OR-5 Candidate Comparison
Compare for yourself and see why COIN is proud to endorse Janelle Bynum for Oregon's 5th Congressional District.
Janelle Bynum
Democrat
Democrat
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Voted for law to prohibit no-cause evictions
Co-sponsored law to benefit housing developments that will make at least 30 percent of the dwelling units affordable to workforce income households
Voted for law allocating $200 million in affordable housing
Voted for many other bills to support making housing more affordable and addressing houselessness
Lori Chavez-DeRemer
Republican
Republican
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Voted for H.R. 3564 to rescind a Federal Housing Finance Agency rule making it more difficult to serve low- and moderate-income households and rural communities as well as federal agencies’ ability to promote affordable housing and manufactured housing
BODILY AUTONOMY
“Believes a woman’s health decisions are between herself, her family and her doctor. She will lead the fight to restore women’s right to abortion nationally.”
Is endorsed by Planned Parenthood.
Co-sponsored a law to expand Medicaid to cover abortion and gender-affirming care
BODILY AUTONOMY
Voted multiple times to prevent the Defense Department from providing America’s military service members and their families funding for travel to obtain an abortion.
Supports the Dobbs decision, which overturned women’s constitutional right to control their own bodies
Supports a ban on abortion at 6 weeks before a woman even knows she’s pregnant
Has a 100% rating with National Right to Life
For more information, see the Reproductive Health topic on the Tell The Truth Lori site.
CLIMATE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Voted for numerous bills to address climate change including the HB 2021, 100% Clean Energy for All, the signature climate bill of the 2021 session.
Endorsed by League of Conservation Voters.
CLIMATE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Voted for HR 1 which would expand mining and fossil fuel production while repealing important elements of the Biden administration’s long-awaited and desperately overdue climate legislation.
Voted for or sponsored a host of other bills that will increase the ravages of climate change,
For more information, see the Climate and the Environment topic on the Tell The Truth Lori site.
FAMILY SAFETY NET
Co-sponsored the law establishing a refundable child tax credit
Co-sponsored law requiring 12 weeks of paid family leave and creating insurance insurance program to cover it
FAMILY SAFETY NET
Co-sponsored the “America Works Act,” a bill to increase the work requirements for SNAP (by far the largest program in the farm bill), which will effectively cut the spending for, and limit access to, SNAP benefits
For more information, see various topics on the Tell The Truth Lori site.
GUN SAFETY
Sponsored and voted in favor of HB 2005, the law banning “ghost guns.”
Supported prior versions of the bill that would have enabled certain public agencies to bar concealed carry weapons from public buildings and raise the minimum age to possess a firearm from 18 to 21.
These provisions were killed by a GOP walk out.
GUN SAFETY
Refuses to support bills to ban assault weapons, require safe storage, regulate large capacity magazines.
“As a gun owner, concealed carry permit holder, and NRA member I am a champion of the second amendment.” Twitter, 12/8/2021
For more information, see the Gun Safety topic on the Tell The Truth Lori site.
HEALTH CARE
Voted to establish a constitutional right to healthcare
Voted for statewide access to healthcare
Voted for numerous bills expanding access to healthcare
HEALTH CARE
Opposes “government funded healthcare” (such as Medicare, Medicaid, ObamaCare, and the VA system)
Voted for a MAGA bill to codify a Trump regulation that will undermine the ACA.
For more information, see the Heathcare topic on Tell The Truth Lori site.
IMMIGRATION
Opposes requiring immigrants to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship, regardless of their immigration status.
Voted for HB 3265: "Expands and Strengthens the State's Sanctuary Law" which passed.
Voted for numerous bills supporting immigrants and their families.
IMMIGRATION
Voted for MAGA HR 2, a “border security” bill that includes many Trump-era provisions, resuming construction of the useless and ridiculous border wall and stripping unaccompanied children of their rights.
Voted to cut funding for border patrol, immigration services.
For more information, see the Immigration topic on the Tell The Truth Lori site.
VOTING RIGHTS
Voted to enter the multi-state compact to elect the President by the popular vote, circumventing the anti-democratic electoral college
Voted for numerous election reforms, such as eliminating postage on ballot return envelopes and allowing ballots to be postmarked, not received, on election day.
VOTING RIGHTS
Voted for the SAVE Act, a bill requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship, to fan their false narrative that non-citizens are voting in federal elections