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Leader Schumer and Senators Klobuchar, Wyden, and Merkley Lead Entire Democratic Caucus in Urging Leader Thune to Change Course on Proposed Cuts to Health Care and Food Assistance
WASHINGTON – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Ranking Member Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron
Merkley, Panetta Lead the Charge to Protect Monarch Butterflies
Lawmakers also introduce bipartisan resolution marking National Pollinator Week Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-19) today teamed
Wyden, Merkley, Crapo, Risch Celebrate Senate Passage of Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization
Washington D.C.— U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, both D-Ore., along with U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, both R-Idaho, celebrated today’s unanimous
Merkley, Capito Push to Improve Recycling Nationwide with New Bipartisan Bill
Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley partnered with West Virginia’s U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public
Merkley: Supreme Court Has Failed to Protect Trans Kids, Keep Politicians Out of Exam Room
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley—leader of the Equality Act—today issued the following statement after the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v.
Merkley: Trump’s Withdrawal from Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement Fails Our Communities
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration withdrawing from the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement (RCBA):
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The Republican budget bill abandons working families to line the pockets of billionaires.
Congress has the power to declare war, not the President! Trump cannot drag us into another war.
We can’t sleepwalk into authoritarianism.
Merkley on Noem's Claims not to know Padilla: Enormously Uninformed or Enormously Deceptive | MSNBC
Senator Alex Padilla is asking the questions we ALL want the answers to, and I stand with him.
Merkley Demands Answers for Senator Alex Padilla's Forcible Removal from DHS Press Conference
Passing the GENIUS Act as-is puts a Congressional rubber stamp on Trump's blatant crypto corruption.
Merkley SLAMS Trump Crypto Corruption: “Open Sale of the Government”
Trump Forest Service Head ADMITS 1,400 Fire-Certified Employees have been PUSHED OUT
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UPDATE: More Provisions in Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill” Are Subject to Byrd Rule, Parliamentarian Advises
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NEW: Several Additional Provisions in Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill” Are Subject to 60-Vote Threshold, According to Senate Parliamentarian
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Another Republican President has taken us into another Middle East war, despite Trump claiming to be a President who would choose peace.
And has done so in violation of the Constitution—which requires Congressional authorization for war.
All to accomplish a mission—disabling…
Our public lands are NOT FOR SALE!
I’m a HELL NO on the disastrous GOP plan to sell off our natural treasures.
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