By Erik Fernandez of Portland, Oregon. Erik is the wilderness coordinator for Oregon Wild.
Congressman Kurt Schrader showed he knows how to get the job done in Washington DC by moving legislation at warp speed through the US House of Representatives.
Yesterday, the [...]
In Oregon, we can be proud that all four of our Democratic members of the U.S. House voted for the health care reform bill - and against the terrible, awful, no-good, very bad Stupak amendment. There are only eight other states with a similar 100% record among their [...]
The Oregon delegation votes:
Yes: Blumenauer, DeFazio, Schrader, and Wu.
No: Walden
(Flip those around, and you've got their votes for the odious Stupak Amendment earlier today.)
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As the US House of Representatives draws closer to a vote on HR3962, the House version of the health care reform bill, Representative Kurt Schrader has announced he will vote in favor of the bill. Schrader explained his decision in a statement on his website:
Today Congressman Kurt Schrader (D-OR) announced [...]
While callers were getting through to DeFazio's, Wu's, and Blumenauer's offices in DC' [...]
It's hard to get truly excited about the fair-to-middlin' health care reform package now pending final debate and a vote later today, because it really stood just a few cruel Blue Dog votes away from producing an ironically cheaper (and more effective) bill they couldn't support. Kurt Schrader in the [...]
Update 1:00PM: David at HorsesAss has some interesting commentary on this as well.
Update: 11:15AM: It would appear that even though the main office line isn't being answered, the internal staff lines are. Rep. Schrader's Legislative Director is Chris Huckleberry. His office number is [redacted -editor. Main number is 202-225-5711.]. [...]
At the risk of repeating myself, despite having signed on to a letter pushing for the public option, Oregon Congressman Kurt Schrader is apparently undecided on whether he will vote for a public option (with negotiated rates) if it goes to the floor. This is the compromise bill [...]
well, thanks to a quick return of my voicemail, we can correct this erroneous story forthwith: according to Schrader spokesman James Atkin, the story I just reported is NOT accurate, and in fact the opposite is true; Schrader opposes Med +5 in favor of a negotiated rates option that [...]
Are you in to encouraging Congressman Kurt Schrader to vote for the robust public option? Do you just want to find out exactly what he DOES support? Or maybe you already think he's the bomb on health care and want to give him a verbal high-five....
Congressman Schrader Tweets:
Despite having signed on to a letter pushing for the public option, Oregon Congressman Kurt Schrader is apparently undecided on whether he will vote for a robust public option (Medicare + 5%) if it goes to the floor.
This is where the rubber [...]
