Chris Beck

• vote2001-04-25 · Voted no on HB 2744-A (prohibiting local governments from setting minimum wages above the statewide rate, except for public employers and contracts), which passed the Oregon House 36-22 on April 25, 2001.[7]
• vote2001-02-06 · Voted no on HB 2092-A (defining and expanding the scope of home visits and searches by probation officers), which passed the Oregon House 37-23 on February 6, 2001.[8]
• vote2001-06-04 · Voted no on HB 2010-A (authorizing environmental cleanup districts funded by a privilege tax on gross receipts, aimed at the Portland Harbor Superfund site), which passed the Oregon House 31-29 on June 4, 2001.[9]

• ✓SupportsExpand public health coverage

  Says the current administration, 'with the blind support of our Congressman,' has cut Medicaid with no plan for comprehensive health care reform, and calls quality health care a human right.[3]

  “Quality Health Care is a Human Right.”

• ✓SupportsLoosen zoning rules to build more housing

  Says housing must be built, with public assistance and incentives, concentrated in existing Main Street neighborhoods rather than scattered onto farm and forest resource land.[3]

• ✕OpposesBroad tariffs on imported goods

  Calls the tariffs imposed under the Trump administration 'careless and haphazard' and says he would work to repeal them.[3]

• Health care access: describes quality health care as a human right and cites rural hospital and clinic closures making basic and emergency care harder to reach in the district.[3]
• Housing: says the free market alone has never produced affordable housing and calls for public assistance and incentives, with low-cost housing built into existing Main Street neighborhoods rather than on farm and forest land.[3]
• Trade and immigration: opposes the tariffs imposed during the Trump administration, which he says have hurt rural export markets, and calls for repealing them alongside a 'sensible, bipartisan approach to legal immigration.'[3]

• Attended Oregon public schools; earned a bachelor's degree from Brown University (1985) and a graduate degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (2005).[3]
• Began a career in public service as legislative staff for the Oregon Legislature, then was elected as an Oregon State Representative and served six years; later spent six years as a rural economic policy advisor at USDA headquarters in Washington, D.C.[3]
• Worked as a land-conservation real estate negotiator for the Trust for Public Land, helping conserve land in the Columbia Gorge and elsewhere in Oregon.[3]

Raised $95K · spent $41K · $54K cash on hand (through 2026-06-30) FEC filing ↗