Earl Blumenauer
Earl Blumenauer
Earl Blumenaueris the U.S. Representative for Oregon's 3rd congressional district, serving since 1996. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes most of Portland east of the Willamette River. He previously spent over 20 years as a public official in Portland, including serving on the Portland City Council from 1987 to 1996...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 August 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.
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If all of a sudden once it leaves here, people have the opportunity to change it contrary to the intent of the federal sponsors, contrary to the desires of local government, I think is a very troubling precedent,
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This is legislation not drafted in the long-term interests of the people it claims to help, seniors and taxpayers. It was drafted, first and foremost, for the drug companies.
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they are going to go where they can create and live.
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The same way we were talking about the arts being part of the infrastructure,
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This bill is not an energy policy, ... It is a list of tax breaks and special interest favors that does not translate into a cohesive approach, which global realities demand for this country.
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Any community needs to plan to be able to realize their vision, ... Things that some people think are amenities ... are, in fact, part of the basic infrastructure.
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Areas which are magnets to our creative class, ... are in communities that would have been gone if the old way of thinking had taken place.
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a little scared by how fast they're doing all this stuff because I don't think there's anybody in charge.
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put the investment into transit and bike paths, into walking and buses, and allowing people to live downtown as well as just work and shop there.
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less about reform of the ESA, or to protect species, and more about making it easier for the exploitation of the environment.
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To the best of my knowledge, ... there is not city in America -- large or small -- where people who are at minimum wage can afford basic housing.
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We were taking an agency that was maybe 1 percent dealing with homeland security and 99 percent disaster, and folding it into something where it could lose focus and resources, ... And that is what's happened.
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Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.