About 100 people filled the newly refurbished South Fork Grange Hall in Losting on friday morning to participate in U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley’s 407th town hall meeting. Prior to his public meeting, Merkley spent about 30 minutes listing to and taking with local leaders, including representatives of county government, law
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced Thursday that Homes for Good, based in Eugene, and the Warm Springs Housing Authority will receive U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funding to help economically empower families living in federally subsidized housing by facilitating access to supportive
The benches lining the middle of the South Albany High School cafeteria filled up slowly over the course of an hour on Saturday morning with mothers in red shirts demanding action on gun control, education lobbyists, young families and students all vying for the chance at having their ticket called.
Calling the event a “great American tradition” and a “good antidote to the friction in our society,” U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley spoke to about 60 people Thursday at the Baker City Senior Center. Merkley, Oregon’s junior senator to fellow Democrat Ron Wyden, spent most of the hour-long town hall, which
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR and Reps. Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-20), Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24), Rodney Davis (R-IL-12), and Rob Woodall (R-GA-7) led the introduction Thursday of the Monarch Action, Recovery, and Conservation of Habitat (MONARCH) Act. This bipartisan, bicameral legislation would provide urgent protections for the struggling western monarch butterfly,
A group of Democratic senators is criticizing a Trump administration plan that could expand oil and gas development on a reserve in Arctic. “With the Arctic warming ‘faster than any other place on Earth,’ according to scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, removing existing protections in this region is reckless
On Wednesday, Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced legislation to place a moratorium on the use of facial recognition by the federal government or with federal funds—unless Congress passed regulations for the technology. The Ethical Use of Facial Recognition Act aims to create a 13 member congressional commission representing
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, will hold nine town halls across the state this week, including one in Eugene. The town halls will be public forums for Merkley to answer citizens’ questions and hear from them about the area’s challenges. Merkley is scheduled to host the Lane County town hall
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley received a national award last week for his efforts to save Wolf Creek Job Corps and the other 24 Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers like it across the country. Merkley, and Oregon Democrat who grew up in Myrtle Creek, received the Franklin D. Roosevelt Service and
WASHINGTON — U.S Sen. Jeff Merkley next week will hold town all meetings throughout Oregon, including in Elgin, Lostine and Baker City. The public events run Feb. 19-22 in Polk, Yamhill, Malheur, Baker, Wallowa, Union, Umatilla, Linn and Lane counties. Merkley during the town halls will update constituents on his
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