Category Archives: E-News

Dear friends and neighbors,   The 2024 legislative session has officially come to an end! During the last week, we passed our supplemental capital, operating and transportation budgets.   I’m happy to share that the capital budget funds important projects Reps. ...

Dear friends and neighbors,   Some of the most important issues before the Legislature this year are the initiatives that were submitted to us. Some of these initiatives would have a massive negative effect on the positive progress we’ve made together ...

Dear colleagues,  On the wall in my office is a framed poster from the 1950 Pendleton Roundup. Yup, I lived in Pendleton at the time. On a bright orange background, it features a cowboy on a wild bucking bronco, and ...

Dear friends and neighbors,  The Senate released its proposal this week for the state’s capital budget, which funds construction projects across the state – mostly buildings, but many other things too. This year’s supplemental budget proposal includes major funding increases ...

Dear friends and neighbors,   We are now more than halfway through the legislative session! We’ve been busy all week passing bills off the Senate floor. Bills that started in the Senate have to make it through the Senate by Tuesday ...

Dear friends and neighbors,  I’d like to remind you that my seatmates, Reps. Jessica Bateman and Beth Doglio, and I are hosting a virtual town hall tomorrow! We’d like to give you a mid-session update and learn more about the ...

Dear friends and neighbors,  Welcome to week three of the legislative session! We’ve got just about a week and a half left before our first deadline of the session—Jan. 31. That’s when policy bills will need to make it through ...

Dear friends and neighbors,   Week one of the legislative session was packed with public hearings on so many important bills.   Click the photo below to see powerful testimony on a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow voters to ...

Dear friends and neighbors,   It’s week one of the 2024 legislative session! We have A LOT of important things to accomplish in just 60 days.   Here’s what I have going on this week:   On Tuesday, in the Senate State Government ...

Dear friends and neighbors,   I’m happy to welcome my colleagues back to our district as we get ready to kick off the 2024 legislative session on Jan. 8.  During the last session we approved our biennial budgets, and this year, ...