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Rep. James Oberstar
Democrat • 8th District, Minnesota • 18th Term • Sworn In 1975
- 20 Sponsored Bills (Ranks 51 of 440) 1 Made Into Law (Ranks 8 of 440)
- 161 Co-Sponsored Bills (Ranks 236 of 440) 6 Made Into Law (Ranks 42 of 440)
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- Rep. Dale Kildee
- Rep. Frank LoBiondo
- Least often votes with:
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- Votes with party 97%
- Abstains: 1%
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Help with mortgage, social securty
... federal government program, Congressman Jim Oberstar will have representatives from his office in Milaca and Princeton this Wednesday to help you out. ...
Extension of current highway program likely
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., continued to push for action on his draft multi-year reauthorization bill, ...
Local events will remember terrorist attacks of 2001
It will feature speeches by Duluth Mayor Don Ness and US Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.), a procession of military members and others and a flyover by the 148th ...
Great Lakes advocates meet in Duluth this week
...Lakes Czar, will address the conference tonight, with U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D- Minn, slated for Friday and U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar, D- Minn., scheduled for Saturday. Davis was president of the Chicago-based Alliance for the Great Lakes before taking t
Tom Steward: Where are the jobs promised by stimulus?
...for passing the record stimulus bill: jobs, jobs, jobs. "First and foremost, this is a jobs bill," Eighth District U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar, a key architect of the measure, said earlier this year. "It will put Americans to work at jobs that pay a living w
Oberstar says Obama's health care speech inspires Congress
Washington DC - Eighth District Congressman Jim Oberstar said at the conclusion of President Barack Obama's address on health care reform to a joint session ...
Transportation bill hits roadblock
...instead of the 18 months the Obama administration requested. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.) has pushed to avoid extending the existing law, but one of his top lieutenants on the committee, Rep. Peter De
Great Lakes advocates meet in Duluth this week
Amy Klobuchar, D- Minn, slated for Friday and US Rep. Jim Oberstar, D- Minn., scheduled for Saturday. Davis was president of the Chicago-based Alliance for ...
RE: James Oberstar
Jim Oberstar, 8th District Democrat: "He is looking for a rational and thoughtful presentation of the health care reform plan that will unify members of ...
Huntley, Oberstar give thumbs-up
Huntley and US Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Chisholm, noted that Obama dispelled what they called lies and exaggerations that have circulated about the plan. ...
Oberstar experience important
The voters of District 8 surely did not return Rep. Jim Oberstar over and over again because he was invisible. I disagreed with Rep. ...
RE: James Oberstar
Throughout my service in Congress, paying for health care has been the most recurrent theme and deepest concern to the greatest number of 8th District ...
Walters makes it - cuts and bruises and all
Gary Walters and his family met with Congressman Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., Tuesday in Washington, DC, after Walters completed his Rollerblading trek to the US ...
Oberstar 'appalled' at health reform misinformation
Although US Rep. Jim Oberstar didn't do the town hall meeting bit on health insurance reform over the ...
City, NPS reach HQ deal, By LAUREL BEAGER, Editor
Falls Mayor Shawn Mason said the US Rep. Jim Oberstar contacted the city about the park service's agreement that will see a 20-year lease by the park ...
'Serious' hazmat spills not reported
...other cases were handled with warnings. "It is (the agency's) responsibility to take some type of enforcement action," said Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., and chairman of the House Transportation Committee. Without accurate data, the agency "cannot put tog
RE: James Oberstar
Throughout my service in Congress, paying for health care has been the most recurrent theme and deepest concern to the greatest number of 8th District ...
Health care reform: A Minnesota perspective, By Jim Oberstar, US ...
Throughout my service in Congress, paying for health care has been the most recurrent theme and deepest concern to the greatest number of 8th District ...
Cummins to oppose Oberstar for Congress
Michael Cummins of Brook Park will challenge Jim Oberstar in the 8th District of Minnesota. Brook Park, MN â Michael Cummins of Brook Park will challenge ...
'Serious' hazmat spills not reported
"It is (the agency's) responsibility to take some type of enforcement action," said Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., and chairman of the House Transportation ...
Construction begins on new Duluth, Minnesota airport terminal
1--Earth-moving equipment rumbled in the background this afternoon even as US Rep. Jim Oberstar prepared to heft a golden shovelful of dirt at a ceremonial ...
Intensity on tap
Meanwhile, Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.) and other Transportation Committee members want to pass a massive transportation reauthorization bill. ...
The Church and health care
On Wednesday afternoon I drove from St. Paul to Duluth for a 30-minute meeting with Congressman Jim Oberstar, members of the staff of the Minnesota Catholic ...
RE: James Oberstar
... leave delayed planes passed the House this spring, after Transportation Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., ushered it through his committee. ...
Walters can almost see the Potomac
Walters is scheduled to meet with Congressman Jim Oberstar Tuesday afternoon on the Capitol steps. Thursday he has two appearances scheduled, ...
MINNESOTA POLITICS: Molnau mulls governor bid ... Summit not open ...
A Republican construction executive said he will challenge Democratic US Rep. Jim Oberstar for a second time in northeastern Minnesota's 8th Congressional ...
Congress: Kerry stepping up
...the effort to stop Democratic legislation." She also said that she'd run for president if God told her to. Fellow Minnesotan Rep. Jim Oberstar (D) took a shot at her for those comments at a town hall: "Tell her there are voices other than God that are i
Pioneer Editorial: Peterson right on health care
He's waging skirmish with US Rep. Jim Oberstar, DFL-8th District, who wants to move ahead with a major six-year funding bill for transportation. ...
Our view: 8th District ripe for debate on health-care reform
In 35 years as a representative of Minnesota's 8th Congressional District, US Rep. Jim Oberstar has âdone town halls,â as he said in a News Tribune story ...
City to review roadways, FTZ, By LAUREL BEAGER, Editor
âThe city suggests that the county and city representatives sit down privately with their counsel and representatives of both (US Rep. Jim) Oberstar's ...
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