Meet Janelle

A mother of four children and a small businesswoman, Janelle Bynum understands our challenges and works hard to fix them in Congress. It’s what she’s always done.

The daughter of teachers, Janelle’s parents taught her that education was the key to a better, safer world. It didn’t take long for Janelle to put that ideal into practice. She earned scholarships and put herself through school, earning her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and her Master’s degree in Business Administration.

After finishing her education, Janelle, and her husband Mark, ran their family’s small businesses, operating four restaurants in our community. In her restaurants, Janelle embodied those ideals taught to her early in life, mentoring her employees, providing scholarships to continue their education and encouraging them to dream big.

That same promise of a good education is also what motivated Janelle to serve in the Oregon State House. She saw her kids not getting the support and Oregonians not getting the representation they deserve. While serving as a State Representative, Janelle delivered strong bipartisan results, spearheading efforts to add $43 billion and over 6,000 jobs to Oregon's economy, invest in education, and increase access to the ballot box.

Janelle’s work has always been about showing up and fighting for the next generation. In Congress, she’s doing just that.

Now, in Congress, she’s fighting back against the cruelty, extremism, and incompetence we’re seeing from the White House, while delivering real results for Oregonians. Her mission is simple: to lower costs for healthcare and housing, create jobs, and ensure every kid gets a good education. And she’s willing to work with anyone to do it – that’s why she's introduced 18 bipartisan bills and passed 5 of them through the House.

She's also made hearing from Oregonians a top priority, having held over 25 town halls since being elected. Janelle’s not afraid to stand up to anyone to ensure Oregonians get ahead.

Janelle is delivering on the issues that matter most for our families:

• A “K-30” platform to ensure hard work translates to opportunity

  • Janelle is fighting for young Americans through bipartisan efforts aimed at improving education, creating jobs, and lowering the cost of housing.

• Fighting for affordability

  • Janelle is focused on lowering costs, from groceries to housing to healthcare, and pushing back against the Trump Administration’s efforts to gut the Affordable Care Act.

• Standing up to Trump and ICE

  • Janelle has been clear that she will not tolerate a federal takeover of our communities. She has fearlessly called out the Administration’s lies and called out Donald Trump’s version of ICE for what it is: a collection of goons who are rounding up people based on the color of their skin and kidnapping them off the streets.