Current Position: US Representative of OR District 2
Affiliation: Republican
Former Positions: State Senator from 2018 – 2020; State Delegate from 2008 – 2018
Other Positions: Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife – Natural Resources Committee
District: district covers roughly two-thirds of the state, east of the Willamette Valley
Upcoming Election:
From 1977 to 1980, Bentz was a law associate with the Ontario, Oregon, law firm Yturri Rose, and was made a partner in the firm in 1980, a position he still holds. He specializes in agricultural, water, and real property law. He also owns a 100-acre alfalfa farm.
Bentz began his career as a member of the Oregon Water Resources Commission from 1988 to 1996.[4] He served as chair of the commission from 1994 to 1996.
Quotes:
Cattle & wildlife are being senselessly slaughtered. Ranchers lives are being ruined, many whom are risking their own lives to save their animals. These are gut wrenching photos. These fires should not be this intense but decades of forest mismanagement got us here #BootlegFire
Five on 5 – Cliff Bentz – (R) U.S Representative, OR District 2
OnAir Post: Cliff Bentz OR-02