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August 1, 2025

Washington, D.C. — Today, Congressional Doctors and U.S. Representatives Maxine Dexter (OR-03), Ami Bera (CA-06), Kelly Morrison (MI-03), Raul Ruiz (CA-25), and Kim Schrier (WA-08) sent a letter urging the Trump Administration to take immediate and sustained action to address the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza. The letter highlights the extreme hunger, mass displacement, and near-collapse of Gaza’s health care system, which has left millions of civilians in desperate need of food, water, medical care, and safe shelter.


July 31, 2025

PORTLAND, OR — Today, Congresswoman Dexter released the following statement in response to the formal rescission of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) endangerment finding, which found that greenhouse gases like

Issues: Climate

July 25, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Representatives Maxine Dexter, M.D. (OR-03), Jerrold Nadler (NY-12), and Ilhan Omar (MN-05) introduced H.R.4605, the End Prescription Drug Ads Now Act, legislation that would ban prescription drug advertising in all forms.


July 23, 2025

PORTLAND, OR – Today, Congresswoman Maxine Dexter (OR-03) announced that all 15 of her Community Project Funding (CPF) requests have been included in the proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 government funding bills. The CPF requests reflect the priorities she heard directly from community members. 


July 18, 2025

  

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Today, Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. (OR-03) introduced the Climate Health Emergency Act, bold legislation requiring the Secretary of Health and Human Services to declare the climate crisis a public health emergency. The declaration would unlock a myriad of federal resources and jumpstart the unified response needed to meet the full scope of the climate crisis. 

Issues: Climate

July 15, 2025

PORTLAND, OR —Today, Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. (OR-03), along with U.S.


July 11, 2025

BELLINGHAM, WA — Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. (OR-03) today released the following statement:

Trump said he would go after ‘the worst of the worst.’ Instead, his immigration machine is abducting Oregonians without cause—including four U.S. citizen children in my district.


July 3, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. (OR-03) released the following statement after voting against the House passage of Donald Trump’s Big Ugly Betrayal Bill. 


July 2, 2025

Dexter: “It’s despicable and an all-out assault on the working families that I came to Congress to protect.”


June 22, 2025

Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. (OR-03) released the following statement in response to Trump’s unilateral decision to strike Iran.