A Letter to My Children

Rep Earl Blumenauer

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Wednesday December 01, 2010 · 3:17 PM PST

2010/12/01 · 15:17

This is a birthday message I sent to my children following a Thanksgiving conversation about the tax cut dynamics.

Rep Earl Blumenauer

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Friday August 27, 2010 · 10:10 AM PDT

2010/08/27 · 10:10

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 agricultural subsidies, I would like to point out one area where I take modest exception to how my comments have been interpreted in this story.

Rep Earl Blumenauer

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Friday December 04, 2009 · 11:00 AM PST

2009/12/04 · 11:00

Senators who are filibustering and throwing sand in the gears to delay health care reform desperately need a reality check. It is ironic to me that members of Congress enjoy some of the best health insurance in the world through our government-administered health care, and yet so many are working overtime to deny quality care to Americans – using scare tactics to claim the "government is going to take over their health care."

Well, for those Representatives and Senators who are so terrified of a government take-over, I say to them NO access to government run programs for you.

Rep Earl Blumenauer

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Thursday November 20, 2008 · 11:53 AM PST

2008/11/20 · 11:53

Although the inner workings of the Democratic Caucus deliberations on Henry Waxman’s challenge to John Dingell for the Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee were off limits to staff and the media, I can report that these discussions were powerful, pointed, and poignant.

Rep Earl Blumenauer

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Monday July 14, 2008 · 12:04 PM PDT

2008/07/14 · 12:04

Before even leaving office, the Bush administration record and legacy is clear. It will go down in history as one of the most inept administrations in the history of the United States.

The list of failures and abuses is mind boggling: the reckless rush to an unnecessary war against Iraq, the bumbling, tragic consequences surrounding the response to Hurricane Katrina and an energy policy that has set back both the environment and our economy.

Perhaps the greatest calamity and scandal is the policy failure to deal with the energy crisis and threat of global warming.

Rep Earl Blumenauer

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Wednesday October 17, 2007 · 9:24 AM PDT

2007/10/17 · 09:24

For anyone still questioning whether this President is the beacon of compassionate conservatism he claims to be, look no further than his veto of SCHIP. Vetoing a popular children’s health insurance program on the merits of fiscal conservatism is a new low even for our misguided President.

Tomorrow's vote marks the culmination of the most disingenuous and deliberately misleading debate I have ever witnessed. The partisan, deceptive talking points from the Bush White House have been parroted on Capitol Hill by extremist Republicans. Their message points have been disputed not only by independent experts, but by dozens of sensible Republicans, including Senators Grassley, Roberts and Hatch, some of the most respected members of the Senate.

Rep Earl Blumenauer

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Thursday July 12, 2007 · 11:05 AM PDT

2007/07/12 · 11:05

Many of you have been following the Farm Bill as it has slowly moved its way through Congress. Hopefully some of you have also been reading my posts laying out a vision for reforming federal food and farm policy. And today, you’ll have an opportunity to hear about the farm bill – and let us hear from you, as well.

This afternoon I am hosting a program on farm bill reform along with Congressman Ron Kind and Ken Cook, President of the Environmental Working Group. You can listen in live through Blog Talk Radio by clicking this link. You can send in your questions before hand by emailing me at BlumenauerOnAir@mail.house.gov or sending me an instant message using AIM to EarlOnAir.

Who: Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR);
Congressman Ron Kind (D-WI);
Ken Cook, President, Environmental Working Group
Where: Live on Blog Talk Radio
When: Today, Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 2:30 PM Eastern/11:30 AM Pacific

Rep Earl Blumenauer

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Monday July 09, 2007 · 11:02 AM PDT

2007/07/09 · 11:02

On the Fourth of July, The New York Times wrote a couple of paragraphs on the efforts to reform federal food and farm policy that I think sum up the fight really well.

Mary Kay Thatcher, a policy specialist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, the largest farm lobbying group, said current subsidies, which the federation supports, might be tweaked, but added, "I think it is highly unlikely that we will see huge changes."

That may depend on whether the new activists can counteract the power of lobbyists.

This, in essence, is a large part of what this battle is all about: the people versus the entrenched special interests. And it is exactly why your action is so needed today.

Rep Earl Blumenauer

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Monday July 02, 2007 · 4:15 PM PDT

2007/07/02 · 16:15

To say I’m disappointed with the President’s decision to commute Scooter Libby’s felony prison sentence is an understatement.

Rep Earl Blumenauer

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Thursday June 14, 2007 · 1:29 PM PDT

2007/06/14 · 13:29

As many of you know from a recent post by mcjoan or from the BlogAds that have been running on a number of sites (including this one), last week I laid out a Food and Farm Bill of Rights – a set of ten principles of reform I believe we in Congress should adhere to as we take up this year’s Farm Bill.

The cause of reform takes a large step forward this week with the introduction of FARM 21 – The Food & Agriculture Risk Management for the 21st Century Act. I am an original cosponsor of this bipartisan piece of legislation, which was introduced by U.S. Reps. Ron Kind (D-WI) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ).

FARM 21 is consistent with the spirit of the Food and Farm Bill of Rights. If enacted into law, it would move America away from the type of special interest politics that have guided the subsidy system in the current Farm Bill towards a system that helps promote sustainable agricultural policies that allow small family farmers to continue working their land. In this way it supports all farmers, not just the few in a few states who are most served by the current agriculture policy.

Rep Earl Blumenauer

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Friday June 01, 2007 · 7:58 AM PDT

2007/06/01 · 07:58

I flew into Greenland a few days ago with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and some of my colleagues on the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming; with me was the most recent copy of National Geographic. I glanced at the title of the cover story on global warming, "The Big Thaw" and looked, fascinated, out the window, knowing the vast Greenland Ice Sheet below is rapidly melting. A few hours later, I was sitting in a boat in the harbor in Ilulissat, looking at a massive glacier – 54 cubic miles of ice -- that is moving to the sea at twice the rate it was just 10 years ago. Global warming is real; I could see it happen before me.

Rep Earl Blumenauer

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Thursday May 10, 2007 · 5:39 AM PDT

2007/05/10 · 05:39

Having made the decision to begin a war of choice in Iraq, we have a particular responsibility to Iraqis whose only crime has been working with Americans.

Four years after the fall of Baghdad, as many of my worst fears have come to pass, Iraq has become the fastest growing refugee population in the world. The United States has a responsibility to protect the innocent victims of mass violence wherever it can – particularly in areas where suffering is a result of America's actions.

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