Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.

Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.

I am maintaining my schedule of commuting to Washington, D.C. each week from Oregon so that I can spend my weekends and days when we are not in session traveling to communities throughout my district.

As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands.

Let's start and build a House that works for the people, because this is the people's House.

Many individual growers now are growing organic fruit, and many are taking it upon themselves to market their own products to the public, as opposed to necessarily going through big processors, although, obviously, the bulk of the fruit still is dealt with that way.