PORTLAND, Ore. — U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, made a point Monday to try and win over President Donald Trump’s strongest base of supporters — rural Americans — by pointing out things in the president’s proposed budget that the senator says may hurt them. “He wants to cut the Coast Guard;
Under pressure from Oregon’s congressional leaders, the Portland VA said Monday that it has temporarily stopped removing people from a program that pays spouses of disabled veterans to be caregivers. Daniel Herrigstad, a Portland VA spokesman, said the suspension affected one veteran whose eligibility was being actively reviewed. The halt
Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley didn’t mince words in attacking the change in rules put in place by Senate Republicans to push through the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch, calling the move a “judicial coup.” Democratic lawmakers successfully filibustered the nomination Thursday morning, but it was a foregone conclusion.
Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley took to the Senate floor Tuesday evening and spoke through the night in protest of Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court, ending his marathon speech Wednesday morning. Mr. Merkley, a Democrat who was one of the earliest to come out in opposition to Judge Gorsuch
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) stepped onto the Senate floor around 6:45 pm Tuesday night to begin a marathon speech in protest of President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. Fifteen and a half hours later, he left. “By stealing a Supreme Court seat for the first time in American history, the
Jeff Merkley made Senate history after a more than 15-hour speech against Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch that ended at 10:13 a.m. on Wednesday. But his iron-man fortitude notwithstanding, the Oregon senator’s stemwinder will ultimately do nothing to stop Gorsuch’s confirmation. It will, however, raise Merkley’s profile significantly. He was
The junior senator from Oregon orders the peppered chicken and cheese omelet and a Coke. The server says they only have Pepsi. That’s fine. Sitting across from Merkley in the low black booth, I order the same $3.25 grilled cheese sandwich President Obama had in 2012, when he hit the Gateway
WASHINGTON – Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., introduced legislation Wednesday to block immigration agents from stalking sensitive locations like schools, hospitals and religious institutions without prior approval and exigent circumstances. The Protecting Sensitive Locations Act codifies the Department of Homeland Security’s existing policies and expands on those policies to
Even before President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to serve on the Supreme Court in January, I knew that I would oppose his appointment. By stealing a Supreme Court seat for the first time in American history, the Senate Majority is profoundly politicizing our highest court and deeply damaging its
Growing up, my family was like a lot of Oregon families: My dad was a millwright and my mom stayed at home. At that time, a single working income could buy a three-bedroom ranch house, an annual camping trip, and a dinner out a couple times a year. We had
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