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WASHINGTON, D.C.– Electricity generated by water is clean, renewable, highly reliable, and once built, extremely cost-effective. In the United States, there are 181 federal hydroelectric projects, and 2,221 non-federal hydroelectric projects. These non-federal hydro-projects generate about 55 gigawatts of reliable power (enough electricity for 40-50 million people). Non-federal hydro-projects are subject to the Federal Power Act and must be issued a license by the federal government to operate. These licenses must be renewed every 30-50 years.
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WASHINGTON, D.C.– Congress, last July, included, in the “Working Families Tax Cut Act” (WFTC), fifty billion dollars for “Rural Health Care Transformation”. This fifty billion dollar sum will be distributed over a five year period, to the states, beginning this year. The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) is responsible for determining the means of distribution. Oregon’s 2026 share, $197 million dollars, has just been allocated by the OHA for ultimate use by rural healthcare providers.
Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Ore., had questions about what real consent looks like online, noting that he often scrolls quickly through policies and automatically clicks “yes. “The way this works, you harvest this data from millions of people. And so to suggest that these companies are going to go to millions of people and ascertain that each one has reached that level of consent seems highly unlikely,” Bentz said.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congressman Cliff Bentz (OR-02) introduced legislation to grant Crook County, Oregon, a permanent right of way for the construction of a new public access road in Juniper Canyon and convey four Bureau of Land Management parcels to the County for the establishment and maintenance of “fire safe zones”.
A House Natural Resources subcommittee this week will wade into a fight over how to share water between farmers and tribal fisherman in the Klamath Basin.
The Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries is set to take up Oregon Republican Rep. Cliff Bentz’s H.R. 8259, the “Reclamation Project Consultation Improvement Act.”
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WASHINGTON, D.C. --Today, Congressman Cliff Bentz (OR-02) voted YES for the Fiscal Year 2027 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, legislation that includes $80 million for the construction of an Academic Training Center at Kingsley Field Air National Guard Base in Klamath Falls. The bill now passes over to the Senate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Cliff Bentz (OR-O2) announced that Yi-jia, Lu (Lyra Lu), a junior attending Burns High School, has been selected as the winner of OR-02’s 2026 Congressional Art Competition out of a record number of amazing submissions.