The nation’s largest detention center built to house unaccompanied immigrant children officially shut its doors earlier this month—but not for long. In a report last week, the Trump administration indicated it is planning to reopen the center as soon as six weeks from now, leading immigrant rights advocates and members
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., who co-authored the Volcker Rule with former Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., released the following statement Tuesday after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation voted to pass a new rulemaking he said is designed to gut the Volcker Rule, with other Trump administration financial regulators expected to follow suit soon. Merkley said
Every year, I hold a town hall in every Oregon county. From coast to grasslands, gorge to high desert, blue to red, there is one consistent issue that Oregonians ask me to address: the price of prescription drugs. Albert, in Linn County, pays $800 per dose for his wife’s immunosuppressant
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) on Friday asked Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials to clarify reports that pregnant asylum-seekers have been forced to wait out their immigration cases in Mexican border cities. Merkley wrote DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari, asking why six late-term pregnant women were included in the Migrant Protection Protocols
UPPER KLAMATH LAKE – Two species of Klamath Basin sucker have been dying before they can reach adulthood, and U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley is showing continued interest in expediting efforts already underway to save the fish species. Merkley was in Klamath Falls Monday, touring facilities aimed at rearing and releasing
Senator Jeff Merkley visited Klamath Falls on Monday to tour the rearing ponds at Gone Fishing and the floating net pens on Upper Klamath Lake. This was Merkley’s first visit to tour the facilities following his Sucker Recovery Event held last fall. Following the summit, Merkley secured $3 million in
NEWPORT — Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced Friday that $26,205 had been awarded the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for whale conservation research efforts — but that’s only the first installment of an NOAA grant that totals $278,856. “Oregon’s breathtaking coast makes countless contributions to the spirit
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley recently announced a $26,205 federal grant awarded to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for its program to improve environmental conditions for whales off the Oregon Coast by reducing the risk of whales entangled in fishing gear. “Oregon has a proud history
REDMOND, OR — A Central Oregon couple who spent a week detained by Malaysian officials at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport is headed back to the United States. 18-year-old Samantha Henry’s dad, Aaron, says hearing the news his daughter, and her 22-year-old boyfriend Will Lucas, were being extradited back to the
Oregon Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, both Democrats, are trying to give businesses a needed break. They want to pass legislation to protect temporarily businesses from a whole new set of laws that would force them to collect retroactive sales taxes. The trigger for the legislation goes back to
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