Cliff Bentz

In January of 2008, Cliff Bentz was appointed to the Oregon House of Representatives District 60 seat, and later that year, he was elected to his first of five two-year terms as Oregon State Representative. While in the House, he served on the Revenue, Transportation, Energy and Environment, Legislative Counsel, and Joint Tax Credits committees, and as a member and chair of the Legislative Council on River Governance, the Oregon Hunger Task Force, and other committees and work groups. He resigned from the Oregon House of Representatives in 2018, when appointed to fill the Oregon State Senate District 30 seat. While in the Senate, he served on Finance and Revenue, Judiciary, Energy, and the Joint Tax Credits committees, among others. He resigned from the Oregon State Senate on January 2, 2020, to campaign full-time for Oregon’s Second Congressional District.

On November 3, 2020, Bentz was elected to represent Oregon’s Second Congressional District. Oregon’s Second Congressional District includes all or part of 20 counties across northern, eastern, central, and southern Oregon.