Both of Oregon’s senators have demanded an explanation after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in plain clothes entered a home in Portland without a warrant and arrested a man who was later released. The arrest of the man, who was working on a renovation at the house on Thursday, was
Ashland, Ore.– Sunday, Senator Jeff Merkley joined a panel of speakers in denouncing hate groups in the Rogue Valley. The goal — to encourage people to stand up for one another and use words instead of fists. “Hatred and prejudice are on the rise across the country in reaction to
PORTLAND, Ore. – An Oregon man says Immigration Customs and Enforcement agents illegally entered a home he was working on and detained his coworker by “mistake.” George Cardenas was part of a crew working on the Portland home and shot video of the incident, which happened on Thursday. The video shows
Sen. Jeff Merkley improved his oyster-shucking skills last week. The U.S. senator visited Pacific Seafood in Bay City and Hampton Lumber Company in Tillamook on a tour of local businesses Oct. 11. “We love having our representatives here visiting us and see what we do and why we do it,”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Democrats vowed on Tuesday to fight a measure expected to be slipped into budget legislation that would open Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Reserve to oil and gas drilling, saying it would destroy one of earth’s remaining paradises. Northern Alaska’s ANWR is a wilderness about the
Donald Trump was expected to refuse to recertify the Iran nuclear deal. He did that on Friday. But the president did much more than signal his personal disapproval of Tehran’s compliance with an agreement that the Obama administration and international allies reached in 2015 to avert the development of nuclear weapons by
The Environmental Protection Agency said it “remains committed to working with all parties” involved in the $1.05 billion plan to cleanup the Portland Harbor Superfund site. The EPA’s acting administrator in the Pacific Northwest, Michelle Pirzadeh, expressed the federal agency’s support for the state, tribes and other partners in a
Several Oregon and California senators are pushing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association to immediately support Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and California Gov. Jerry Brown’s catastrophic regional fishery disaster declaration. The disaster declarations have been pending since May after nearly 200 miles of coastline in Oregon and California were closed
PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) – An important application process for the children of undocumented immigrants has now expired. The deadline for these individuals to renew their status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA, was Thursday. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley were in Portland Friday talking
WILLIAM WEHRUM IS the Trump administration’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Air and Radiation. “Bill,” the first line of his bio at his law firm, Hunton & Williams, boasts, “is well known for his thorough grasp of environmental issues.” In his Senate confirmation hearing this week, Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.,
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