mark hatfield served, but if mark hatfield heard about the cutbacks in antihunger programs, mark hatfield, a republican, would say no and so will the congresswoman and i. [applause] >> thank you. you want me to stand up? i am deborah. i live in northwest portland. thank you both for all you have been doing and for being here. senator wyden, i really appreciate your questioning of attorney general jeff sessions. thank you. [applause] and that brings me to my concern. health care is a huge issue, hunger is a huge issue. but i really worry about the country as a whole and the damage that is being done. trump has nominated someone who doesn't believe in public education in charge of public education, someone who thinks poverty is a state of mind running urban development and housing. the list goes on and on. the director of the office of government ethics resigned today. so, i am terrified about the damage that is going to be done from a macro level, not just a program, but to our way of life and also our standing in the world. rep. bonamici: thank you for here and sharing those concerns. i j

mark hatfield served, but if mark hatfield heard about the cutbacks in antihunger programs, mark hatfield, a republican, would say no and so will the congresswoman and i. [applause] >> thank you. you want me to stand up? i am deborah. i live in northwest portland. thank you both for all you have been doing and for being here. senator wyden, i really appreciate your questioning of attorney general jeff sessions. thank you. [applause] and that brings me to my concern. health care is a huge issue, hunger is a huge issue. but i really worry about the country as a whole and the damage that is being done. trump has nominated someone who doesn't believe in public education in charge of public education, someone who thinks poverty is a state of mind running urban development and housing. the list goes on and on. the director of the office of government ethics resigned today. so, i am terrified about the damage that is going to be done from a macro level, not just a program, but to our way of life and also our standing in the world. rep. bonamici: thank you for here and sharing those concerns. i j

we talk about mark hatfield, part of the hatfield school government. hatfield was governor and then a us senator and he was a republican, but very liberal. bob packwood was a liberal republican us senator. of the most important politician in the state, the one that everyone talks about in the newspaper and the newspapers and others say why aren't politics like they used it to be in the 70s, was tom mccall. , call was the governor of the state in the 1970s and probably my called the golden era of portland, oregon politics when some of the most important progressive reforms were taking place in mccall was at the forefront of that reform and so routinely when people talk about oregon and oregonians talk about our political history they talk about tom mccall. one of the interesting things about, call us while he was governor he was republican, very moderate republican. the treasurer was a fellow by the name of bob staab, a democrat. he was the leading democrat in the state for many years. he ran for governor four times and was elected once. when he was tre

mark has skilled was part of the government, a governor and then or mark hatfield was a govern and then a senator, very liberal. bob packwood was a senator. the most important politician in the state, the one everybody ,alks about in the newspaper was tom mccall, the governor of the state in the 1970's. we might call that the golden era of oregon politics. it's when some of the most important progressive reforms are taking place, and mccall was at the forefront of that reform effort. routinely, when people talk about oregon, they talk about tom mccall. of the interesting things about, call is that while he was governor, he was a republican, a .ery moderate republican a fellow by the name of bob democrats the leading in the state for many years. he ran for governor four times and was elected once. he would often make a suggestion of something the state ought to say,nd the mccall would that's a good idea, we should do that. you can just imagine in the world today, a democrat saying we should do something and republican saying that's a good idea, we should do that. it's almost unimaginable