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Fiscal responsibility has also been a major charge of Senator Starr’s. For multiple legislative sessions, Starr has pushed legislation encouraging Salem’s elected leaders to set aside 3% of the General Fund before the bi-annual budget is determined, and put that money into the state’s rainy day fund.
Starr’s perspective on the value of life has also been known among his colleagues, but his determination has never been stronger than it was in the 2009 session. After the tragic murder of eight months pregnant Heather Snively in Washington County, Senator Starr worked up until the final days of the session to secure legislation to recognize the murder of a pregnant woman as a more serious crime. Heather Snively and her unborn son, John Stephen Snively, will forever be remembered by...
Senator Starr is not only a leader in transportation and infrastructure development in Oregon and the Northwest, he has been summoned to Washington by both the Bush and Obama administrations to contribute to a national transportation vision. As his most prominent passion in policy-making, he will continue to be a major player in this field.
