Kurt Schrader

Jamie McLeod-Skinner announces candidacy for Oregon’s fifth congressional district in a potential race against Schrader, who has yet to decide whether he’ll run in his home district or the state’s new sixth congressional district in the Willamette Valley.

Lawmakers and tribal representatives met with the federal school's leadership and emerged with both immediate and long-range plans to overhaul the Salem boarding school.

Chemawa Indian School sits behind walls both figurative and literal, creating a culture of secrecy that tribal leaders say locks in students and locks out the public.

As Republicans work to replace the Affordable Care Act, Democrats have taken up a challenge to improve the existing health insurance marketplace.

Lawmakers from the Pacific Northwest have traditionally been strong supporters of trade agreements. But Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have changed the politics of trade. 

Rep. Schrader (D-Ore.) split with his democratic colleagues from Oregon to vote for a bill slowing Syrian refugees from settling in the U.S.