Oregon Second District Congressman Cliff Bentz was named the Ranking Member on the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.  It places the freshman Republican congressman in a position to weigh in on matters concerning the country’s water resources, federal irrigation projects, hydroelectric power, interstate water issues, and fisheries management.  Bentz says he has spent more than half of his professional and political career working on water issues as they relate to agriculture and communities, adding they are feeling the effects of a “real and regulatory drought.”