Elizabeth Furse: Difference between revisions

|title=Rep. Elizabeth Furse says three terms are enough|date=July 4, 1997|newspaper=[[Northwest Labor Press]]|url=https://nwlaborpress.org/1997/furse.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200708095215/https://nwlaborpress.org/1997/furse.html|archive-date=July 8, 2020|url-status=dead|access-date=2021-04-24}}</ref> defeating businessman [[Bill Witt]] during a year when the [[Republican Revolution]] produced a 54-seat gain for her opponent's party. In 1996, Furse and Congressman [[George Nethercutt]] (R-WA) co-founded the [[Congressional Diabetes Caucus]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read/1997/10/01/969.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730054033/http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read/1997/10/01/969.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-30 |date=1997-10-01 |title=Kudos to the Congressional Caucus |publisher=[[Diabetes Health]] magazine |author1=S. Robert Levine |quote=The Congressional Diabetes Caucus, which includes 94 members of the House, including outspoken diabetes advocate Speaker Newt Gingrich, was created by Congressman George Nethercutt (R-WA) and Congresswoman Elizabeth Furse (D-OR) in the spring of 1996. }}</ref> and authored legislation which passed in 1997 to improve coverage of [[diabetes]] education and supplies in the [[Medicare (United States)|Medicare]] program. The Congressional Diabetes Caucus has since grown to be the largest health-related Caucus in Congress.