U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio

Congressman Peter DeFazio was first elected to the U.S. Congress in 1986. He is dean of the Oregon House delegation, and represents southwest Oregon from Corvallis in the north, down to the California border-from the west coast to the Cascade Mountains.

The ten-term member sits on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, where he serves as Chair of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. He also serves on the Aviation and Railroad Subcommittees.

DeFazio also serves on the House Committee on Homeland Security, where he sits on the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection.

Finally, DeFazio serves on the House Natural Resources Committee, where he sits on the Subcommittee on National Parks,  Forests and Public Lands.

DeFazio and his wife, Myrnie Daut, live in Springfield, OR. He has logged over three million miles traveling between Oregon and Washington, DC, about three times each month, to serve the people of Oregon's Fourth Congressional District in the United States Congress.

One of DeFazio' s proudest accomplishments is the more than $260,000 in after-tax salary he has contributed to education scholarships and to reduce the national debt. Those contributions have funded 157 scholarships for displaced Oregon workers at the five southwestern Oregon community colleges, and the University of Oregon. Since he took office, DeFazio has refused to accept congressional pay raises while the government is deficit spending, and has linked his pay to Social Security cost-of-living adjustments.