- See Cliff Bentz's sponsored bills →Cliff BentzRepublicanIncumbent✓ Verified$1.3M raised
- Chris BeckDemocratic✓ Verified$256K raised
Where they stand
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| Issue | Cliff BentzRepublican | Chris BeckDemocratic |
|---|---|---|
| Economy & Jobs | Bentz supports strengthening the economy by directing investments toward rural Oregon and backing policies that promote economic growth. Bentz votes yea on multiple bills supporting technology use, capital access, privacy protections, and reauthorization of insurance programs. | Beck supports strengthening rural economies by repealing tariffs, ending the Iran war, and investing in housing and job programs to keep communities vibrant and affordable. Beck criticizes what he calls 50 years of trickle-down economics. |
| Healthcare | Bentz opposes government-run healthcare and supports free market reforms to lower costs, improve quality, and protect the doctor-patient relationship. Bentz supports increasing federal investment in rural healthcare to modernize technology and improve access. Bentz votes yea on acts reauthorizing rural care, Medicaid protections, lowering premiums, and supporting patients and communities. | Beck calls for repealing the 2025 federal tax and spending law (H.R. 1), citing its Medicaid cuts. |
| Immigration | Bentz supports stopping illegal immigration by improving border security and building/completing the border wall. Bentz votes yea on multiple immigration enforcement and security bills but votes nay on a national emergency resolution. | Beck supports a sensible, bipartisan approach to legal immigration to help rural economies and address workforce shortages. |
| Public Safety & Crime | Bentz votes yea on bills enhancing prison staff safety, protecting privacy, veterans’ rights, cashless bail reporting, and violent offender restrictions. | Beck supports restoring federal wildfire prevention funding and staffing to protect rural communities from devastating wildfires. |
| Abortion | Bentz is a right to life candidate who believes life begins at conception and supports protecting life from that point. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ |
| Taxes & Government Spending | Bentz supports reducing regulations and lowering taxes to strengthen the economy, opposing taxes like the Gross Receipts Tax that harm small businesses. Bentz votes yea on tax relief, budget resolutions, continuing appropriations, and various appropriations acts. | Beck supports adjusting excessive tax breaks on vacation and luxury homes to fund low-interest financing programs for first-time rural home buyers. |
| Energy & Environment | Bentz supports President Trump’s plan to update NEPA to streamline environmental reviews, reduce bureaucracy, and speed up projects while safeguarding the environment. Bentz supports modernizing hydropower licensing and protecting existing hydroelectric energy generation as clean, renewable, and cost-effective power. Bentz votes yea on disapproving EPA rules, diesel emissions reduction, marine conservation, battlefield protection, consumer fuel choice, and HEATS Act. | Beck supports protecting working lands and expanding conservation programs to sustain farms, ranches, and forests for future generations. Beck supported the completed Klamath River dam removal but takes a more cautious stance on removing Snake River dams. |
| Foreign Policy & Defense | Bentz supports military construction and veterans affairs funding, including $80 million for Kingsley Field Academic Training Center. Bentz votes nay on resolutions to remove US forces from Iran and Lebanon, but yea on defense authorization and veterans’ clinic naming bills. | Beck supports ending the war in Iran to reduce human and financial losses and lower fuel costs impacting rural communities. Beck argues ending the war in Iran and rebuilding international alliances would help lower fuel and fertilizer costs. |