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Peter Anthony DeFazio /dɪˈfɑːzioʊ/ (born May 27, 1947) is the U.S. Representative for Oregon's 4th congressional district, serving since 1987. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes Eugene, Springfield, Roseburg, Coos Bay, Florence, and part of Corvallis. As Oregon's most senior member of Congress, he is the dean of Oregon's House of Representatives delegation. A native of Massachusetts and a veteran of the United States Air Force Reserves, he previously served as a county commissioner in Lane County, Oregon.

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There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.

White, California Coast, Oregon, Women, Fishermen, Coast

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

Tired, Iraq, Majority, Foreign, Grown

A timeline for bringing U. S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.

Bringing, Government, Home, Iraqi, Legitimacy, Responsibility

The U. S. must renounce any U. S. interest in constructing permanent U. S. military bases in Iraq.

Iraq, Military, Permanent, Renounce

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

Years, Oil, Increase, Crude, Margins

The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.

Training, Should, Force, Iraqi, Equipping, Forces

In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U. S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves.

Cities, Troops, Citizens, Front, Security

The U. S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.

Force, Freedom, Iraq, Unity

There is no free market in oil.

Free, Free Market, Market, Oil

To the contrary, I believe the U. S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq has been neutralized.

Asked, Believe, Iraq, Military, Threat

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

Book, Oil, Would Be, Books, Regulate, Regulated

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

Years, Oil, America, Mostly

In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have enjoyed seeing the diversity that craft brewery has fueled across the Nation.

Years, Oregon, Diversity, Representative, Enjoyed, Pubs

Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U. S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U. S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq.

Government, Home, Iraq, Misunderstanding

I don't think there is anything this Congress could do more definitively to put people back to work, to stimulate our economy to increase our efficiency, our competitiveness, both nationally and internationally

Thinking, People, Back To Work, Congress, Increase, Back

Nor should the U. S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

Essentially, Forced, Hippie, Military, War

Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.

Against, Dictator, Men, Tyrant, Tyrants, War