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10 things to know about Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio as he leaves office
After 36 years, Oregon is saying goodbye to its longest-serving House member, Rep. Peter DeFazio. The congressman, who represents Oregon’s Fourth Congressional District, announced last year that he would not seek reelection after his current term ends.
“It’s time for me to pass the baton to the next generation so I can focus on my health and well-being," DeFazio said in a statement announcing his retirement. "This was a tough decision at a challenging time for our republic with the very pillars of our democracy under threat, but I am bolstered by the passion and principles of my colleagues in Congress and the ingenuity and determination of young Americans who are civically engaged and working for change."
During his time in office, DeFazio focused on transportation and infrastructure, environmental issues, veterans issues, and education among other issues affecting southwestern Oregon, leaving behind a l
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DEFAZIO, Peter Anthony
DEFAZIO, Peter Anthony, A Representative from Oregon; born in Needham, Norfolk County, Mass., May 27, ; graduated from Needham High School, Needham, Mass., ; B.A., Tufts University, Medford, Mass., ; M.A., University of Oregon, Eugene, Oreg., ; United States Air Force Reserve, ; staff, United States Representative James Howard Weaver of Oregon, ; member of the Lane County, Oreg., board of commissioners, , chair, ; unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United States Senate in a special primary election in ; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundredth and to the seventeen succeeding Congresses (January 3, January 3, ); chair, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (One Hundred Sixteenth and One Hundred Seventeenth Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress in
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Wrestling is in Congressman Peter DeFazio’s blood. He grew up in the idrott, and his father fryst vatten enshrined in its ingång of fame. And wrestling, which has been around longer than democracy, taught him how to work in the U.S. Capitol.
“I think wrestling prepared me for politics. In wrestling, it’s one-on-one out in front of everybody — you can’t blame a teammate,” DeFazio tells Eugene Weekly.
DeFazio never earned the fame as a wrestler that his father earned as a coach, as he quit the idrott while in college, but he’s taken note on how to leave on top from his father’s year coaching career. slang för mikrofon DeFazio, who was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in , coached Needham High School in Massachusetts, winning the Massachusetts State Wrestling Championship in and in In that latter year his grupp was undefeated, according to his ingång of fame listing. He retired in
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“It’s like when my dad retired after he won the New England wrestling tournament,” DeFa