CLINT, Texas (AP) — Lawmakers on Friday were calling for swift change after reports this week of more than 250 infants, children and teens being held inside a windowless Border Patrol station, struggling to care for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation. It’s a scene that is being
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, said in a conference call with Oregon reporters Thursday he’s still not sure why the Trump administration called recently for all 25 Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers to be shut down or privatized. But he’s glad to see the change of heart from the administration,
WASHINGTON – Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement Thursday regarding the current situation with Iran and the Senate’s debate of the National Defense Authorization Act. Merkley is teaming up with Senators Tom Udall (D-NM) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) to push for a proposed amendment
Bipartisan lawmakers on the House Foreign Affairs Committee joined forces Thursday to advance legislation slapping new sanctions on Myanmar’s military regime for its violent purge of ethnic minorities. The proposal, sponsored by Reps. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Steve Chabot (R-Ohio), is designed to punish Myanmar’s leaders for their long-running campaign of brutality and displacement
Washington (CNN)The Trump administration is reversing its decision to end the US Forest Service program that trains low-income, rural students how to respond to national emergencies, after bipartisan backlash from Congress. In a letter to Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta back in May, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced his agency’s intent to “terminate
Merkley Announces Trump Administration Will Keep CCCs Open, including one near Yachats. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following a conversation with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley today announced that federal Civilian Conservation Center (CCC) Job Corps sites, including the one near Yachats, will remain open and operated by the
Federal leaders have reversed a decision to close nine Civilian Conservation Center Job Corps sites and transfer additional centers to contact operators. Following a conversation with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Wednesday, June 19, Sen. Jeff Merkley announced that the centers would remain open under operation by the U.S. Forest
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) today announced that U.S. Forest Service vocation training programs for disadvantaged youth will not be shut down. That means nine Civilian Conservation Centers across the nation, including one in Estacada, Ore. will continue to teach students wildfire management and rural job skills. And, remaining CCCs that didn’t
WASHINGTON – Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and Reps. Peter DeFazio and Greg Walden on Tuesday sought federal disaster assistance for spring storms that hit Curry, Douglas, Grant, Linn, Umatilla and Wheeler counties over a two-week stretch in April. The bipartisan letter from the Oregon lawmakers to the White House
Adding fuel to the growing outrage over the Sackler family’s role in the opioid crisis, a senator wants the Smithsonian to remove the Sackler name from its Asian art museum, saying the family behind the drug company that produces OxyContin “has no place in taxpayer-funded public institutions.” Sen. Jeff Merkley
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