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Oregon Individual Race: OR-4

Incumbent:	Peter DeFazio   (D)
	Peter DeFazio has a lifetime AFL-CIO Congressional Voting record of voting right on working family issues 94 percent of the time.
	Go to Peter DeFazio’s campaign website.
Challenger(s):	Jim Feldkamp (R)
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Endorsed Candidate: Peter DeFazio

Straight Facts About Our Candidates

U.S. House of Representatives, Oregon, District 4

PETER DEFAZIO FIGHTS  FOR WORKING FAMILIES

Saves Our Jobs.
Peter DeFazio voted against sending our jobs overseas with unfair trade agreements like CAFTA and to protect federal jobs from privatization. (H.R. 3045, Vote #443, 7/28/05; H.R. 3058, Vote #357, 6/30/05)

Fights for Workers.
Peter DeFazio voted to save critical job-training programs for workers whose jobs have been shipped overseas, against weakening wage and hour protections and against taking overtime pay eligibility from millions of workers. (H.R. 27, Vote #48, 3/2/05; H. Amdt. 367, H.R. 3010, Vote #38, 6/24/05; H.R. 2660, 7/10/03)

Supports Increasing the Minimum Wage.
Peter DeFazio voted six times this year for a clean vote on increasing the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour. (Vote #308, 6/22/06; Vote #313, 6/22/06; Vote #319, 6/27/06; Vote #366, 7/12/06; Vote #424, 7/29/06; Vote #425, 7/29/06)

JIM FELDKAMP PUTS WORKING FAMILIES AT RISK

Jim Feldkamp backs policies that are against the best interests of workers and their families. He defended the fl awed Medicare prescription drug plan that benefi ts drug companies over seniors, supports privatization of Social Security and wants to make President Bush’s tax cuts permanent—which favors the wealthiest Oregonians at the expense of the middle class. (Women’s Health Law Weekly, 8/29/04; www.jimfeldkamp.com)

VOTE Nov. 7

How you vote is a personal decision. Whatever you decide, please vote.

 

 

 

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