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Another day, another report outlining Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s perpetual hypocrisy. A new story from the Oregon Capital Chronicle details how Chavez-DeRemer is falsely taking credit for bringing investment home after previously opposing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law – despite its investments in Oregon, with “more than $5.2 billion in Oregon-specific investments” announced thus far. The report illuminates the fact that she now shamelessly praises the legislation she railed against and “took credit for helping secure $1.29 million in funding available because of the infrastructure law.”
Whether it’s infrastructure funding or reproductive freedom, Chavez-DeRemer is no stranger to hypocrisy and disingenuous posturing.
DCCC Spokesperson Dan Gottlieb:
“It’s an election year, which can only mean one thing for Lori Chavez-DeRemer: deceive Oregonians about her views, her hypocrisy, and her far-right voting record. Oregon’s 5th Congressional District deserves an honest, transparent representative with a proven bipartisan record, and that’s why voters there will support Janelle Bynum to flip this seat blue in November.”
Oregon Capital Chronicle: Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer criticized infrastructure law, now lauds it
Julia Shumway | May 29, 2024
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As a candidate in 2022, Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer said the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law was “not a benefit” and would see “pennies on the dollar” returned to communities.
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But as the U.S. representative of Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, Chavez-DeRemer has praised the law and some of the more than $5.2 billion in Oregon-specific investments that have been announced in the past two years.
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When the Environmental Protection Agency announced earlier in May that Oregon would receive more than $28 million through the bipartisan infrastructure law to help identify and replace lead service lines, Chavez-DeRemer joined Democratic colleagues in the state’s congressional delegation to applaud the announcement.
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That’s a change from the pitch Chavez-DeRemer took almost two years ago, when she was vying for the Republican nomination for the 5th Congressional District. In an April 2022 interview with the editorial board of The Bulletin – which ended up endorsing Chavez-DeRemer in the primary – she said the infrastructure law wasn’t a good use of tax money.
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By the time Chavez-DeRemer took office in 2023, she had changed her tune – in a January 2023 press release responding to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, Chavez-DeRemer said “certain policies, like the bipartisan infrastructure law, were necessary investments that will continue to pay off.”
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And in March, she took credit for helping secure $1.29 million in funding available because of the infrastructure law so the Bend Municipal Airport could build a permanent air control tower.
- Chavez-DeRemer is far from alone in criticizing the infrastructure law and then praising it. More than 200 Republican members of Congress voted against the measure, including Oregon’s other Republican representative, Cliff Bentz who represents the 2nd Congressional District in eastern Oregon. And several of them have gone on to boast about funding for projects in their districts. Biden slammed those Republicans as having “no shame” in a 2022 speech.
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