns To Congress: Congressman Building Support For Proposal

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earl Blumenauer, Death Panels, Death Panels Palin, Sarah Palin, Politics News

The House health care provision that Sarah Palin warned would lead to "death panels" never made it into the final bill, but its backers plan to resusc...

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50 Days of BP on World Oceans Day

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World Oceans Day, BP Oil Spill, Earl Blumenauer, Lisa Murkowski, Bp, Our Oceans, Renewable Energy, Climate Legislation, Clean Energy, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Green News

We must redouble our efforts for energy that will not spill into the oceans or threaten human health. We must succeed so that the next World Oceans Day becomes a day for celebration.

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