Oregon Second District Congressman Greg Walden and Washington Third District Congresswoman Jamie Herrera Beutler joined more than a dozen other representatives at a press conference calling for a swift resolution to the labor slowdown affecting ports up and down the West Coast.  Walden outlined the disastrous consequences the crisis has caused for farmers and manufacturers in Oregon, like tree fruit growers in the Columbia Gorge and potato and onion growers in Eastern Oregon.   Walden also announced that he has cosponsored a Congressional resolution expressing the sense of the U.S. House that the port operators and longshoreman union should swiftly conclude their contract negotiations and that, if they do not, the President should use all tools at his authority to intervene in the matter and end the dispute.