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Oregon’s Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, Governor Kate Brown and Representatives Earl Blumenauer and Suzanne Bonamici released the following statement today calling for a temporary halt to oil train traffic in Columbia River Gorge in light of last Friday’s derailment of a Union Pacific oil train in Mosier, OR.

Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici, a member of the House Education Committee, urged Congressional leaders to protect students after reports that students were exposed to lead at some schools in the Portland Public School district.

Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici issued the following statement after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a draft rule to protect consumers from predatory lending practices and crack down on some of the worst abuses in the industry.