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Blumenauer Seeks Input from OBA

Congressman Earl Blumenauer met with Oregon Business Association transportation and environmental stakeholders to discuss OBA efforts and the Congressman’s transportation vision.

Congressman Blumenauer is a national leader on smart growth and livable communities. His congressional committee assignments include the Highways, Transit & Pipelines Subcommittee, Water Resources & Environment Subcommittee and the Railroad Subcommittee.

Blumenauer has been holding stakeholder meetings about transportation issues and wanted to meet with the OBA Climate Friendly Transportation working group to discuss state efforts and how they connect with his efforts in Congress.

Blumenauer pointed out that the American Society of Civil Engineers has graded the nation’s civil infrastructure a D- and estimated that a $1.6 trillion investment is needed over the next five years to bring the nation’s infrastructure to standard.

This is not just a problem of roads and bridges but also affects ports and transit. The current Highway Trust Fund will not support current maintenance, much less future needs.

OBA Climate Friendly Trasportation workgroup, led by Ron Anderson, Senior VP at David Evans & Associates, will present it's recommendations to the Governor's Transportation Vision Sub-committee in early May. The concepts being developed will answer the challenge of presenting a strong new investment in our transportation infastructure while considering Oregon's commitment to reducing greenhouse gases.

Make Mine a Million $ Business

Northwest Regional Business Event and Competition for Women

Date: Wednesday - June 11, 2008

Time: View Event Schedule

Location: Fisher Pavillion - Seattle, WA

Make Mine a Million $ Business is a program of Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence. The award program provides a combination of money, mentoring, marketing and technology tools that women entrepreneurs need to help grow their businesses from micro to $ millions.

"Of Oregon’s 137,000 women-owned businesses, less than 3% are at $1 million in revenues. The potential for growth is remarkable. I encourage all women interested in taking their business to the next level to apply to the program." - Senator Ron Wyden.

Senator Wyden joins Washington Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell as well as Senator John Tester of Montana as Honorary Hosts of the Make Mine a Million $ Business program in Seattle.

View Featured Speakers and Guests including keynote speaker Governor Chris Gregoire.

Meet experts in financing, marketing, technology, business software and insurance.
Witness women entrepreneurs present their businesses to an audience for a chance to win a package of money, marketing, mentoring and technology tools.
Vote for your favorites!
Network with and learn from other women entrepreneurs who are on the road to or beyond the Million $ milestone.
Get tools and inspiration to take your business to a Million $ in revenues and more!

Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence is a leading national not-for-profit provider of resources and business education for women entrepreneurs. Their mission is to inspire 1 million women entrepreneurs to reach annual revenues of $1 million by the year 2010. Reaching this goal will create over 4 million new American jobs and $700 billion in economic activity.