Peter DeFazio
Peter DeFazio
Peter Anthony DeFaziois the U.S. Representative for Oregon's 4th congressional district, serving since 1987. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes Eugene, Springfield, Roseburg and part of Corvallis. As Oregon's most senior member of Congress, he is the dean of Oregon's House of Representatives delegation. A native of Massachusetts and a veteran of the United States Air Force Reserves, he previously served as a county commissioner in Lane County, Oregon...
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The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.
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A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.
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The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.
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The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.
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It would have given him authority to do anything he wanted, anytime, anywhere.
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easily concealed, easily smuggled, very inexpensive. And we've got to get ahead of this. We've got to do what we can to prevent their acquisition and usage.
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We're using 1970s technology -- it's not very good at finding bombs,
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I would just cancel the mission to Mars, ... I don't think we should pay a trillion dollars to go to Mars, as the president is proposing.
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I won't be flying out of Sioux Falls, ... Before 9-11, screeners had trouble in tests detecting fully assembled large caliber handguns and today that's not a problem.
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Given the large size of the illegal harvest, the relatively clear boundary (a steep ridgeline and road) ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight,
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If they (airports) want to bring in the private vendors, I think they need to provide their own insurance,
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We're looking at another kind of disaster to counties and schools across the country if this legislation isn't reauthorized,
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To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq has been neutralized.
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First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.