Welcome to Friday’s Overnight Health Care. More vaping fallout: Walmart is taking a stance and will not longer sell e-cigarettes. And on Capitol Hill, senators want FDA to enact a near total ban immediately. Also on drug pricing, at least one House Democrat wants changes to Speaker Pelosi’s bill. We’ll
SALEM — As appropriations bills get ready to hit the Senate floor, a $2 million appropriation for research on cannabidiol could guide Oregon farmers growing the crop. Cannabidiol, known more commonly as CBD, is a main component of hemp, which is on track to be a billion dollar crop for
A bipartisan group of senators is urging acting Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Ned Sharpless to immediately pull most e-cigarettes off the market, including market leader Juul. Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., sent Sharpless a letter Friday pushing the FDA to remove all
Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley announced provisions in bills coming out of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture and Rural Development that will impact Oregon and its rural communities Thursday and briefed Oregon media outlets on local affects. Merkley expects several of the bills to make it through the Senate floor
Sen. Jeff Merkley says he’s advocating for millions of dollars in research grants that will benefit two of Southern Oregon’s top crops. The Democrat from Oregon said he’s pushing for a $5 million research grant into the way wildfire smoke affects wine grapes, and $4.5 million to research methods to
WASHINGTON – Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., joined Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., this week to reintroduce a resolution in response to the Trump administration’s efforts to roll back federal fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards they said are designed to fight climate change and protect Americans’ access to
Two crops common to Southern Oregon, wine grapes and hemp, were the focus of a conference call with Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and reporters on Thursday. When wildfires filled the skies of southern Oregon and northern California with smoke last year, some vintners lost customers out of a fear that
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley has announced that the Senate Appropriations Committee included $8.5 million in the Department of Defense appropriations bill to train National Guard members to fight wildfires. A release from Merkley said the funding is a $1.5 million increase over the last two years, when Merkley first secured
On Monday a bipartisan group of senators from the western U.S. introduced legislation they claim will provide long-term financial security for rural counties. A release from the office of Senator Ron Wyden said the bill would reauthorize the Payments in Lieu of Taxes program for ten years. Wyden, along with
UMATILLA COUNTY — Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced this week that $150 million is available to certain counties hit by severe winter storms and flooding this year, including Umatilla County. During a visit to the Pendleton Round-Up on Friday, Merkley told the East Oregonian that he didn’t know exactly how
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