As he prepares to step down from Congress after a political career that spanned five decades, Democratic U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer is ever more certain he made the right choice.

Earl Blumenauer is one of the longest-serving elected officials in Oregon history – if not the longest. He first won election to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1972, when he was in his ...

U.S. Congressman Earl Blumenauer is reflecting on his half-century career in Oregon politics months away from stepping down as a representative of the state’s 3rd Congressional District.

“Earl is one of them.” Blumenauer didn’t immediately become ... and he doesn’t even like to joke about it. When Oregon decriminalization passed in 1973, a group of advocates and lawmakers ...

(KPTV) - The dean of Oregon’s congressional delegation is wrapping up a five-decade long political career. FOX 12 recently had a chance to sit down with Earl Blumenauer to discuss his remarkable ...

U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer has been an effective congressman and politician, (“Retiring U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer reflects on his five decades in politics,” Dec. 20). However, he and House ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Earl Blumenauer, who represented Oregon’s 3rd Congressional District for 28 years, suggested in his final speech on the floor of the US House of Representatives that ...

Earl Blumenauer is one of the longest-serving elected officials in Oregon history — if not the longest. He first won election to the Oregon House of Representatives in his early 20s, and over ...

Now Blumenauer, an Oregon Democrat, has retired after 28 years ... you wrote an orientation letter to help new colleagues. What inspired it? Earl Blumenauer: I was campaigning in North Carolina ...