The year has already shaped up to be a flashpoint for environmental issues. President Donald Trump pledged to withdraw the US from the Paris agreement, a move which led mayors, governors, leading academics, and some of the biggest businesses in the US to start a movement to remain by the Paris Agreement pledges even
Three members of Oregon’s congressional delegation spent part of their Fourth of July recess rallying opposition to the latest Republican-drafted effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and Rep. Peter DeFazio took to the podium Wednesday morning at the Wayne Morse
PORTLAND, Ore. — Three of Oregon’s leading lawmakers rallied Thursday against the health care bill put forward by Republican senators. U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici came armed with examples of how they say the new bill would hurt Oregonians. “In this bill, it
Oregon leaders on Monday were struggling to understand all the effects the proposed U.S. Senate Republicans’ health care bill would have on the state, but initial estimates are grim. If the cost-cutting bill were enacted, 22 million more Americans would be uninsured in 2026 than under current law, according to
It’s time again for Senate Democrats to burn the midnight oil. Senate Democrats launched yet another night of floor speeches on Monday night castigating the GOP’s plan to repeal and replace Obamacare — a talk-a-thon led by Sens. Patty Murray of Washington and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii that ran several
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is pushing for a vote this week on Senate Republican health care plan. Twenty-two million Americans would lose health care coverage in the next 10 years under a Senate Republican health care draft plan released last week, the Congressional Budget Office said in a long-awaited report released
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) told MSNBC on Friday that President Trump’s tweet threatening James Comey with possible “tapes” of their meeting was “absolutely” an attempt to intimidate the former FBI director. Asked by MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace if he agreed with Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) that the tweet constituted something more than a bluff, Merkley
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Washington (CNN) At a closed-door meeting with senators last week President Donald Trump reportedly called the House’s health care plan “mean,” and now Democrats are taking the President to task for his words, calling the Senate GOP bill “meaner.” “If that bill was mean, this one is downright diabolical” Sen. Jeff Merkley,
For weeks, a small group of Republicans in the U.S. Senate have been secretly crafting health-insurance legislation in response to the House of Representatives bill that President Donald Trump recently called “mean.” Now the Senate GOP’s effort is out in the open: the bill wouldn’t repeal the Democrats’ controversial 2010 Affordable Care
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