Politics
In 2003, Feldkamp returned to Oregon to run for the Republican nomination for the United States House of Representatives for Oregon's 4th congressional district.
Feldkamp ran on a conservative platform. Feldkamp supports George W. Bush, the war in Iraq, the Patriot Act, and tax cuts for all. Feldkamp advocates mixed stands on social issues. He endorses legal abortion as under Roe v. Wade, with limitations including parental notification, and civil union for same sex partners. He opposed medical marijuana, federal funding of abortion, gay marriage, adoption by gay partners, and has said "Humane Society of the United States an "extreme" organization dedicated to outlawing hunting."
Feldkamp is an advocate for many logging interests. He favors making changes to local laws to revive logging in old growth forests, and modifications in the Clean Water Act. He supports "selling lands managed by the federal Bureau of Land Management back to the counties." Timber and logging interests contributed heavily to the Feldkamp campaign.
In the November 2004 contest, Peter DeFazio earned 60% of the vote to Jim Feldkamp's 39%. Feldkamp easily won the May 2006 Republican nomination. In the November 2006 election, Feldkamp was again defeated by DeFazio, who earned 62% of the vote to Feldkamp's 38%.
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