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U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio calls it quits: Thirty-six years in Congress well spent, with a provocative book to come

Excerpt:	DeFazio, seventy-four, has served on the transportation committee from the day he entered Congress in 1987 and, in the words of Politico, accumulated an “encyclopedic amount of institutional and technical knowledge on infrastructure.”
Published at:	2:40 PM on Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
Written by:	Joel Connelly
Categories:	Elections, Public Service
Other Tags:	Retirements
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Excerpt:	Initial results in Oregon’s 2016 primary election are in, and they show that Bernie Sanders has won the Beaver State as expected, although not by a huge margin. Of Oregon’s 2,293,928 voters, 954,125 cast ballots, for a total turnout of 41%. In Oregon, voters register by party, so we can also compare turnout among voters identifying with a […]
Published at:	8:32 PM on Tuesday, May 17th, 2016
Written by:	Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:	Elections
Other Tags:	OR-01, OR-02, OR-03, OR-05, OR-Gov, OR-Leg, OR-Sen, US-Pres
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Excerpt:	As in several states on the East Coast, tonight is primary night in two of the three states in the Pacific Northwest: Oregon and Idaho. Voters belonging to or identifying with the country’s major political parties are choosing the nominees who will go on to the autumn general election as the parties’ standard bearers. In […]
Published at:	9:24 PM on Tuesday, May 20th, 2014
Written by:	Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:	Breaking News, Elections, Party Politics
Other Tags:	OR-01, OR-02, OR-03, OR-05, OR-Gov, OR-Sen
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