-- -- a message from congressman peter defazio click here to open this e-mail in its own browser window click here to open a plain text version of this email update from congressman peter defazio here's an update of what i'm working on both in oregon and in washington, d.c.: gop tax bill: the wrong priorities even before the republican tax bill passed congress and was signed into law by president trump in december, house speaker paul ryan began proposing we ransack domestic programs in order to offset the vast amount of debt created by his new tax bill. 