A proposal that could open up oil drilling in Oregon and Washington has a lot of people asking questions. Where might it happen? What’s the likelihood of it happening? The Trump Administration’s proposal this week to open up previously protected areas to offshore drilling for oil has drawn harsh criticism
PORTLAND, Ore. – Gov. Kate Brown, Sen. Jeff Merkley and Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Suzanne Bonamici on Friday called on Congress to stop holding hostage the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and to pass the bipartisan bill that would fund the program. “Children’s health care is too important to play political games with,” Governor Brown said.
Gov. Kate Brown and three of Oregon’s members of Congress led a rally Friday that called on Republican leaders to re-up funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The program provides health insurance for more than 9 million children nationwide — and one in 10 in Oregon. Congressional leaders let
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions indicated Thursday morning that he intended to rescind the Cole Memo, an Obama-era policy that codified the federal government’s position that states can determine their own reasonable and responsible regulations on cannabis growth, sales and use. The policy change could turn back the clock in
This year has been one of stark partisanship, with rhetoric from both sides of the aisle seeking to stress differences between Democrats and Republicans. But one thing I thought we all could agree on is that we need to do everything we can to look out for our children. I
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bill to place thousands of acres of federal lands into the hands of Oregon Native American tribes passed through the U.S. Senate and is headed for President Donald Trump’s desk. The Western Oregon Tribal Fairness Act is bipartisan legislation created to address western Oregon tribal priorities.
About 100 of President Donald Trump’s nominees have been kicked back to the White House, prolonging an unusually high number of vacancies across his administration and escalating the Senate’s long-running nomination wars. While the Senate agreed to keep roughly 150 of Trump’s picks for consideration next year, it refused to
EUGENE, Ore. – As the Federal Communications Commission weighed whether to repeal Obama-era Net Neutrality rules, an Oregonian filed a comment online in support of scrapping the rules. “The FCC’s Net Neutrality rules were written in the Obama White House by political staff and Tech Industry special interests who overruled
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley said on Monday that someone used his identity to submit fake comments against net neutrality to the Federal Communications Commission. “Turns out someone impersonated me during the … comment period – further proof of forged comments in this process,” Merkley wrote in a tweet. “We need
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said Friday that President Trump‘s refusal to rule out a potential pardon for former national security adviser Michael Flynn was “just wrong.” “It certainly does seem inappropriate,” Merkley said on CNN. “I mean, to talk about a pardon for somebody who is in the middle of working with the FBI, cooperating with
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