Oregon State Senate 79th Oregon Legislative Assembly, which holds its regular session from 2017 to 2018, has the following leadership: Senate President: Peter Courtney (D–11 Salem)<br> President Pro Tempore: Laurie Monnes Anderson (D–25 Gresham)<br> Majority Leader: Ginny Burdick (D–18 Portland)<br> Minority Leader: Jackie Winters (R–10 Salem) Oregon State Senate The Oregon State Senate is the upper house of the statewide legislature for the US state of Oregon. Along with the lower chamber Oregon House of Representatives it makes up the Oregon Legislative Assembly. There are 30 members of the State Senate, representing 30 districts across the state, each with a population of 114,000.
Oregon Capital Bureau Oregon Capital Bureau The Oregon Capital Bureau is a joint effort of several family-owned news publishers to improve news coverage of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon. The bureau was launched in 2014 by the Pamplin Media Group, which owns 25 newspapers in the Portland Metropolitan Area and Central Oregon, and the EO Media Group, which owns 11 newspapers in Eastern Oregon and on the Oregon Coast. In 2015 the bureau launched the newsletter "Oregon Capital Insider". One of the leading advocates of establishing the bureau was Steve Forrester, president of the EO Media Group, and then publisher