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Peter DeFazio

"In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have enjoyed seeing the diversity that craft brewery has fueled across the Nation."

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"In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have enjoyed seeing the diversity that craft brewery has fueled across the Nation."

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Asa Don Brown

"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

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Asa Don Brown

"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."

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Asa Don Brown

"My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it."

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Asa Don Brown

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

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Asa Don Brown

"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

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Asa Don Brown

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

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Asa Don Brown

"Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand."

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Asa Don Brown

"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

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Asa Don Brown

"At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind."

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Asa Don Brown

"Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food."

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Peter DeFazio
"A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens."
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"Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death."
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"The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years."
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"There is no free market in oil."
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Peter DeFazio
"But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful."
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"About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it."
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"Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections."
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Peter DeFazio
"The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force."
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"In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves."
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"Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war."
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