Walden to Host Town Hall Meeting
This article was in Tuesday’s (March 29, 2016) Herald and News
Written By: Holly Owens
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden will hold town halls and other meetings in Klamath, Lake, Umatilla, Wallowa and Malheur counties this weekend, according to a news release.
The meeting in Klamath Falls will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall, 515 Klamath Ave. The meeting in Lakeview will begin at 10:45 a.m. Saturday at the Lake County Courthouse, 513 Center St.
First, Walden (R-Hood River) will hold a town hall meeting in Klamath Falls where he’ll provide an update on the TSA Fairness Act, legislation he authored in the U.S. House that would restore commercial air service to the Crater Lake-Klamath Falls Regional Airport by bringing back federal TSA screening. The bill was unanimously approved by the House Homeland Security Committee last week, and the next step forward is a vote in the full House of Representatives.
Next, Walden will host more public meetings in Lakeview, Enterprise and Jordan Valley to listen to concerns from communities and local officials on federal land management policies in the region. Walden recently wrote letters to Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and U.S. Forest Service Regional Forester Jim Pena urging the administration to heed the voices of local communities, particularly when it comes to decisions about the potential national monument designation in Malheur County and the Blue Mountain Forest Plan.
In Pendleton, Walden will meet with local hunters, fishermen, and shooting enthusiasts to update them on the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act, a bill recently approved by the U.S. House to help protect access to public lands and strengthen Second Amendment rights for sportsmen.
He will also update residents on his latest work in Congress to strengthen our national security, and grow jobs and the economy in Oregon. Before these meetings, Walden will be in Bend and Medford.
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