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Families seeking asylum in the United States who were separated by the Trump administration said that while they are honored to attend the State of the Union speech before Congress on Tuesday evening, seeing the president will remind them of their recent suffering. “It’s an honor to be able to attend,” Yeni

Oregon’s U.S. senators on Friday introduced a pair of bills targeting foreign consulates that help their citizens escape criminal prosecution in the U.S., a response to revelations that the Saudi Arabian government provided assistance to students who ran afoul of the law and fled before trial. Citing an Oregonian/OregonLive investigation, Jeff Merkley

Washington (CNN)Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon announced Friday that he will bring a mother and daughter who were separated at the US-Mexico border last year as guests for President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address next week. The decision is intended to “highlight the human suffering caused by

COOS COUNTY — U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley is going after robocalls that are scamming people out of money and identities. In a press release on Wednesday, Jan. 23, Merkley put pressure on the Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, questioning whether enough is being done to protect consumers from “predatory robocalls, including

Washington (CNN)Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley said Monday that he asked the FBI to open a perjury investigation into Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen last week because “it’s time for some real accountability.” “I am just sick and tired of this administration lying to the American people, lying to Congress, doing

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Democratic U.S. senator on Friday asked the FBI to probe whether Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen committed perjury when she testified to Congress that the administration never had a policy to separate immigrant families. Senator Jeff Merkley has been an outspoken critic of the Trump administration’s

WASHINGTON – Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., introduced a bill this week they say would allow Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices for the 43 million seniors who participate in Medicare Part D. “Medicare should be able to use its massive bargaining power to lower seniors’ drug prices. It’s high

Decades after the U.S. stopped institutionalizing kids because large and crowded orphanages were causing lasting trauma, it is happening again. The federal government has placed most of the 14,300 migrant toddlers, children and teens in its care in detention centers and residential facilities packed with hundreds, or thousands, of children.

Senator Merkley made a trip to the US- Mexico border this weekend, leading a group of legislators to see firsthand the families being held in government camps. He describes thousands waiting in hopes of having their asylum claims to be heard. Merkley and other legislators held a press conference Saturday

Washington (CNN)Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley is joining forces with a Republican congressman to stop Agriculture Department researchers from euthanizing kittens used in their work. Merkley told CNN he introduced on Wednesday a Senate version of the KITTEN Act — officially, the “Kittens in Traumatic Testing Ends Now Act of 2018.”