Rep. Kurt Schrader

Viewing Kurt Schrader's recent press releases and news feeds.

• Feb. 24 Schrader Votes to Remove Anti-Trust Exemption from Health Insurance Companies

• Feb. 23 Schrader Praises New Credit Card Rules Protecting Consumers

• Jan. 27 Schrader Works to Bring Fiscal Responsibility Back to Washington

• Schrader Works to Bring Fiscal Responsibility Back to Washington

• Jan. 26 Schrader Introduces Bill to Boost Oregon's Nursery Industry and Promote Job Creation

• Schrader Introduces Seniors Medicare Protection Act of 2010

• Dec. 14 Schrader And Wyden Seeking Passage Of Resolution In Support Of Helping Armed Forces Get Home For Holidays

• Schrader Secures $500,000 for Salem's Mill Creek

• Schrader and Defazio Push For Jobs in Hard Hit Rural Communities

• Dec. 11 Schrader Introduces Willamette Falls National Heritage Area Legislation

• Dec. 09 Schrader Secures $12.1 Million For Polk County Armory

• Dec. 08 Bipartisan group of lawmakers introduce legislation aimed at producing healthy forests, rural jobs and domestic energy

• Nov. 19 Houses Passes Schrader's Molalla River Bill

• Nov. 17 Schrader Continues Push for Performance-Based Budgeting

Viewing Kurt Schrader's recent legislative activity.

• Jan. 19 Sponsored HR4473: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish an extended special enrollment period for individuals to enroll in part B of Medicare.

• Dec. 09 Sponsored HCONRES220: Encouraging the Secretaries of the military departments to maximize opportunities for space-available travel for members of the Armed Forces in a leave or pass status who are traveling between December 18, 2009, and January 3, 2010.

• Cosponsored HR930: To strengthen the Nation's research efforts to identify the causes and cure of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, expand psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis data collection, and study access to and quality of care for people with psoriasis and psor…

• Cosponsored HR2142: To require the review of Government programs at least once every 5 years for purposes of assessing their performance and improving their operations, and to establish the Performance Improvement Council.

• Dec. 07 Sponsored HR4227: To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide loans to support the conversion of energy generation or heating and cooling systems to the use of renewable biomass and to support the installation of new equipment to use renewable biomass for…

• Cosponsored HR4233: To amend the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to expand the areas of Federal land on which hazardous fuel reduction projects may be conducted under that Act, to add protection of infrastructure in rural communities as an additional purpose…

• Dec. 06 Cosponsored HR3592: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a tax credit for producing oil from recycled waste.

• Dec. 02 Cosponsored HR4067: To authorize interest-bearing transaction accounts at depository institutions, and for other purposes.

• Nov. 18 Cosponsored HR4125: To amend the Small Business Act to improve services for small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, and for other purposes.

• Cosponsored HRES925: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the meritorious service performed by aviators in the United States Armed Forces who were shot down over, or otherwise forced to land in, hostile territory yet evaded enemy capture or …

• Nov. 15 Sponsored HR4081: To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the suitability and feasibility of establishing the Willamette Falls National Heritage Area in Oregon, and for other purposes.

• Nov. 04 Cosponsored HR4028: To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve services for veterans residing in rural areas.

• Nov. 03 Cosponsored HR2935: To establish a non-profit corporation to communicate United States entry policies and otherwise promote tourist, business, and scholarly travel to the United States.

• Nov. 02 Sponsored HR4010: To amend the Act of August 9, 1955, to authorize the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians of Oregon to obtain 99-year lease authority for trust land.

• Oct. 28 Cosponsored HRES877: Expressing support for Chinese human rights activists Huang Qi and Tan Zuoren for engaging in peaceful expression as they seek answers and justice for the parents whose children were killed in the Sichuan earthquake of May 12, 2008.

• Oct. 22 Cosponsored HR2756: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow eligible veterans to use qualified veterans mortgage bonds to refinance home loans, and for other purposes.

• Cosponsored HRES839: Condemning the illegal extraction of Madagascar's natural resources.

• Oct. 19 Sponsored HR3854: Small Business Financing and Investment Act of 2009

• Oct. 14 Sponsored HR3841: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal carryover basis for decedents dying in 2009, to increase the estate tax exemption to $5,000,000, and to reduce the maximum estate and gift tax rate to 45 percent.

• Sponsored HR3842: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the first-time homebuyer tax credit.