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DeFazio donates pay
hike for scholarships
By Dan Eisler
Emerald Contributor
For the post four years, Rep
Peter DoFazio has returned his
congressional pay raises to the
U S Treasury
Hut lately the Springfield
Democrat has boon returning
less than he used to — only
about half. The rest is being
sent to college scholarships for
Oregon students, including the
University's Presidential Schol
arship program.
Beginning in November or
December, DeFa/io will donate
$2,000 of his pay raise to tier
program, designed to recruit
the !>est and brightest Oregon
high school graduates to attend
Oregon colleges and universi
ties. The funds will he available
for this school year, said Nancy
Graham, associate director of
the University Foundation's an
nual fund.
DeFa/io specified the recipi
ents must he graduates of high
si bools in the 4th Congression
al District who intend to live in
Oregon and pursue careers in
public service, Graham said.
Public service includes local,
state and federal employment,
or private non-profit employ
ment in community service,
DeFa/io said
Thu Presidential Scholarship
program awards $2,000 a year,
for up to four years, to incom
ing freshmen on a rotating ba
sis, Graham said
In addition, Lane, Umpqua
and Southwestern Oregon com
munity colleges will get slight
ly more than $2,000 each for a
one-year, full-tuition scholar
ship.
Those scholarships are of
fered through the Oregon State
Scholarship Commission and
designed to primarily serve dis
located workers, such as those
in the timber industry, living in
the 4th District.
Beginning in January, De
Fa/io will start a new payment
schedule, returning part of his
raise to the public debt account
of the Treasury’s general fund
lor six months and sending
chei ks to the two scholarship
programs the rest of the year,
said Betsy Boyd, district direc
tor for DeFazio's Fugene office
" This is his way of making a
little bit of money available to
the people in his congressional
district," Boyd said. "He bene
fill'd from financial aid, (imt) fi
nancial aid is nothing com
pared to what il was "
Dol'.i/io said lie received fed
eral student loans while allend
ing the University of Oregon
and Tufts University in Massa
chusetts.
"I could not have gone to col
lege without federal student
loans and this is my way of giv
ing someone else a hand,” he
said.
Defa/io said he had thought
about donating part of his raise
for scholarships for several
years hut wasn't prompted un
til the latest raise went into ef
fect in January.
At town meetings people fold
Peter DeFazio
DeFazio lu) should spend the
money in Oregon, and "things
coalesced when Congress got
the pay raise I didn't think
there'd be any objection to a
50-50 split,” he said.
"In times of financial crisis
Congress should lead by exam
ple," DeFazio said "I don't be
lieve the massive pay raises for
members of Congress were ap
propriate.’
Congressional pay Inis in
creased twice since DoFu/.io
took office four years ago a
ti! percent increase from
577,400 to $125,100. DeFazio
has accepted an amount equal
to the cost-of-living raises given
Social Security recipients and
returned the rest to the Treas
ury, putting Ins current salary
at 502,000, said Ann Larsen,
DeFuzio's press secretary.
That leaves $10,000 alter tax
es. half of which he continues
sending back to the Treasury,
with the other half going to the
scholarships, Larsen said.
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